Alibaba Cloud DNS:Feature change log

Time

Change description

2025-12-23

Public Zone now supports ALIAS record types to enable CNAME flattening. For more information, see ALIAS records.

2025-12-20

Domain Monitoring provides a network probe dashboard that supports network traffic analysis and network probe log queries.

2025-11-28

Public Zone now offers the Ultimate Edition for purchase. This edition provides higher specifications to meet enterprise needs for custom quotas. For more information, see Edition comparison.

2025-11-01

The Reverse DNS Lookup feature in Alibaba Cloud DNS lets you configure PTR records for public IP addresses, such as elastic IP addresses (EIPs) or static public IP addresses of ECS instances, under your Alibaba Cloud account. These records are used for reverse DNS lookups. For more information, see Reverse DNS lookup.

2025-10-30

The sales policy for Public Zone is updated. Enterprise users can no longer purchase the Personal Edition, and DNS security protection is upgraded by default. For more information, see Notice on sales policy adjustment for Public Authoritative DNS plans.

2025-09-30

• Released the DNS AI agent. You can open the agent in the upper-right corner of the console to start a conversation.

• Multiple DNS firewall products are now available for public resolution, recursive resolution, and private network resolution scenarios. For more information, see DNS Firewall.

• A one-stop, end-to-end monitoring service is now available for domain names that require major event support. For more information, see Key Domain Monitoring.

• DNS records for Public Zone now support health checks. This service is provided by Global Traffic Manager 3.0.

• Global Traffic Manager 3.0 now supports the pay-as-you-go billing method. For more information, see Pay-as-you-go.

2025-06-30

• The console is completely redesigned and upgraded. Multiple feature modules are consolidated. For more information, see [Upgrade] Announcement on the redesign and upgrade of Alibaba Cloud DNS.

• Public DNS is split into two independent sub-products:

  • For mobile resolution scenarios: Mobile DNS (HTTPDNS)

  • For enterprise public recursive resolution scenarios: Enterprise Recursive DNS