DNS

Several HN readers described abrupt account locks, weak support, or similar takeovers at other registrars. The recurring advice was operational rather than ideological: use domain privacy, keep recovery information current, and make a migration plan before an emergency.

The thread also undercuts the easy explanation that one company is uniquely broken—social engineering remains a human process wherever a support channel can reset access.

Bunny DNS isn't a 1.1.1.1-style resolver — it's authoritative DNS with a routing engine that already steers 200 billion queries a month across 119 locations. Killing the per-query meter removes the one unpredictable line on the bill.

Then a user tried to open an account and couldn't get DNS without the $1 minimum spend, calling the 'free' headline 'verging on dishonest' — while others argued that exact floor is the anti-abuse feature.

The numbers are real: 200 million endpoints created on the public relays in the last 30 days, with about 95% of traffic flowing directly device-to-device instead of through a cloud hop.

Two of Iroh's own developers showed up to field questions, including the hard one a 'really pretty old' networking veteran asked: how does a flat key-based address space scale without every node tracking every other?