[jakeludington]

Since when does trusting a business critical function to a free service make any sense? At least GoDaddy has a motivation to provide some level of service because people are paying them.

Some other alternatives that aren't free, but are highly reliable are: http://dyn.com/ http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com

I use the latter one and in addition to providing an alternative to my registrar, they also seem to have much faster response times, which cut some milliseconds off a site lookup.

[Nyr]

My suggestion makes sense since they are a very big ISP and they simply don't care about the cost of a service that they would need to provide to their clients anyway.

Namecheap does the same and most people think that they provide a good service.

Seriously, pay if you want, but if you aren't Google, you don't need to pay for reliable DNS hosting.