why use 3rd party DNS - eg., ZoneEdit.com?

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Author: Steven M. Klass
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Subject: why use 3rd party DNS - eg., ZoneEdit.com?
On Friday 24 August 2001 12:11 am, the famous David P. Schwartz wrote:

The simplest answer is, most everyone here does not have or lease a dedicated
IP. They are owned by some other conglomaerate (Qwest / Cox). ZoneEdit
allows you to "forward" domain calls to your IP whether it's static or
dynamic.


> Why use a 3rd party DNS like ZoneEdit.com or GraniteCanyon.com rather than
> running your own DNS server? I'm curious what the pros and cons are. (I
> can get the obvious stuff like handling dynamic IPs, but ... is there some
> benefit to letting somebody else handle your DNS lookups?)
>
> -David
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