How to enable Anycast DNS for your domain name
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18.06.2025 
DNS (Domain Name System)
Objective
Do you need your services (e.g. your website) to be accessible in record time across the globe? Do you want your domain name’s DNS resolution to be optimized?
OVHcloud offers the Anycast DNS option.
Find out how to speed up access to your web services with the DNS resolution speed offered by your domain name’s Anycast DNS option.
Requirements
- A domain name with an extension compatible with the Anycast DNS option.
- Access to your OVHcloud Control Panel, in the
Web Cloudsection.
Instructions
Click on the tabs below to view each of the 5 steps.
Log in to the OVHcloud Control Panel, then go to the Web Cloud section.
Click the Domain names menu, then choose the domain name concerned.
Select the DNS servers tab once you have clicked on the domain concerned.
On the page that pops up, click Order Anycast DNS.
On the new page that opens:
- Choose the duration proposed in the
1section and clickNext. - Select your payment method, then click
Payto continue activating Anycast DNS.
In the message that appears in green, click the Purchase order button to be redirected to the purchase order for enabling the Anycast DNS option.
Once you have placed an order, continue to validate it using a payment method to complete the processing of the order.
It may take several minutes for the Anycast DNS option to be enabled.
Go further
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