Boost reliability and elevate user experience with IBM NS1 Connect
Accelerate and safeguard your DNS performance
IBM NS1 Connect delivers a fully managed cloud DNS service with anycast routing, robust APIs, DDoS defense, HTTPS redirection, and uptime monitoring. Maximize performance, minimize downtime, and stay secure with automated failover, secondary DNS support and real-time alerts.
Key features
Global anycast DNS
Minimized DNS latency and improved application performance with a managed DNS backbone designed for peak global performance.
- Delivers a managed DNS infrastructure with worldwide points of presence: 26 point of presence (PoP) locations on 6 continents.
- Routes queries to the closest location for minimal latency and high availability.
- Absorbs traffic spikes effortlessly via global distribution.
Flexible DNS API
Integrate your managed DNS operations seamlessly with powerful APIs, ensuring smooth DevOps workflows and error free automation.
Integrates managed DNS with Terraform, Ansible and other tools for effortless zone creation and policy updates.
Enables you to automate provisioning to reduce manual workloads and enhance agility.
Supports real time DNS changes and consistent deployments.
Simplifies DevOps pipelines across your entire DNS environment.
Delegate DNS management to individual application teams with custom middleware solutions.
DDoS resiliency
We ensure continuous DNS availability through a layered approach, preventing DNS disruptions even under the largest DDoS events.
- Over-provisioned PoPs absorb up to 50× normal load, curbing large volumetric DDoS surges.
- Protocol filtering drops non-DNS packets, blocking reflection and amplification exploits.
- Trex engine handles random Query floods, ensuring DNS uptime even during high-traffic events.
HTTPS redirects
Combine managed DNS with secure URL forwarding to maintain brand consistency, privacy, and optimal SEO value.
Seamlessly handles secure redirects through managed DNS integration.
Automatically manages certificates and HTTPS configurations.
Automates certificate renewals and DNS record updates.
Preserves consistent branding and boosts SEO.
Uptime monitor
Stay proactive with real-time health checks and seamless failover to your secondary DNS server backup solution.
- Continuously evaluate endpoint health using customizable health checks.
- Sends instant alerts when services degrade or go offline.
- Automatically reroutes traffic to healthier endpoints using traffic steering for seamless failover.
Grade up with add-ons
Boost performance and protection with these DNS add-ons, available for purchase with a Premium account. Pricing is based on your specific needs.
Add a single-tenant, redundant DNS layer for enhanced protection and performance. Isolate your DNS from shared networks to minimize downtime and risk.
Experience up to 3x faster performance for users in mainland China with optimized delivery that accounts for the impact of local internet challenges.
Steer users to the best-performing paths via real-time internet telemetry. Improve load times and availability using Real User Monitoring (RUM).
Get full visibility into DNS behavior with real-time traffic analytics. Detect anomalies and misconfigurations before they impact users or uptime.
Give your network's DNS performance a closer look
Explore IBM and Catchpoint's study on DNS performance across the globe and compare different authoritative DNS providers.