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All hosting.com DNS runs on an Anycast network. If your domain uses our nameservers, you are already using Anycast, and there is nothing to configure or opt into.

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About Anycast

Anycast is a network routing method where the same IP address is announced from many locations at once, and a visitor’s DNS query is answered by whichever location is closest to them. In practice that gives you:
  • Faster DNS lookups, because queries are answered near the visitor rather than from a single region
  • Redundancy, because losing one location does not take your DNS offline
  • Load balancing, spreading query volume across the network

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The nameservers

Point your domain at the standard hosting.com nameservers: These are the same nameservers for every hosting product, and they are Anycast. For how to set them at your registrar, see Setting the name servers for a domain.
If your registrar asks for nameserver IP addresses rather than names — some do when you register a private or glue-record nameserver — open a support ticket and we will give you the current addresses.

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More information

For more information about Anycast, please visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast.