DNS,
ten
cities,
fourASNs.
Authoritative DNS hosting on ten servers across four distinct ASNs. Operated from Helsinki, by one person, on purpose. It does not pretend to be anycast. It will, however, never sell your zone data.
Fig. 1 — published & hidden authoritative nameservers, projected onto WGS84.
We are defined by the things
we refuse to ship.
Every DNS startup of the last ten years has flogged the same five claims: "blazing-fast anycast", "infinite scale", "five nines SLA", "global edge", "AI-powered everything." We will not be doing any of that. Here is what we are doing instead.
/not anycast
We do not own BGP-friendly hardware. We do not pretend to. What we have is route-based GeoDNS across ten cities, which gets you 90% of the latency benefit at 0% of the marketing cost.
/not in California
Cloudflare DNS is excellent, and lives under the U.S. Cloud Act. Your zone data crosses borders you cannot see. Our control plane sits in Helsinki. Your zones do not leave the EU unless you ask.
/not pretending
We will not sell you a 99.999% SLA we cannot deliver from one operator. We will tell you what works, what is in beta, and what is unfinished. Then we will improve it in public.
/not locked in
AXFR-export from any zone, any time, no toggles. If we go away, your zones go with you. Migration tools work in both directions, on purpose.
Every node, listed.
No marketing surface.
Here is the actual physical inventory. Four are published as authoritative nameservers — one per ASN, RFC 2182 §3.1 compliant. The other six are hidden geographic replicas: they answer queries locally and provide failover, but never appear in a delegation. If a published NS dies, your resolvers see no impact.
| · | NS | City | ASN | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ● | ns1 | Helsinki | AS24940 | PRIMARY |
| ● | ns2 | Vienna | AS8218 | PUBLISHED |
| ● | ns3 | Secaucus | AS29838 | PUBLISHED |
| ● | ns4 | Tokyo | AS209847 | PUBLISHED |
| ○ | — | Bucharest | AS8218 | replica |
| ○ | — | Reykjavik | AS209847 | replica |
| ○ | — | Rome | AS209847 | replica |
| ○ | — | São Paulo | AS209847 | replica |
| ○ | — | Wellington | AS209847 | replica |
| ○ | — | Almaty | AS209847 | replica |
Fig. 2 — Six of ten nodes ride AS209847 (WorkTitans). This is a known concentration risk; migration of two-three of them to BGP-friendly hosts is on the roadmap. We tell you this on the homepage. Other vendors do not.
Same answer.
Different planet.
Streaming Postgres replication from Helsinki to nine regional replicas means a record you change in the dashboard hits Tokyo in roughly the same second. Here is what that looks like, unedited.
$ dig @ns1.vantagedns.com example.com +noall +answer +stats
;; ANSWER SECTION:
example.com. 300 IN A 203.0.113.42
example.com. 300 IN A 203.0.113.43
;; Query time: 4 msec
;; SERVER: 204.168.163.111#53 (ns1.vantagedns.com)
;; WHEN: Tue May 05 15:42:11 UTC 2026
;; MSG SIZE: 72
$ dig @ns4.vantagedns.com example.com +noall +answer +stats
;; ANSWER SECTION:
example.com. 300 IN A 203.0.113.42
example.com. 300 IN A 203.0.113.43
;; Query time: 38 msec
;; SERVER: 5.253.41.37#53 (ns4.vantagedns.com / Tokyo)
;; SAME ANSWER. Different planet. The datasheet,
not the brochure.
Numbers we are willing to defend. If any of these ever drift, you will see it on the status page before you see it in marketing.
| 01 | Authoritative nameservers | 4public | one per ASN |
| 02 | Hidden geographic replicas | 6reserved | failover & GeoDNS |
| 03 | Distinct ASNs | 4autonomous | RFC 2182 §3.1 compliant |
| 04 | Glue propagation, p99 | < 5seconds | streaming WAL replication |
| 05 | Mean DNS query latency, EU, p99 | < 10ms | measured from monitor.lab |
| 06 | DNSSEC algorithm | ECDSAP256SHA-256 | auto KSK / ZSK rotation |
| 07 | Control plane jurisdiction | EU / FI | no US Cloud Act exposure |
| 08 | Anycast | no | route-based GeoDNS instead |
| 09 | Vendor lock-in | zero | AXFR-export anytime |
Move
your zones.
In aboutfifteen minutes.
Closed beta opens June 2026. Migration tooling supports AXFR and BIND-export from Cloudflare, Route 53, deSEC, and DNSimple. Drop your email. We will write back — not a CRM, a person, in Helsinki.