CTPFDNS Authoritative DNS

Network

Our own Nameserver Network

One primary in Frankfurt, three secondaries in Amsterdam, London and Los Angeles. Each carries the complete zone and answers independently of the others.

Twelve Points of NameServer Frankfurt, Singapore, Sydney, New York, Los Angeles, London, Amsterdam, Helsinki, São Paulo, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Washington D.C. Frankfurt Frankfurt Singapore Singapore Sydney Sydney New York New York Los Angeles Los Angeles London London Amsterdam Amsterdam Helsinki Helsinki São Paulo São Paulo Hong Kong Hong Kong Tokyo Tokyo Washington D.C. Washington D.C.

The nameservers

Who answers, and from where.

FrankfurtDE

Primary PONS

AmsterdamNL

Secondary PONS

LondonUK

Secondary PONS

Los AngelesUS

Secondary PONS

New YorkUS

Secondary PONS

Washington D.C.US

Secondary PONS

São PauloBR

Secondary PONS

HelsinkiFI

Secondary PONS

SingaporeSG

Secondary PONS

Hong KongHK

Secondary PONS

TokyoJP

Secondary PONS

SydneyAU

Secondary PONS

Regional bundles

Pick the part of the world your users are in.

Twelve Points of NameServer, grouped into four regions. A bundle decides which locations answer first — the zone itself always sits on all four nameservers, so no region can take a domain offline.

Frankfurt Amsterdam London Helsinki Los Angeles New York Washington D.C. São Paulo Tokyo Hong Kong Singapore Sydney

America DNS

  • US
  • BR

Los Angeles · New York · Washington D.C. · São Paulo

Starting from: €4.95 per month
  • Answers preferred from the four American locations
  • North and South America covered from one zone
  • The other eight PONS stay as fallback
  • DNS failover between the regional locations
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Frankfurt Amsterdam London Helsinki Los Angeles New York Washington D.C. São Paulo Tokyo Hong Kong Singapore Sydney

Asia Pacific DNS

  • JP
  • HK
  • SG
  • AU

Tokyo · Hong Kong · Singapore · Sydney

Starting from: €4.95 per month
  • Answers preferred from the four Asia Pacific locations
  • East Asia and Australia covered from one zone
  • The other eight PONS stay as fallback
  • DNS failover between the regional locations
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Frankfurt Amsterdam London Helsinki Los Angeles New York Washington D.C. São Paulo Tokyo Hong Kong Singapore Sydney

Europe DNS

  • DE
  • NL
  • GB
  • FI

Frankfurt · Amsterdam · London · Helsinki

Starting from: €4.95 per month
  • Answers preferred from the four European locations
  • Where our own zones have run for years
  • The other eight PONS stay as fallback
  • DNS failover between the regional locations
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Frankfurt Amsterdam London Helsinki Los Angeles New York Washington D.C. São Paulo Tokyo Hong Kong Singapore Sydney

Global DNS

  • DE
  • NL
  • GB
  • FI
  • US
  • BR
  • JP
  • HK
  • SG
  • AU

All twelve Points of NameServer

Starting from: €12.95 per month
  • Every region at once, answered from the nearest location
  • Weighted answers and several failover targets per region
  • EDNS client subnet support
  • One flat price, no overbilling
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A bundle decides where the answer comes from first — every zone is always held on all four nameservers, so no region can take a domain offline.

How a change reaches the world

A record is written on the primary. The primary raises the serial and sends a NOTIFY to every secondary; each of them fetches the zone by AXFR straight away. Nothing waits for a refresh timer, so a correction is live within seconds rather than at the end of an interval.

change in Frankfurt  →  serial + 1  →  NOTIFY  →  Amsterdam / London / Los Angeles
                                                        ↓
                                                  AXFR, zone current

Why we verify at a secondary

The primary accepting a change proves nothing about what the world sees. A change counts as live here only once a secondary answers it — that is the check we run, and the one we recommend you run too.

Delegation

All four nameservers are listed for a delegated domain, so any single one can answer a query on its own. We switch the delegation at the registrar only after the zone is complete and correct here.

Availability

The nameservers are monitored from outside our own network by UptimeRobot.org, so an outage is not something we discover from our own logs.

What we offer on this network