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CloudFloorDNS Enterprise DNS vs IBM NS1 Connect comparison

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Categories and Ranking

CloudFloorDNS Enterprise DNS
Ranking in Managed DNS
16th
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM NS1 Connect
Ranking in Managed DNS
7th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Domain Name System (DNS) Security (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Managed DNS category, the mindshare of CloudFloorDNS Enterprise DNS is 1.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM NS1 Connect is 3.0%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed DNS Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM NS1 Connect3.0%
CloudFloorDNS Enterprise DNS1.2%
Other95.8%
Managed DNS
 

Featured Reviews

Jonathan Sprague - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Sr. Infrastructure Engineer - Technical Lead at Octapharma
Support and communication have been great during setup and implementation
Allocating SRV based on geographical location using GeoDNS. This was primarily for a global VOIP deployment. We also use GeoDNS with A records to distribute different versions of websites according to the country which provides us some regulatory value and more direct marketing. It also allows us…
Sanchit Makkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Dns architect at a outsourcing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Intelligent global traffic steering has improved reliability and reduced latency for users
IBM NS1 Connect has a very steep learning curve in terms of learning the custom filter chains and the complex multi-region setup, which requires a specialized DNS expert and can be difficult for beginners. One has to get trained on IBM NS1 before starting to use it. The documentation and the interface could be improved, as a step-by-step video configuration guide would be helpful in new implementations. Daily change audit features and easier rollback options should also be provided in the GUI itself. The dashboard and the GUI have gray areas for advanced tasks, which require API interaction and can be overwhelming for beginners.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Tough to provide numbers, but avoiding downtime and calls from my employees when the VPN goes down was priceless."
"Support was outstanding when first setting up in trial mode and also after we had gone live with the product."
"Great performance, easy configuration."
"We have improved our flexibility to deploy web-based or DNS based solutions globally and deliver services more reliably."
"The fact that it's an API-first platform for DNS and application traffic management is one of the reasons we looked into NS1. We use it for a lot of automation and metrics gathering and it's been great."
"For starters, it integrates with Terraform and a lot of our infrastructure is effectively built out using Terraform. That makes all this stuff extremely easy... when we deploy, all the entries are created and configuration is done."
"In general, I would say that this has been the easiest solution to manage and implement."
"If you need an external DNS provider, NS1 has been a really good provider for us, giving us exactly what we were looking for and with more functionality than we need for the moment, functionality that we can buy additionally."
"The Filter Chain is one of the most valuable features, for geo-load balancing and geo-fencing. The Filter Chain is the most useful because it allows us to do several things. With geo-fencing we can redirect a particular user to a particular answer. That's very valuable for us. Filter Chains with monitoring is our strategy to provide redundancy."
"NS1 gives us a nice flat line, because it's always performant and fast and that's what we want to see."
"The provisioning is great. They have an API service that is simple to use and very quick. The changes that we make are replicated worldwide in a matter of usually milliseconds, sometimes seconds. They are done very rapidly. That's something that's obviously priceless when we're dealing with things like DNS."
"NS1 solution has many more features and it works faster than any of the other solutions."
 

Cons

"My only recommendation might be a better, more modern interface."
"Compared to the other platforms, the interface is not as smooth, but the options and support help make that a non-issue."
"The email for each line change is excessive, perhaps if the change emails consolidated all changes per domain in a given hour."
"Just to be able to import records with our current DNS product which didn't seem to work with importing domains using AXFR zone transfer records."
"The Filter Chain setup is a bit hard to grasp at first."
"The technical support is slow. You raise a PR, and then it takes several weeks for them to respond."
"The Filter Chain simulation is really good in the UI, but it would be nice to have something similar in the API so that we could simulate and test things before we deploy them."
"I would like to see the UI updated to allow me to do finer searches."
"We care about monitoring and telemetry work, and NS1 provides a pretty good system for monitoring. We can monitor our endpoints and points of presence around the world. If there are any issues, we can easily remove them from our network, but this area needs some improvement because it is not always reliable in NS1. In the past, we had a number of false-positive cases when the monitoring system told us about some problems in our infrastructure that were not true. NS1 is improving the system, and we are constantly talking about this with them. I know that they are releasing a new version of their monitoring system, which is really important for us, but this is a different area where we would expect them to improve."
"I would love to see improvement in the testing capabilities they provide."
"I am not overall satisfied with the license and cost for IBM NS1 Connect because my pre-sales team interacts on that part regarding pricing."
"We use the geo load balancing functionality and there are a couple of things that are helpful there. But the language itself is something we had to get used to a little bit. Some of my folks made a few mistakes in rolling out the Filter Chain...The Filter Chain setup is a bit hard to grasp at first. It would also be nice to have a way to simulate changes in addition to staging."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"NS1's pricing is much more aggressive than its competitors in the market and you get more value out of what you pay for it."
"The cost of this product is one of the reasons that we chose it."
"We pay about $30,000 a month. We used to pay about $20,000 with Dyn every month, for lower volume than we're doing right now, but it had none of the features that we have available with NS1, so it was worth it for us. It seems competitive for us, given that we're doing 4.5 billion requests."
"Everything can always be cheaper, but as it is today the pricing is fair."
"From a cost standpoint, it's certainly not the most expensive out there, and it's also not the cheapest, but it does well to balance the cost and the functionality/reliability."
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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider
13%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

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Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise14
 

Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with NS1 Managed DNS?
I believe IBM NS1 Connect can be improved in several ways. The main concern I identified is the cost, which is higher than other solutions despite its uses. Additionally, they could improve their h...
What is your primary use case for NS1 Managed DNS?
My main use case for IBM NS1 Connect is handling DNS traffic and routing traffic. A specific example of how I use IBM NS1 Connect to route traffic is routing the API, the websites' API, and the app...
What advice do you have for others considering NS1 Managed DNS?
Regarding IBM NS1 Connect's AI capabilities, the accuracy and reliability of output involve least privileged API keys, API key rotation, secret management, and monitoring and alerting, with alerts ...
 

Also Known As

CloudFloorDNS
NS1 Managed DNS, NS1
 

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