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Status page says
Operational since Oct 19
Last 90 days
4 incidents, 1 major or critical
Rewrites caught
None so far
Next deprecation
None announced
DNSimple incidents per day, last 90 days

Select a day to jump to its incidents below.

How DNSimple reports incidents

Compared with the 152 vendors that have enough incidents to compare. Each tick is one vendor; lower is better on every line.

Provisional. Built nightly from every archived version of each incident, last on Oct 19. Compare all vendors

First posted only after it was over
0% 0 of the 49 incidents we have in full detail

The first update already said resolved. Typical vendor: 6%.

DNSimple: lower than most vendors.

Time to resolve
1 h 42 min median; 9 in 10 within 5 h 26 min

From the vendor’s own start and resolve times, last 365 days. Typical vendor: 2 h.

DNSimple: around the middle.

Major or critical incidents
0.3 a month 4 in the last 365 days

Impact as the vendor labels it. Typical vendor: 1.2 a month.

DNSimple: lower than most vendors.

Rewrites caught
None so far

Counts, not a rate: 10-minute tracking began Oct 17, so there are too few events to compare yet.

Dependencies

What DNSimple relies on and who relies on DNSimple, as observed in status-page incidents: who they blame, where they say they run, and who fails at the same time. Observed, not verified.

DNSimple depends on

ProviderEvidenceSignal
Cloudflareblamed in 1 incident; together in 1 outage event

“…Intermittent DNS responses to ns4 in the Amsterdam region We have gotten word from CloudFlare that the attack has subsided and service is restored in the Amsterdam region for ns4.…” incident

Likely

Outage events: Microsoft Azure west us, Jul 23 (timing), Heroku, Aug 23, 2022 (timing), Cloudflare, Jul 17, 2020 (timing).

Strong: same company, or blamed in two separate outages. Likely: blamed once, or named as hosting and failing together. Weak: listed as a subprocessor, integration-only, or failing together repeatedly without being named.

Changes and edits

Incidents DNSimple rewrote or removed, and notable changes to the pages we watch.

Struck in red is what DNSimple removed. Blue is what they added.

Thursday, July 23

1 incident change

Tuesday, February 10

1 incident change

Tuesday, February 3

1 incident change

Friday, October 24, 2025

1 incident change

Thursday, October 2, 2025

1 incident change

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

1 incident change

Thursday, August 21, 2025

1 incident change

Friday, July 18, 2025

1 incident change

Full DNSimple change history

Pricing and pages we watch

PageVersionsLast changedLast checkedHistory
Privacy policy (opens in new tab)1No changes yet
Terms of service (opens in new tab)1No changes yet

Each change links to its diff: the changed passages with a few words of context, never a full copy of the page.

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Incidents

Latest 100 of 344 incidents since Nov 6, 2014, 58 of them major or critical. Maintenance is left out.

Per year, major and critical in amber:

2014: 9 incidents, 2 major or critical; 2015: 47 incidents, 9 major or critical; 2016: 34 incidents, 4 major or critical; 2017: 21 incidents, 0 major or critical; 2018: 14 incidents, 4 major or critical; 2019: 22 incidents, 10 major or critical; 2020: 26 incidents, 7 major or critical; 2021: 25 incidents, 4 major or critical; 2022: 24 incidents, 2 major or critical; 2023: 21 incidents, 3 major or critical; 2024: 34 incidents, 4 major or critical; 2025: 50 incidents, 6 major or critical; 2026: 17 incidents, 3 major or critical

Friday, October 16

1 incident

Sunday, September 6

1 incident

Saturday, August 8

1 incident

Thursday, July 23

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Friday, May 22

1 incident

Monday, May 18

1 incident

Friday, May 8

1 incident

Monday, April 20

1 incident

Thursday, March 5

1 incident

Monday, March 2

1 incident

Wednesday, February 18

1 incident

Tuesday, February 10

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Tuesday, February 3

2 incidents, 1 major or critical

Thursday, January 29

1 incident

Thursday, January 22

1 incident

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

1 incident

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

1 incident

Thursday, December 11, 2025

1 incident

Sunday, December 7, 2025

2 incidents

Thursday, December 4, 2025

1 incident

Monday, December 1, 2025

1 incident

Friday, November 28, 2025

1 incident

Thursday, November 27, 2025

1 incident

Monday, November 10, 2025

1 incident

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

2 incidents

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

1 incident

Friday, October 24, 2025

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

1 incident

Friday, October 10, 2025

1 incident

Thursday, October 2, 2025

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Friday, September 19, 2025

1 incident

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Thursday, September 11, 2025

1 incident

Monday, September 1, 2025

1 incident

Thursday, August 21, 2025

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Monday, August 11, 2025

1 incident

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

1 incident

Friday, July 18, 2025

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Thursday, July 3, 2025

1 incident

Monday, June 9, 2025

1 incident

Friday, May 23, 2025

1 incident

Thursday, May 8, 2025

1 incident

Sunday, May 4, 2025

1 incident

Friday, May 2, 2025

1 incident

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Friday, April 25, 2025

2 incidents

Friday, April 11, 2025

1 incident

Monday, April 7, 2025

1 incident

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

1 incident

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

1 incident

Friday, March 14, 2025

1 incident

Thursday, February 27, 2025

1 incident

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

1 incident

Friday, January 31, 2025

1 incident

Friday, January 24, 2025

1 incident

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

1 incident

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

2 incidents

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

1 incident

Monday, December 16, 2024

1 incident

Thursday, December 12, 2024

1 incident

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

2 incidents

Monday, November 25, 2024

1 incident

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Thursday, October 17, 2024

2 incidents

Monday, October 7, 2024

1 incident

Saturday, September 21, 2024

1 incident

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

1 incident

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

1 incident

Monday, September 16, 2024

1 incident

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

1 incident

Thursday, August 8, 2024

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

1 incident

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

1 incident

Thursday, July 4, 2024

1 incident

Monday, July 1, 2024

1 incident

Thursday, June 27, 2024

1 incident

Sunday, June 16, 2024

1 incident

Monday, June 10, 2024

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Thursday, May 30, 2024

1 incident

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

1 incident

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

1 incident

Thursday, May 16, 2024

1 incident

Saturday, May 11, 2024

1 incident

Saturday, April 20, 2024

1 incident

Saturday, April 13, 2024

1 incident

Monday, January 8, 2024

1 incident

DNSimple incidents, last 90 daysJSONMarkdown