NS1 Reviews

It's quite efficient to use and superior to other solutions or products in the market within the same price range with many free courses provided by IBM on their website.

Well it's not the easiest to use but has many tech notes online and the interface could be more user friendly with a different color scheme but not very bad.

It's great for network agility and hybrid cloud environments as everyone is heading to digitalization and migration to the cloud

What really impressed me about NS1 is its robust API. Not only can you easily add/delete/modify DNS entries, it also handles complex configurations and user management. Using the API we are able to make hundreds of DNS changes daily on over 1000 domains. It's low latency and high reliability gives us the peace of mind so that DNS is not something we need to worry about.

The only downside i've seen is the GUI doesn't always update after a lot of usage. I would like to see a little more granularity in the changelog API to filter on a zone or user.

Management of thousands of zone files with hundreds of updates every day. Being able to view our statistics down to the individual entry and advanced features like geo-fencing and Aliasing.

It's rock-stable, very fast and easy to use. In addition it has a very flexible api which you can use to do almost anything with a REST call and automate the service depending on your needs. Also, you can give very granular permissions on users.

Pricing is also very attractive

Sometimes, actions in the GUI are seem unneccesarily complicated and can lead to confusion. Some UX improvements would be needed to fix these. It probably depends a bit on user expections though.

It solves the availability and performacne issues we had for our external (customer facing) DNS in the past. We switched over to NS1 for that part and never looked back.

I use a mix of Azure resources and home network resources - where my IP address changes every month or two. NS1 takes care my needs perfectly in both use cases. They have easy to use automation so I can keep my system up to date when my home IP address changes. Manual changes are also easy to do - their web UI makes it easy to add/update/delete all of the various record types as needed. I absolutely love not having to use the DNS services that my domain provider makes available - makes changing domain providers super easy.

I haven't found a single issue that fits my dislike list. Even when I have had issues, customer service was right there to help iron things out. Makes choosing a DNS service provider an easy one.

Domain and DNS service separation as I mentioned above - makes it very easy to use different domain name services while still getting great DNS services - this makes it easy for me to choose the lowest price for domain name purchasing and not compromising DSN services.

Easy to use interface. Logically laid out and solid API interface with through documentation

Pricing is a little on the higher side especially if you're unable to leverage all of the features

Managing externally facing DNS and offloading vanity domain redirections outside of our datacenter

We were initially worried about using NS1 as we expected the price to be too much for a business that is not yet focusing attention on its DNS. NS1 was able to come around and provide an agreement that was perfect for our light usage.

We find nothing we dislike since the product is so solid. I would like to see SSO on the lower-tier plans, but it is not the world's end. We used to have issues with the login experience and frequent logouts, but things have significantly improved.

NS1 is helping us solve a simple problem. We have multiple domains, yet only one leading brand site having the ability to forward all domains to a single domain is such a simple yet awesome thing. We also enjoy seeing the geographic zones of users visiting our sites.

We have really enjoyed NS1's smart application control that is applied to our domains. As a large company, we have multiple domains and the ability to align the settings and DNS across each is amazing.

Overall we have really enjoyed the NS1 platform and it gets the job done, but at times it seems the platform is outdated or does not always meet the visual needs or metrics we need.

They are solving the DNS and traffic configuration policies we want to ensure consistency across the board. It allows consistent security policies and ease of management for global changes.

I have been hosting since 1997 and NS1 the best I have come across. 24/7 support, reliable servers, fair pricing. What more can you ask for?

New Cpanel pricing. This is not to be blamed on NS1.

Fast support 24/7 in plain English.

No down, realtime dns managment , easy to use

nothing Maybe the price for pulsar solution

load balancing

Support for all types of DNS records and setups, including ALIAS records. Very responsive customer support.

Somewhat stingy free tier. I know they have to make money, but I would have liked to see 1M queries/mo in the developer plan, rather than just 500k. That's only one query every 3 seconds on average.

NS1 has slightly sped up my website's initial load times, due to the fast DNS query and the ALIAS record support. Also, their DNS is published more quickly than my registrar's DNS.