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Google to offer free DNS service

December 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

Google will start pushing for a faster web next year, and there have been several rumors in the SEO and marketing world that google will add page speed to its SEO rankings algorithm.  Yesterday they have announced that  Google will offer a free DNS service.

First off, this is great.  It should improve the speed of looking up the DNS info of many sites, and if the service takes off, it should take the load off your NS.

The focus on speed if very clear, the Google public DNS server lists this first as one of the advantages.  It also points to the speed problems caused by DNS latency.

Google Public DNS IP addresses

The Google Public DNS IP addresses are as follows:

  • 8.8.8.8
  • 8.8.4.4

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  • 1 marius // Dec 6, 2009 at 2:27 am

    They should have done this a long time ago. They finally realized that dns controls everything on the inernet ;) . Now they only need to figure out a way to have users use their own dns (if they care that besides chrome os). Step by step the pieces of the google puzzle start to appear cleaner and cleaner and all of them point to chrome.

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