Domains and DNS
When someone types your name, they find you. Every time.
Your domain and its DNS decide whether customers reach your website and whether your email arrives. We register and renew your domains, run your DNS from more than 60 locations, and add protection, failover and monitoring.
- Global anycast network on six continents
- DDoS-protected DNS
- More than 1,000 domain extensions
- DNSSEC supported
When DNS stops, everything stops
DNS turns your domain into the addresses of your website, email and applications. If it's slow, visitors wait. If it fails, your site and email disappear, even when your servers are running perfectly well.
Answers from nearby
Our premium DNS is served from more than 60 locations on six continents, so each lookup is answered close to the person making it. Premium DNS comes with a 100% availability commitment for the DNS network.
No single location to fail
Every location answers for your domain over IPv4 and IPv6, so if one has a problem, lookups move to the next one automatically.
Protected from attacks
On protected plans, attack traffic aimed at your DNS is filtered by several protection networks, so a flood of requests is far less likely to take your services offline.
Looked after for you
We keep records tidy, renewals on time and email records correct, and we make changes when you ask.
Everything that sits behind your name
Domain names
Register, transfer and renew domains in more than 1,000 extensions, from .com and .net to country domains such as .ae, .bh and .tr, and Arabic-script domains such as .شبكة. Every domain includes theft protection, WHOIS privacy wherever the registry allows it and management by phone, and we track every renewal date. Some country domains, such as .sy and .sa, must be registered by your organisation itself, and we look after their DNS once they're registered. Domain management
Managed DNS
Every domain we manage gets working DNS, and hosting clients can edit theirs in the hosting control panel. On request, we add premium DNS on a global anycast network, with all the common record types, DNSSEC, email forwarding, web redirects and query statistics. Daily backups of your DNS settings are kept for 30 days. DNS hosting
DDoS-protected DNS
Everything in managed DNS, with attack traffic filtered before it reaches the network, for businesses where an hour offline is expensive.
Location-based routing
Send each visitor to the server nearest to them, by continent, by country, or by region in the United States and Canada. Routing uses the visitor's own network location rather than their DNS provider's, so answers match where the visitor really is. Good for websites and apps served from more than one region.
DNS failover
We check your server every minute, or as often as every 10 seconds, by ping, web request, TCP, UDP or DNS. If it stops responding, DNS sends visitors to your backup server automatically, and back again once it recovers.
Uptime monitoring and status pages
12 kinds of checks, from websites, page content and certificate expiry to ports, mail servers and scheduled jobs, run from more than 80 locations as often as every minute. Alerts arrive by email, SMS, Telegram or webhook, and a public status page keeps your customers informed.
SSL certificates
Free certificates come with our web hosting. When you need a certificate with a warranty, or a wildcard certificate that covers every subdomain, we supply domain-validated certificates from established certificate authorities and install them for you.
Email on your domain
Forward addresses at your domain to inboxes you already use, use the mailboxes that come with our web hosting, or move your team to Google Workspace, set up and managed by us.
Specialist DNS
Secondary DNS alongside your own servers, reverse DNS for your IP ranges, dynamic DNS for offices and devices whose addresses change, and private DNS servers reserved for you, with their own IP addresses and anycast routing, for hosting companies and service providers, quoted on request.
Our name on the nameservers, or yours
Branded nameservers
Your domains point to nameservers under our name, such as dns1.ultaria.com, never a supplier's. Businesses that resell can have nameservers under their own domain, for a one-off set-up fee of 100 USD that includes moving up to 50 records.
A panel you can use yourself
Manage records yourself in an English-language DNS panel at dns.ultaria.com, with access limited to the domains and record types you choose. Hosting clients can also edit DNS in their hosting control panel.
Or leave it to us
Call us or send a request in Arabic or English, and we make the change, check it and confirm when it's live.
Moving house without losing the post
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Send us your domains
We list every domain with its registrar, renewal date and current DNS provider.
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We review your records
We check your website, email and verification records, including SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and fix anything missing or wrong.
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We copy, then switch
Your records are copied and tested on our network first. Then we change your nameservers, and visitors move across gradually, on a plan built to avoid any break in service.
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We keep it in order
Renewals, record changes, monitoring, and a review of your domains once a year.
Domain prices, per year
Domains are quoted per extension, per year, with theft protection, WHOIS privacy and our management included. Premium DNS, DDoS protection, failover and monitoring are add-ons, priced per year, for the domains we manage, available on request.
Domains and DNS, in plain answers
Do I need to move my domain to use your DNS?
Usually, yes. Premium DNS is an add-on for the domains we manage, so we first transfer your domain to our registrar account. You stay its owner, and your website and email keep working during the move. If a domain has to stay with its current registrar, tell us and we'll work out how to look after it.
Will changing DNS take my site or email offline?
Normally not. We copy and check every record before the switch, and the old and new DNS give the same answers while the change spreads, which can take up to 48 hours.
What is anycast DNS?
The same DNS addresses are announced from many locations around the world, and each lookup is answered by the nearest one. It's faster for visitors, and it keeps working if one location fails.
What's the difference between failover and monitoring?
Monitoring tells you something is wrong. Failover acts on it, by sending visitors to a backup server until the main one recovers. Businesses with a backup server usually use both.
Do I need DDoS-protected DNS?
If your business loses money or trust when its website or email can't be reached, yes. DNS is a common target, because taking it down takes everything that depends on it down too.
Which domain extensions can you register?
More than 1,000, including .com, .net and .org, many country domains and Arabic-script domains. Some country domains, such as .sy and .sa, must be registered by your organisation itself, and we look after them once they're registered. Ask us about the one you want.
Is WHOIS privacy included?
Yes, at no extra cost, wherever the registry allows it. Theft protection and our management by phone are included too. Domain management
Do you set up email records?
Yes. We set up and check your MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC records, so your email is delivered and others can't easily send in your name.
What happens when a domain is due for renewal?
We track every renewal date, remind you in advance and renew on time automatically. A domain that lapses can be registered by someone else, so we don't leave it to chance.
Can our team edit DNS records ourselves?
Yes. You can have access to our DNS panel, which is in English and limited to your own domains, or edit DNS in your hosting control panel if you host with us. Or send us the changes in Arabic or English, and we'll make them.
Domains and DNS
Send us your domain list. We'll find the weak spots.
We'll check your DNS records, email settings and renewal dates for free, and tell you what needs fixing before it causes trouble.