My Story with HiDNS

HiDNS was not a project that was carefully “designed” from the very beginning. Instead, it was a path I gradually found myself on, pushed forward by real problems I kept encountering along the way. At first, I was simply running a small Telegram community for technical discussions. I noticed that many people in the group felt frustrated because they couldn’t get a usable free domain. At the same time, with many existing public suffixes, short and memorable prefixes had already been taken. That was when I started to ask myself: could I try to build a more friendly public suffix on my own?That question eventually led to the birth of HiDNS. HiDNS comes from “Hello DNS.”The “Hi” is not a complicated technical acronym, but a simple greeting — saying hello to DNS, to developers, and to the internet itself. I started with hidns.co, and later added hidns.vip and hidns.cc. These were never about expansion for its own sake, but about leaving room for compliance, sustainability, and long-term ope