: Is there any performance issue with registering domain name and DNS with separate providers? We hosted our domain name and DNS with GoDaddy. Recently we had problem with our DNS and now it

@Nimeshi995

Tim is right to a point, however, I diverge from his experience with DNS hosting a bit.

You cannot generalize that DNS hosts perform better than registrars. You have to take this on a case-by-case basis.

Any registrar has to have a minimum mandated infrastructure that is highly robust. So any registrar should perform extremely well. These mandates do not exist for DNS hosts. There are better registrars and DNS hosts than others of course. Using quality providers for registration, optionally for DNS hosting, and for your site should satisfy anyone. However, a service provider with poor performance is much harder to detect.

GoDaddy has an outstanding reputation. There is no need for an external DNS host. I would recommend not confusing the issue unless you have a specific reason to.

It is extremely common that a site is registered, the DNS records hosted with the registrar, and the site is hosted by another service provider. There is good reason to do this especially in light of the many offerings and advantages that different hosts provide. However, let us not forget that some high quality registrars are also high quality web hosts too.

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@Phylliss660

This is quite common practice, so no there's no issue with this whatsoever.

Typically dedicated DNS providers provide better performance than the DNS service domain registrars bundle with their service, so if it's performance in particular you're worried about, you'll probably find things faster using separate providers.

Edit: based on closetnoc's comments let me expand on this a bit. I should say that I work for a company that provides DNS services so I have some level of bias here.

An Anycast DNS service will usually give you better performance than a Unicast service, as well as better availability; particularly if your site has visitors from all over the world. In my experience, it's common for dedicated DNS providers to offer Anycast services, but it's unusual for a DNS service bundled with domain registration to be Anycast. So that's what I based my generalisation on. Since the question mentioned GoDaddy, they appear to have an Anycast service (their 'Premium DNS' product) for an additional monthly fee, so I assume their free service is Unicast, but I don't know this for a fact.

I agree with closetnoc that looking at providers on a case-by-case basis would be better, so if performance is a concern for you, test the providers you're considering (ideally from regions where your site visitors are likely to be) against your current DNS and use that info to help with your decision.

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