OneDollarDNS
The facts below are what the maker publishes about OneDollarDNS, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From OneDollarDNS's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Domain monitoring | $1 a month | Hourly checks · As many domains as needed · No per-host billing · Per active domain; charged at the start of each billing period. |
| Frequent Monitoring add-on | $1 a month | Up to 50 Priority Hosts per domain · Checks every 5 minutes · Per domain, added to domain monitoring price. |
| Team Notifications add-on | $5 a month | Slack · Discord · Webhooks · Additional email recipients · Flat account-level charge, regardless of monitored domain count. |
The facts
Each one read from OneDollarDNS's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Alert integrations
- The Team Notifications add-on routes alerts to Slack, Discord, HTTPS webhooks, and additional verified email addresses.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Authoritative DNS checks
- Monitoring queries authoritative nameservers directly rather than relying on cached resolvers.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Change history
- DNS snapshots are compared over time, and detected additions, removals, and modifications are recorded in alert history.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Check frequency
- Domains are checked hourly by default, with 5-minute checks available for up to 50 Priority Hosts per domain through the Frequent Monitoring add-on.checked 8 Oct 2026
- DNS provider integrations
- Provider Sync supports Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, GoDaddy, Namecheap, and Porkbun for importing hostnames.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Intended customers
- The maker describes the service as intended for developers, indie SaaS owners, small businesses, and agencies monitoring DNS changes.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Payments
- Stripe processes payments, and OneDollarDNS says it does not store full card details.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Provider credentials
- The service recommends scoped or read-only provider tokens, and says stored provider credentials are encrypted at rest and used to read DNS records.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- OneDollarDNS monitors domain DNS records and alerts customers when records change; it does not host or manage DNS.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Record types
- It monitors A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, TXT, CAA, and SRV records.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Security
- The security page says connections use HTTPS, sensitive data is encrypted at rest, passwords are hashed, and two-factor authentication is available.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Support
- The documentation directs customers to email support for help.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Zone file import
- Customers can import hosts from BIND-format zone files, which must be no larger than 512 KB.checked 8 Oct 2026
Money
- Trial limits
- The 14-day trial requires no credit card and supports up to three domains.checked 8 Oct 2026
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