Anthony Eden, Founder & CEO of DNSimple, joins the show to talk about the world of managed hosting for DNS and more.
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Notes & Links
Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 1 | 00:00 | This week on The Changelog | 01:21 |
| 2 | 01:21 | Sponsor: Retool | 01:51 |
| 3 | 03:12 | Start the show! | 01:14 |
| 4 | 04:26 | DNSimple for 15 years! | 04:42 |
| 5 | 09:08 | Keep it simple not deceptive | 01:40 |
| 6 | 10:48 | The eariliest of days | 03:54 |
| 7 | 14:42 | Locked out of TLDs | 03:28 |
| 8 | 18:10 | Domain search no. Register yes. | 04:31 |
| 9 | 22:42 | Domain search and register for the honey | 01:20 |
| 10 | 24:02 | Finding your customers | 06:31 |
| 11 | 30:33 | New in the world of DNS | 03:27 |
| 12 | 33:59 | Sponsor: Heroku | 02:40 |
| 13 | 36:39 | How do you think about growth? | 07:38 |
| 14 | 44:18 | Elixir much? | 07:33 |
| 15 | 51:50 | Elixir + Rails | 03:01 |
| 16 | 54:52 | Ops, observability and stuff | 02:48 |
| 17 | 57:40 | DNS war stories | 10:15 |
| 18 | 1:07:55 | Still sell SSL certs? | 02:27 |
| 19 | 1:10:22 | Sponsor: Depot | 02:20 |
| 20 | 1:12:43 | Secret new TLDs? | 03:28 |
| 21 | 1:16:11 | IPv6 | 04:40 |
| 22 | 1:20:51 | Wireguard FTW | 02:39 |
| 23 | 1:23:30 | Put your AI in your DNS | 02:14 |
| 24 | 1:25:44 | Llama 4 just dropped | 04:08 |
| 25 | 1:29:52 | Suggestive domain name search | 03:18 |
| 26 | 1:33:10 | Becoming a Registery | 05:23 |
| 27 | 1:38:32 | Finding DNSimple | 02:35 |
| 28 | 1:41:07 | Wild stories behind DNS | 02:12 |
| 29 | 1:43:20 | We're done | 01:20 |
| 30 | 1:44:39 | Closing thoughts and stuff | 02:03 |