--- title: "Efficient Cloud DNS (NorainaDNS)" description: "Managed authoritative DNS on a global anycast network, with health-checked failover, API and Terraform. From $24 a month; multi-cloud DNS on Enterprise." url: https://www.noraina.cloud/products/efficient-cloud-dns/ language: en --- # Efficient Cloud DNS (NorainaDNS) NorainaDNS is managed authoritative DNS with automatic failover. Your domains are served from a global anycast network, health checks switch records to a secondary origin when the primary one fails, and you manage everything from a console, a REST API or a Terraform provider. The Enterprise plan adds a second, redundant multi-cloud DNS network, so DNS stops being a single point of failure. ## Authoritative DNS, managed for you NorainaDNS hosts your zones on a global anycast network, so queries are answered from a location close to each user. It supports A, AAAA, CNAME, TXT, MX, NS, SRV, CAA, PTR and SOA records, and imports and exports BIND zone files, so moving in or out takes minutes. ## Failover that follows your services Attach a health check to any dynamic record. Checks go to your origin directly, not through the CDN or WAF in front of it, so they report whether the origin itself is answering. When the primary origin fails, traffic moves to the secondary one, and it moves back when the primary recovers. Each record can use a routing policy that matches how your infrastructure is deployed: simple, failover, weighted or latency-based. ## No single point of failure in DNS Most architectures put a lot of effort into redundant servers, regions and CDNs, and then depend on one DNS provider. On the Enterprise plan, every change is applied in parallel to the anycast network and to a redundant multi-cloud network. Both answer for your domains, and if a change fails on one of them it is rolled back on both, so they never drift apart. ## Managed as code - A REST API with scoped API keys. - A published [Terraform provider](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/norainacloud/norainadns/latest) for zones, records and health checks. - Usage analytics for queries, health checks and zones, and an audit log of every change. - Sign-in with Google and optional two-factor authentication. ## Pricing All prices are in US dollars and exclude VAT. | Plan | Price | Includes | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $24 / month | 1 DNS zone, 3 health checks, 1,000,000 queries a month, automatic failover and traffic steering, usage analytics and audit log, REST API and Terraform provider, Google sign-in and two-factor authentication, onboarding and unlimited support | | Enterprise | Priced per customer | Everything in Starter, plus multi-cloud DNS, a 100% uptime SLA, telephone support, a dedicated onboarding engineer and volume pricing | Capacity beyond the Starter plan is billed by usage, metered hourly: | Item | Price | | --- | --- | | Additional zone | $3.00 / month | | Additional health check | $8.00 / month | | Queries | $1.40 / million | You can [sign up on norainadns.com](https://gcp.norainadns.com/signup) or [talk to us](https://www.noraina.cloud/contact/) about Enterprise. Product site: https://norainadns.com/ ## Frequently asked questions ### What is NorainaDNS? NorainaDNS, also called Efficient Cloud DNS, is managed authoritative DNS from Noraina. It serves your domains from a global anycast network, fails over automatically between origins when a health check fails, and is managed from a console, a REST API or a Terraform provider. The Enterprise plan adds a redundant multi-cloud DNS network. ### How much does NorainaDNS cost? The Starter plan is $24 a month and includes one DNS zone, three health checks and one million queries a month. Beyond that you pay $3 a month per additional zone, $8 a month per additional health check and $1.40 per million queries, metered hourly. Enterprise is priced per customer. Prices exclude VAT. ### How does the automatic failover work? You attach a health check to a record. Checks reach your origin directly, bypassing any CDN or WAF in front of it, so they show whether the origin itself is up. When the primary origin fails, NorainaDNS answers with the secondary one on every network at once, and switches back when the primary recovers. ### Why serve DNS from more than one network? DNS is the one dependency every request has, and in most architectures it depends on a single provider, so a DNS outage takes everything offline no matter how redundant the rest is. With the Enterprise plan, NorainaDNS keeps your zones on its anycast network and on a redundant multi-cloud network at the same time, so if one fails the other keeps answering. ### Who is NorainaDNS for? Teams that want DNS to follow the health of their services, such as applications in more than one data centre or cloud, or several CDNs in front of the same site, and companies whose domains must stay resolvable even if a whole DNS provider has an outage. ## Compliance Our services support these controls and produce evidence for them. Certification depends on your whole management system and is granted by an accredited auditor, not by a supplier. - **ISO 27001**: 5.29, 5.30, 8.14 (https://www.noraina.cloud/compliance/iso-27001/) - **ENS**: op.cont.2, op.cont.4, mp.s.4 (https://www.noraina.cloud/compliance/ens/) - **NIS2**: 21.2.c (https://www.noraina.cloud/compliance/nis2/) - **DORA**: art.11 (https://www.noraina.cloud/compliance/dora/) - **GDPR**: 32.1.b, 32.1.c (https://www.noraina.cloud/compliance/gdpr/) Last updated: 2026-10-08