Edge DNS
DNS that answers before anyone notices
Authoritative DNS on a global anycast network. Queries are answered from 50+ locations in single-digit milliseconds, and record changes go live in under five seconds. Free for up to 50 zones.
Free for everyone with a verified email. No card, no trial clock.
- Anycast locations
- 50+
- Typical resolution
- <10ms
- Global propagation
- <5s
- Up to 50 zones
- $0
How it works
Move a domain in the time it takes to make tea
Keep your registrar and bring your records. Edge checks the delegation for you and starts answering as soon as it's confirmed.
- 01
Create a zone
Add your domain, then import a BIND or JSON zone file. You can also add records by hand, from the CLI or through the API. - 02
Point your nameservers
Your account gets its own nameserver pair. Set them at your registrar; nothing else changes. - 03
Verify and go live
Click verify. We check delegation with a fresh DNS-over-HTTPS lookup and activate the zone instantly.
Included on every account
The DNS you'd pay extra for elsewhere
No plans, no feature gates. Geo-routing, apex aliases and real-time metrics come with the free product.
- See the network
Global anycast
Queries land on the nearest of 50+ locations across 5 continents. Changes in seconds
Edits sync to every location in under five seconds. No 48-hour waits.Geo-routing
Answer by continent, country or sub-region such as US-WEST, on every account.- Record types
Every record type
A to NAPTR, plus ALIAS for pointing your root domain at a hostname. Unique nameservers
A nameserver pair per account, so nobody else can claim your domain.Real-time metrics
Queries, response codes, latency and geography for each zone, minute by minute.- Try a lookup
DNS Examiner
AI analysis of your zone: email auth, CAA, delegation and TTLs, with fixes. API, CLI and agents
Script zones and records, import and export BIND files, or let an agent do it.
Domain security
Nobody else can add your domain
Shared nameservers let anyone who knows your provider try to claim your zone. Edge gives every account its own nameserver pair and activates a zone only when both are delegated to you.
- Six-character ID unique to your account
- Delegation checked over DNS-over-HTTPS, uncached
- Zones stay pending until the registrar agrees
Geo-routing
Send Tokyo visitors to your Tokyo servers, on the free plan
Add regional answers to any A, AAAA or CNAME record. Edge matches the most specific rule for each resolver (sub-region, then country, then continent) and falls back to your default.
- Seven continent codes plus ISO country codes
- Sub-regions such as US-WEST, GB-SCOTLAND, IN-SOUTH
- Edit visually or as JSON in the zone editor
Propagation
Change a record. See it everywhere in seconds.
Record changes are saved instantly and pushed to every location in the background, typically in under five seconds. Cut over a migration or fix a typo without waiting on the network.
- SOA serial bumps automatically on every change
- TTLs from 30 seconds for records that move
- Force an immediate sync from the API
Independently measured
Single-digit milliseconds, measured by someone else
PerfOps measures real users resolving through eight major DNS providers every minute. We publish the live ranking as it stands, including the hours when we are not first.
- Typical resolution
- <10ms
- Anycast answers from the nearest PoP
- Providers benchmarked
- 8
- Including Cloudflare, Route 53, Google and Azure
- Propagation
- <5s
- From save to every location
- Measurement
- RUM
- Real browsers, median per minute
Pricing
DNS is free. Full stop.
The same network paying customers use. Optional add-ons are billed hourly and can be dropped any time.
Edge DNS
Everyone$0/month
Verified email, no card.
- Up to 50 zones
- Unlimited records
- 1M queries per zone, per month
- All record types and geo-routing
- Global anycast network
Add-ons
From $1/month
Opt in per zone or domain. Billed hourly from your prepaid balance.
- Zone backups: $1 per zone a month
- test.network subdomain: $1 a month
- ed.ge short domain: $5 a month
High volume
Custom
Hundreds of millions of queries? We'll price it properly.
- Volume query pricing
- 99.99% SLA
- Named account manager
FAQ
Before you change nameservers
Planning a bigger move? Our DNS team will run it with you.
Is it really free?
Yes. Anyone with a verified email gets up to 50 zones, unlimited records and a million queries per zone each month. There is no card on file and nothing to upgrade.
What happens if a zone goes over a million queries?
The limit is soft. We warn you, and we never block resolution. If you are consistently well over, we will talk about a volume arrangement. Your domains stay up either way.
Do I have to move my domain registration?
No. Keep your registrar and change only the nameservers. If you need a domain without a registrar, test.network and ed.ge subdomains are available as add-ons.
Will there be downtime when I switch?
Not if your records are in place first. Import your zone, check it resolves against your Edge nameservers, then update the registrar. Old and new answer identically while caches expire.
Does Edge DNS support automatic failover?
Not yet. Health-check failover is on the roadmap. Today you can combine geo-routing, multiple A records and API updates from your own monitoring. Our failover guide shows how.
Guides
Set up fast, resilient DNS
Move your first zone today
Add a zone and point your nameservers at Edge. Free for up to 50 zones with unlimited records.
Free for everyone with a verified email. No card required.