Making DNSimple (Changelog Interviews #637)

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Anthony Eden, Founder & CEO of DNSimple, joins the show to talk about the world of managed hosting for DNS and more.

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Featuring:

• Anthony Eden – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• dnsimple/erldns

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapters

1. This week on The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Retool (00:01:21)

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3. Start the show! (00:03:12)

4. DNSimple for 15 years! (00:04:26)

5. Keep it simple not deceptive (00:09:08)

6. The eariliest of days (00:10:48)

7. Locked out of TLDs (00:14:42)

8. Domain search no. Register yes. (00:18:10)

9. Domain search and register for the honey (00:22:42)

10. Finding your customers (00:24:02)

11. New in the world of DNS (00:30:33)

12. Sponsor: Heroku (00:33:59)

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13. How do you think about growth? (00:36:39)

14. Elixir much? (00:44:18)

15. Elixir + Rails (00:51:50)

16. Ops, observability and stuff (00:54:52)

17. DNS war stories (00:57:40)

18. Still sell SSL certs? (01:07:55)

19. Sponsor: Depot (01:10:22)

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20. Secret new TLDs? (01:12:43)

21. IPv6 (01:16:11)

22. Wireguard FTW (01:20:51)

23. Put your AI in your DNS (01:23:30)

24. Llama 4 just dropped (01:25:44)

25. Suggestive domain name search (01:29:52)

26. Becoming a Registery (01:33:10)

27. Finding DNSimple (01:38:32)

28. Wild stories behind DNS (01:41:07)

29. We're done (01:43:20)

30. Closing thoughts and stuff (01:44:39)