Seems like the 3rd time in the past 12 months?

Can somebody please explain to me why this can't be mitigated against? Is it because they offer DNS as a free add-on and can't be bothered to spend the bucks to make their service more DDOS-proof?

Are there any other DNS services that anyone would recommend? I have a few domains with Namecheap and it's starting to get quite annoying when they all go down.

Route 53. Managing Route 53 from the command line with CloudFormation adds some convenience, and also lets you store your zone records in Git.

DNS Made Easy has an excellent uptime and features like DNS failover and ANAME records. Route53 from AWS isn't bad, and they added new fucntionalities recently. And with CloudFlare you get a DNS provider along with their caching and security features. There are plenty of cheap options that aren't your domain registrar.

If you only need basic DNS, this is probably overkill, but NSOne has a very cool product.

https://nsone.net/

A bit OT

This reminds me that I tried to register a Dutch domain with them a few weeks ago. It said the domain was not available. Strange, because it was a very specific name. I then tried with another service and got it right away.

So I send Namecheap a support request how this could have happened. Never got any reply.

Inflammatory title. Actual title is "DDoS Attack against DNS system v2"