Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Duck DNS

The 20 closest dynamic DNS alternatives to Duck DNS, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 9 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Duck DNS? The closest matches are Dynu, afraid.org and changeip.com. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Duck DNS

Duck DNS duckdns.org

Duck DNS

Duck DNS free dynamic DNS hosted on Amazon VPC

Top 1K · #151 9 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Duck DNS

Summary by Claude

Free dynamic DNS service that gives users a subdomain under duckdns.org and keeps it pointed at a changing home IP address via simple update requests.

Who it’s for
Home users, self-hosters and hobbyists
Business model
Donations (Patreon)

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Duck DNS’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

EU.orgDNSZidnspod.comClouDNSNo-IPNo-IPddnss.dechangeip.comafraid.orgDynu

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Duck DNS

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Duck DNS, thumbs down if it isn’t.

  1. 01
    Dynu dynu.com Top 10K English

    Free dynamic DNS service | Dynu Systems, Inc.

    Dynu Systems, Inc. provides free dynamic DNS service as well as other services such as domain registration, email and SSL services.

  2. 02
    afraid.org Top 10K English

    FreeDNS - Free DNS - Dynamic DNS - Static DNS subdomain and domain hosting

    Free DNS hosting, lets you fully manage your own domain. Dynamic DNS and Static DNS services available. You may also create hosts off other domains that we host upon the domain owners consent, we have several domains to choose from!

  3. 03
    changeip.com Top 10K English

    Dynamic DNS, VPS Hosting and More

  4. 04
    ddnss.de Top 1K German

    DDNS - Service • Kostenloser DynDNS Service • Deutscher DynDNS Dienst Anbieter

    DynDNS Service (Dynamic Domain Name Service) ist ein Service, über den ein Computer trotz wechselnder IP-Adresse immer unter demselben Domänennamen erreichbar ist.

  5. 05
    No-IP ddns.net Top 1K English

    Free Dynamic DNS | No-IP Free DDNS Service

    Get free Dynamic DNS from No-IP. Point an easy-to-remember hostname to your dynamic IP — no credit card, no hassle.

  6. 06
    No-IP no-ip.com Top 1K English

    No-IP | Smarter DNS Starts Here

    No-IP is a Free Dynamic DNS and Managed DNS provider with 100% uptime. Get free DDNS, plus domain registration and SSL certificates, for home and business

  7. 07
    ClouDNS cloudns.net Top 1K English

    Free DNS hosting, Cloud DNS hosting and Domain names | ClouDNS

    ClouDNS provides Free DNS, Cloud DNS, Managed DNS, GeoDNS and DDoS Protected DNS hosting with included web redirects, mail forwards and Round-Robin load balancing. Instant updates in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia.

  8. 08
    dnspod.com Top 10K

    DNSPod-免费智能DNS解析服务商-电信_网通_教育网,智能DNS

    DNSPod是国内提供智能DNS产品的网站,致力于为各类网站提供高质量的电信、网通、教育网双线或者三线智能DNS免费解析。目前DNSPod已经是国内最大的免费DNS解析产品提供商

  9. 09
    DNSZi dnszi.com Top 10K Korean

    DNSZi - 무료 네임서버(dns) 관리 서비스! 무료파킹서비스! 무료포워딩서비스!

  10. 10
    EU.org eu.org Top 10K

    EU.org: free domain names since 1996

    Free domain names

  11. 11
    DNS Made Easy dnsmadeeasy.com Top 1K English

    Managed DNS Business Services & Solutions Provider | a DigiCert Company

    DNS Made Easy powered by DigiCert provides high-performance managed DNS services with 100% uptime, low-latency resolution, enhanced security, and simplified DNS management.

  12. 12
    JS.ORG js.org Top 10K English

    JS.ORG - the JavaScript organization

    Dedicated to JavaScript and its awesome community since 2015

  13. 13
    easyDNS easydns.com Top 10K English

    easyDNS - DNS, Domains, Web and Email Hosting Since 1998

    The DNS Professionals: Anycast, Dynamic DNS, Enterprise DNS, Secondary DNS with TSIG, DNSSEC. We also offer web hosting, email and VPS. Amazing Support.

  14. 14
    NextDNS nextdns.io Top 10K English

    NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet

    NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.

  15. 15
    AdGuard DNS adguard-dns.com Top 10K English

    AdGuard DNS — ad-blocking DNS server

    Create your ad-blocking DNS server that will protect your personal data, prevent tracking and allow you to control access to specific content on the Internet.

  16. 16
    directnic.com Top 10K English

    Directnic.com-Get a FREE Domain with any annual Hosting Plan

    Directnic makes registering Domain Names fast, simple, and affordable. Find out why so many business owners chose Directnic to be their Domain Name Registrar.

  17. 17
    NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl Top 10K English

    NLnet Labs - Home

    Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.

  18. 18
    ZoneEdit zoneedit.com Top 10K English

    ZoneEdit – Managed DNS & Domain Services

  19. 19
    EuroDNS eurodns.com Top 10K English

    EuroDNS: Domains, Hosting & Web Essentials All In One Place

    Find a domain, launch your website, and make it happen with us! From hosting, to SSL, to branded email: EuroDNS has everything you need in one place.

  20. 20
    DNSimple dnsimple.com Top 10K English

    Reliable DNS and Domain Management with DNSimple

    Reliable DNS hosting and domain management with DNSimple's CLI, API, and automation tools. Register and transfer domains, set up SSL, and start free for 30 days.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to duckdns.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Duck DNS uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Duck DNS is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js
Analytics
Payments
  • PayPal page source: paypalobjects.com
Security
  • reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
Hosting
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx/1.30.3
Languages & backends
  • Java cookie JSESSIONID
Email hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

Stack changes

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Duck DNS adds or drops shows up here.

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Competitors by meaning, stacks from the source. Data from public homepages and DNS.

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