I can also vouch for dnsmadeeasy.com. They're anycast, which means
faster DNS for more people. Good pricing ($59 a year).

If you're wanting something a bit more commercial then you can't go
past www.dyn.com (commercial arm of dyndns.org). We use them for a
large site, never had a problem, but you're looking at $200-400 a
month (which is still way cheaper than ultradns/neustar, which would
be $1k a month and up).

Nick

On Jun 7, 10:03 pm, Chris Hope <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been usinghttp://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/since April 2004
>
>
>
> >    - financial stability
>
> > No idea, but they've been around since 2001.
>
> >    - geographical diversity
>
> > Yes
>
> >    - upstream diversity
>
> > As far as I am aware, yes. They have a 99.9999% uptime history. As far as I
>
> am aware there has only been one time they had any downtime in the time I've
> used them and it was only for a short period (something like an hour) and
> only affected some customers. They were very open about it and credited the
> accounts of affected customers.
>
>
>
> >    - good management interface, (*eg, can set up whatever kind of zones or
> >    records I want... even PTRs,*) - i've found it common that some
> >    providers don't allow AAAA records!!!?
>
> > The management interface is OK but there's room for improvement. You can
>
> add AAAA records, although I haven't done this myself. Yes, you can add PTR
> records. You can control TTL for each record too and drop it down to a
> minute (actually you might be able to make it less, can't recall off the top
> of my head).
>
>
>
> >    - contactable and useful support staff, who aren't afraid to put me
> >    through to their engineers when I ask for something tricky or they don't
> >    understand my problem.
>
> > I've only dealt with support when I needed to make a modification to my
>
> billing so don't know about this. They were prompt and efficient to do with
> that though.
>
>
>
>
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>
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>
>
>
> >    - even better if I can pay them in NZD.
>
> > No.
>
> >    - even even better if they have an authoritive server in New Zealand.
>
> > No
> > I have about 40 zones fairly low volume of traffic spread across them all.
>
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>
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>
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