Your Domain, Published in Two Places at Once
Register a domain through McNair Media and it runs on two independent DNS providers from day one — at no extra charge. If one provider has an outage, your website and email keep working. Most registrars put you on a single provider and you find out the hard way.
Why a Domain Goes Dark
Every domain depends on nameservers — the directory that tells the internet where your site lives. Almost every domain lists nameservers from one company. If that company goes down, your domain stops working: no website, no email. Your server can be perfectly healthy and it makes no difference, because nobody can find it.
What We Do Differently
We publish an identical copy of your domain's records on two separate DNS companies and list both with the registry. If one stops answering, the internet automatically uses the other. There's no switch to flip and nothing for you to monitor — it's simply how your domain is configured.
Included, Not an Upgrade
Redundant DNS comes with every domain registered or transferred through us. There's no premium tier and no add-on fee. It costs us almost nothing to run, and we would rather it be a reason to register your domains with us than a line item on your invoice.
We Learned This the Hard Way
On August 11, 2026, the DNS provider behind a number of our clients' domains had a company-wide outage. For about four hours, ten domains were unreachable — not because anything of ours was broken, but because the nameservers answering for them stopped responding. The websites were up the entire time. The internet simply had no way to find them.
What changed after that day
- Every affected domain was moved onto a second provider the same day
- Redundant DNS became standard on every domain we register — no charge
- We monitor each nameserver individually, so we see one provider fail before you do
- The same outage today would be something you never notice
What It Does — and What It Doesn't
We would rather be precise than impressive. Redundant DNS solves one specific problem very well, and we think you should know exactly where its edges are.
What it covers
A DNS provider outage — the situation where the servers responsible for pointing visitors at your site stop answering. That is the failure this prevents, and it prevents it automatically.
What it doesn't cover
It is not a general uptime guarantee. It doesn't cover your web hosting going offline, an expired security certificate, or a problem with the website itself. Those are separate things we handle separately — and we'll always tell you which one you're looking at.
It isn't security
Some providers sell something similar as "domain protection." This isn't a security product. It doesn't stop hacking, spam or malware. It keeps your domain reachable when a provider fails. We'd rather name it accurately than oversell it.
Bring It With You — or Don't
Transferring your domain to us is free, your registration term carries over, your site stays up throughout the move — and it switches on everything on this page automatically. It's the path we recommend. But it isn't the only one, and we'd rather you have the honest map than a sales pitch.
Transfer to Us
Free to move. Redundant DNS, individual nameserver monitoring, and automatic outage failover are simply how your domain is configured from then on — and you can still add and edit your own records, mail settings included.
Keep Your Registrar, Stay Automatic
Keep your domain at GoDaddy, Hover, or wherever it lives today. A DNS account you own — Cloudflare, Amazon Route 53, or Azure DNS — plus a narrowly-scoped access grant to us gets you the same automatic protection, without moving the registration anywhere. See how the ladder works.
Keep Everything As Is
Also fine — we just need standing access that lets us change a DNS record on your behalf, and recovery becomes a manual process that takes longer and depends on people being reachable. We'll always be straight with you about that difference.