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Comment by dizhn

14 hours ago

It sounds like they made it free for customers for up to 500 domains. It also sounds like they were charging for DNS resolution before? Or is it DNS hosting?

>So, we’ve eliminated DNS query fees entirely.

> Bunny DNS no longer charges for DNS queries and includes free DNS hosting for up to 500 domains per account. There are no query limits, no per-request billing, and no critical features hidden behind enterprise plans. (Yes, that includes smart records and health monitoring too.)

>As with all bunny.net services, accounts using the platform are subject to our standard $1/month minimum spend, but DNS itself no longer incurs any usage-based charges.

Oh..kayy.

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bcye  14 hours ago

They were charging for nameserver hosting. The main draw are some advanced programmatic features for (geo) routing, scripting, etc.

toast0  4 hours ago

> It also sounds like they were charging for DNS resolution before? Or is it DNS hosting?

High end DNS hosting is often billed around the number of queries, number of zones, and number of records, number of special names with fancy features, etc. If you're switching from other DNS hosting, you might not even know what the query volume is, so that's kind of exciting when you need to make a switch.

If you were paying per query and the cost was too high, raising TTLs and consolidating services onto fewer hostnames are pretty achievable ways to reduce the query volume, so it is something you have some control over.

Havoc  12 hours ago

The one dollar thing isn’t as bad in practice as it sounds since it covers everything. Basically invoice minimum across everything so if you’re using the platform in any meaningful way it’s a non issue

  • 1dom  12 hours ago

    The 1 dollar thing, I think, looks exceptionally bad because it shows that what Bunny says can't be taken at face value.

    The fact is we're here because they posted a blog talking about how great they are making DNS free "because a faster internet won’t build itself".

    But now I've just learnt from comments on HN that Bunny DNS isn't free.

    They've lost my trust before they even had it.

    • dizhn  12 hours ago

      Besides $1 means you need to give them your credit card from day one. That's probably the only reason they have that minimum limit to begin with.

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    • dwedge  4 hours ago

      Yeah I ruled them out months ago because it was $1, I saw this post and was about to reconsider them and in my case it's the same as it was.

    • Havoc  11 hours ago

      Huh?

      It literally explains this in the blog post

      > As with all bunny.net services, accounts using the platform are subject to our standard $1/month minimum spend, but DNS itself no longer incurs any usage-based charges.

      Sure seems like you’re trying very hard to find a problem here.

      If you’re not down with their prepaid/$1 model there is always CF.

    • dust-jacket  10 hours ago

      No, this is just a silly take.

      AWS can make data export free, and no-one's going to shout at them that it's not free because it cost money to store the data there in the first place.

      Bunny offers a number of services to paying customers. One of the services, that would previously have incurred a cost, now does not. It is free.

  • dwedge  4 hours ago

    It is bad, because I don't use Bunny for anything else and so this made it paid DNS for me, so when I was migrating DNS a few months ago it made me rule them out.

KingOfCoders  14 hours ago

You had some - millions (?) of - DNS queries free in the past.

  • Scaled  13 hours ago

    I'm glad to hear the queries are free now! I somehow managed to blow through the free quota, not by like a crazy amount but enough that I started thinking in most circumstances why pay extra for basic dns when registrar's is free? Even barely used domains were getting tons of queries. And I only need the fancy failover feature on a couple domains, though it is nice for those for sure. Anyway with this I don't have to worry about it anymore, so thanks Bunny!