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  5. DNSimple vs NS1 vs Paw

DNSimple vs NS1 vs Paw

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Overview

DNSimple
DNSimple
Stacks141
Followers121
Votes84
Paw
Paw
Stacks233
Followers277
Votes164
NS1
NS1
Stacks23
Followers49
Votes8

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Detailed Comparison

DNSimple
DNSimple
Paw
Paw
NS1
NS1

DNSimple provides the tools you need to manage your domains. We offer both a carefully crafted web interface for managing your domains and DNS records, as well as an HTTP API with various code libraries and tools. Buy, connect, operate!

Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful. Either you are an API maker or consumer, Paw helps you build HTTP requests, inspect the server's response and even generate client code.

NS1’s intelligent DNS & traffic management platform, with its data driven architecture and unique Filter Chain routing engine, is purpose-built for the most demanding, mission-critical applications on the Internet.

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Organize your Requests, make Groups or sort by Host, Name, etc.;Easily build your requests, enjoy Formatters and Dynamic Values.;See Request and Response infos, headers, and body.;View formatted or raw HTTP Requests and Responses.;JSON Outline Viewer and Editor.;Paw supports OAuth 1 & 2, HTTP Basic Auth and Amazon S3;Paw generates ready-to-use client code
easy-to-use portal; rest api; monitoring; anycasting; global coverage; 100% uptime; 24x7 support; edns-client-subnet; edns; geotargeting; geoip; geodns; gslb; global server load balancing; load shedding; private dns; user management; team management; real-time change publishing; usage alerts; geofencing; routing filters; weighting; sticky sessions; DR; disaster recovery; failover; dns; managed dns
Statistics
Stacks
141
Stacks
233
Stacks
23
Followers
121
Followers
277
Followers
49
Votes
84
Votes
164
Votes
8
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 26
    Simplified dns
  • 21
    Not GoDaddy
  • 14
    Powerful
  • 9
    RESTful API
  • 9
    Good pricing
Pros
  • 46
    Great interface
  • 37
    Easy to use
  • 25
    More stable and performant than the others
  • 16
    Saves endpoints list for testing
  • 13
    Supports environment variables
Cons
  • 3
    It's not free
  • 2
    MacOS Only
Pros
  • 2
    Speed
  • 2
    Filter Chain routing engine
  • 2
    FAST
  • 1
    DNSSec
  • 1
    High-Availability
Cons
  • 1
    Price
Integrations
No integrations availableNo integrations available
New Relic
New Relic
Boundary
Boundary
Pingdom
Pingdom
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch

What are some alternatives to DNSimple, Paw, NS1?

Postman

Postman

It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.

Amazon Route 53

Amazon Route 53

Amazon Route 53 is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating human readable names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other. Route 53 effectively connects user requests to infrastructure running in Amazon Web Services (AWS) – such as an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer, or an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket – and can also be used to route users to infrastructure outside of AWS.

Karate DSL

Karate DSL

Combines API test-automation, mocks and performance-testing into a single, unified framework. The BDD syntax popularized by Cucumber is language-neutral, and easy for even non-programmers. Besides powerful JSON & XML assertions, you can run tests in parallel for speed - which is critical for HTTP API testing.

Appwrite

Appwrite

Appwrite's open-source platform lets you add Auth, DBs, Functions and Storage to your product and build any application at any scale, own your data, and use your preferred coding languages and tools.

Runscope

Runscope

Keep tabs on all aspects of your API's performance with uptime monitoring, integration testing, logging and real-time monitoring.

Google Cloud DNS

Google Cloud DNS

Use Google's infrastructure for production quality, high volume DNS serving. Your users will have reliable, low-latency access to Google's infrastructure from anywhere in the world using our network of Anycast name servers.

Insomnia REST Client

Insomnia REST Client

Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.

RAML

RAML

RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) makes it easy to manage the whole API lifecycle from design to sharing. It's concise - you only write what you need to define - and reusable. It is machine readable API design that is actually human friendly.

Apigee

Apigee

API management, design, analytics, and security are at the heart of modern digital architecture. The Apigee intelligent API platform is a complete solution for moving business to the digital world.

Dyn

Dyn

An all-in-one Managed DNS service for your registered domain names. Dyn DNS is the perfect solution for your domain name’s DNS needs, whether it is for personal or business use. It gives you complete control over your DNS zone and its associated DNS records, complete with a simple DNS management web interface.

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