The problem with them however was that they did rack up the price over time and not just a little bit.
In 2006, I had to pay $9.95 for their yearly "Pro" offering. In 2008 the deal became "only $23.00 for 2 years", humm OK.
Two years later in 2010 it was "$30 for 2 years", in 2012 the bill became $40.00 and when 2016 came the price was upgraded again... (yet again without any other benefits from a customer point of view)
That's when I figured that it was too much and moved over to he.net. Which still is free and still works great for the dynamic DNS needed.
For static DNS services I also happen to run my own DNS servers, if needed then the he.net services could be moved over to their, but not seeing the need for now.
Sorry that I wasn't clear. the DNS services for which I was using dyn for were moved over to he.net, which is also free and easy to use and has specific support for dynamic DNS.
The DNS servers that I happen to run have nothing to do with dyn's pricing, I was already running those and they are for more serious needs as just dynamic DNS.
First of all, I didn't like that move and did not want to reward it.
Next, I wanted to become independent. Now I can choose my DNS hoster or do it myself, but as long as I keep my domain the migration is easy. (And the custom domain looks much better ;-)
So I have no hard feelings against dyn.com as it was completely okay to stop their free service. Nevertheless, I did not want to be in the same situation again.
It seems dyndns is €24 per year. My baremetal hosting (4 Dedicated ARM Cores, 2GB memory, 200Mbit/s Unmetered, 50GB HD) is €43.2 per year. I am not ready to pay more than €10 per year for a domain name. For the moment, I enjoy 3 free domain names from no-ip.org.
