DNS history

The answer to "what changed right before it broke?"

Nameservers, A and MX records are recorded every hour, plus any record you add. When a site goes down after a migration, the history shows what changed and when, without anyone having to remember.

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DNS tab with current records and a history of changes

NS, A and MX by default

NS and MX are asked at the zone apex, found through DNS itself rather than guessed from a list of suffixes. Add TXT, CNAME or any record you care about.

Changes, not snapshots

Records are sorted before comparing: servers rotate their order and an unsorted list would look like a change on every query.

Records history, never alerts

A DNS change is almost always planned, by the person an alert would wake. If a change really breaks the site, uptime monitoring catches it through consensus.

DNS history is a record, not an alarm. If you need an alert on a specific record changing, tell us. It would be an opt-in, not a default.

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