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Originally Posted by NoodleKnight
I've heard of ZoneEdit; The ZoneEdit free service and FreeDNS must have a catch to their "free" services. I looked at godaddy and stargate, my friends have used them previously, so I'm guessing that they're somewhat good, they got good prices and a DNS panel (which should be good, since I'm under dynamic IP).
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The problem with the GoDaddy DNS panel is that there is no way to automatically update it when your IP changes. FreeDNS can update your records with a single URL (which you can fetch with a scheduled task or chron job, or use a program such as FreeDNSupdater), and ZoneEdit probably has something similar.
The ZoneEdit catch is that there is a limit on how much traffic you can generate to the DNS server and how many sub domains you can specify. If you go over the limit, they bill you (although you can cancel instead of paying). However, even moderately busy sites will never generate enough traffic to be billed.
The FreeDNS catch is that it is designed to be a shared DNS, so that people with domains name can allow anyone else to get a sub-domain under it (for example, if I registered sharks.com and used FreeDNS, someone without a domain could get greatwhite.sharks.com and have it point to their web site). You can however mark sites private, which means you have to approve all sub-domains. Also, because it is designed to be shared, you cannot get a wildcard domain. Still, there is no restriction on traffic.
If you donate to FreeDNS, you can get a non-shared stealth domain, which can use wild cards and people won't see at all.