Setting Up and Managing Premium Anycast

Activate Premium Anycast for your domains and benefit from the advantages of a global DNS network with Anycast technology.

Requirements

You have registered your domain with IONOS or added it as an external domain to your IONOS account.
You are using the DNS Pro add-on feature.
Your domain extension is DNSSEC compatible.
Your domain uses the default IONOS name servers.
Secondary DNS must be deactivated.

Edit DNS Settings

The function described in this article can be found in the DNS settings in your IONOS account.

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Activating Premium Anycast

Open the DNS settings of the domain for which you want to activate Premium Anycast.
In the Premium Anycast area, click Activate.

Premium Anycast is now activated. This may take a moment. Afterwards, your domain will use the fast Anycast DNS network.

Activating DNSSEC

Open the DNS settings of the domain for which you want to enable DNSSEC.
In the DNSSEC section, click Activate.

DNSSEC is now activated for your domain.

Please Note

It may take up to 48 hours for this change to take effect worldwide.

Deactivating Premium Anycast

You can deactivate Premium Anycast at any time:

Open the DNS settings of the domain concerned.
Click on Deactivatein the Premium Anycast area.

Premium Anycast is now deactivated. This may take a moment. Afterwards, your domain will use the standard DNS network again.