2018 did not disappoint for the No-IP team. We had lots of fun and celebrated a bunch of successes this year. Learn about everything that No-IP did.
Plus Managed DNS Updates
This year, we launched new pricing and plans for our Plus Managed DNS product. The new plans are a bit different than the past pricing model of our Plus Managed DNS service. Instead of purchasing DNS for individual zones (domains), we migrated all customers to a DNS plan that allows them to add and remove DNS zones to your account without going through the billing system each time you want to add a new zone. We also changed the way we discount our Domain Registration when bundled with our DNS product. You now receive a $10 discount on your first Domain Registration and $5 off each Domain Registration up to your DNS Plan Level. For example, if you are subscribed to our 10 Zone Package and purchase 10 Domain Registrations, you’ll receive a $55 discount on the list price of Domain Registrations. The new zone-based plans also offer one single renewal date. This means you don’t have to renew zones with different expirations dates multiple times throughout the year. Learn more about our new tier packages and pricing.
Moved to Subscription-Based Services
No-IP has partnered with an industry-leading subscription management platform to improve our billing system and pricing capabilities. For the last 20 years, we have been utilizing our own homegrown billing system to process payments. It has worked well, with a few hiccups over time, but as we look to the future, we realize that we would rather spend our time building great products and enhancements. To scale for the future and quickly release new products, we realized that we needed to rework our billing system. Subscriptions were the answer. We haven’t fully migrated to our subscription-based services yet, but we truly believe that this move will streamline our services and billing for our customers while letting our engineers focus on the things that matter, like our network and creating amazing new products. Speaking of focusing on our network…
Infrastructure Updates
This year our Infrastructure Team worked to improve the speed, performance, and resiliency of our DNS network. Our DNS infrastructure is utilized by millions of people and currently processes over 83 billion queries a month. Our engineers have dramatically improved the performance of our DNS infrastructure. We have expanded our Anycast DNS network further across the globe, reducing resolution time and expanding capacity. Notably, we’ve added more capacity in Europe, Asia, South America, and South Africa. Learn more about our Infrastructure Updates
Website Updates
We have spent the last few months trying to focus on streamlining our user experience by updating the My No-IP section of our site. We have moved everything over from our legacy management system to make things easier for our customers. In the near future, we will be adding additional features that will add extra value to our current offerings.
Hosted Our Fifth Annual Giving Thanks, Food and Toy Drive to Benefit The Children’s Cabinet
We hosted our Fifth Annual Giving Thanks Food and Toy Drive which benefitted the Children’s Cabinet, a local non-profit organization that is dedicated to helping the children of Northern Nevada. We donated over $4,000 worth of food and toys. It is awesome to work with a group of people that believe in giving back to the community.
While this year has been one of our best yet, we are even more excited about what the future holds for No-IP and can’t wait to share with you some of the new products we plan to offer in the coming months. Since 1999, our customers have been spreading the word about No-IP and the helpful services that we offer. We wouldn’t be where we are today if it weren’t for all of you. Thank you for being loyal customers and choosing No-IP as your Dynamic DNS and Managed DNS provider!