dns pricing rate comparison

The prices and totals shown below are for 4 servers in a global load balancing and failover configuration. The query volume is set at 5 million queries per month. The comparison uses the cheapest published package rate for each service that fits the requirements. In order to show the effects of overage charging on a total monthly cost, an overage of 2 million dns queries is assumed.

	edgedirector	neustar ultradns	tzo autofailover	netriplex
monthly base	0.00	100.00	99.50	199.00
queries	75.00	4900.00	2000.00	1250.00
4 distributed		1000.00	600.00	n/a
4 failover		1000.00	150.00
query overage		2000.00	800.00	1000.00
technical support			150.00
monthly total	75.00	9000.00	3799.50	2449.00

note:
1.	netriplex does not offer global load balancing
2.	edgedirector charges only for actual dns query usage
3.	vendors may offer services at lower than published rates

August 11, 2008