ok a little while back my account slipped from being paid to unpaid and therefore all but 5 of my dynamic dns names I had setup dissappeared. I made the payment work again so as to have my dyndns start functioning for domains above 5, noticed it didn’t auto reinstate my dyndns names I had created previously, complained via email, dyndns then sent me a list of the domain names I had setup when I was previously paying and I then reinstated them myself manually (boring and time consuming). I now note having a look at when the dyndns names were last updated, to see whether the routers have updated their ip’s by the end of the day, and 90% of them are left as the ip I last specified when recreating them.

Now some of them are still on the same ip’s as last specified ie the ip’s have not changed, yet the “last updated” looks like it only registers an update when the ip the router is using, has actually changed, not whether the router is still successfully logging into dyndns regardless of whether the ip is changing or not. the only way i can check whether the router is still successfully updating my dyndns is to login in to each router, and ask it to do an update and check it is logging in successfully. which again is not saving me a great deal of time : >

My suggestion : is to perhaps add a second column which says “last change”, and change the meaning of last updated to mean the last time the router logged in, perhaps rename to “last logged in” even if it did not proffer a change in ip number, ie to make a differentiation between whether a router is successfully logging into dyndns, and whether it has changed the ip number associated with it. this helps me to check the routers im managing are all still functioning fine without having to login to them.

Also I find the website interface messy, because i really wish to be presented after login with a list of the services im using, ie my dyndns in my case not a page offering tons of other services and upgrades and confusing stuff im not actually using. The layout of your website is nowhere near as bad as “godaddy” the daddy of websites sadly in terms of the crime, of “interface overload”, but still things could be allot clearer at dyndns none the less.

Also the way, when im a paid user I have to do 2 or 3 clicks per new dyndns name I add, putting it through your basket system is aggravating, in terms of speed considering there is going to be no charge in the basket anyway, as I have paid for a service that gives me dyndns names ? without an extra cost per additional one ? ie : no need to put it through a basket system except for your own records ?

thanks for listening, I hope these improvements can be made. good luck to all at dyndns.