Free DDNS

This simple guide will show you how to run a Minecraft server from home that will allow friends to join your server. It should only take a few minutes to setup by anyone (you don't have to be a network ninja!) Sign up for Free DDNS at Now-DNS and configure an easy to remember hostname from one of our many free domains. The domain crafting.xyz was added especially for Minecraft use, it is available in the drop down list. Install the free Windows DDNS client to keep your hostname up to date with you IP address. Download UPnP wizard and install it. Setup port forwarding using UPnP wizard - Start up UPnP Wizard and add a port mapping for TCP port 25565 by clicking the "+" icon. Download Minecraft Server Start the server - Open a cmd prompt. - Change into the directory that you downloaded the minecraft server into. - Launch the server using java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.1.11.jar nogui . - If this is the first time you have launc

Did you know that Now DNS provides a simple API to perform DNS lookups over HTTP? Example Query: https://now-dns.com/nslookup.php?q=bing.com&type=mx Results are returned in JSON format making it easy to parse and use in code.

Now DNS have launched a new URL shortening service 301.li URLs are shortened using the easy to remember domain 301.li For example this URL; http://freeddns.now-dns.org/2016/05/now-ipcom-free-ddns-update-clients.html Using the URL shortening service becomes; http://301.li/bKPmH What would you use the service for? To shorten long urls where you need to save space, such as in tweets or emails. Like our other services its totally free.

Now DNS recently enabled IPv6 on our primary nameservers. This was reasonably painless to configure using OVH and CentOS. Whilst IPv6 is not new, having been around since 1998, its adoption has been rather slow. After a few days usage we were pleasantly surprised to see reasonable amounts of DNS queries coming over IPv6. In fact we measured that slightly over 8% of queries are now using IPv6!