dns txt records as a storage medium

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dns txt records as a storage medium (desec / duckdns / freedns) Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

desec.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dns/rrsets.html · rejected-provider · storage/dns-txt-records-as-a-storage-medium · JSON · compare

Free tier	Works as a protocol but the ceiling is ~1 MB per name: one RRset allows max 4091 record values and 64,000 characters total after JSON encoding, and RRset writes are capped at 300/day/domain. unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	Works as a protocol but the ceiling is ~1 MB per name: one RRset allows max 4091 record values and 64,000 characters total after JSON encoding, and RRset writes are capped at 300/day/domain.
Notes	Works as a protocol but the ceiling is ~1 MB per name: one RRset allows max 4091 record values and 64,000 characters total after JSON encoding, and RRset writes are capped at 300/day/domain.
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	desec.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dns/rrsets.html	Works as a protocol but the ceiling is ~1 MB per name: one RRset allows max 4091 record values and 64,000 characters total after JSON encoding, and RRset writes are capped at 300/day/domain.
2026-10-21	desec.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rate-limits.html	cited as the basis of the rejection: Works as a protocol but the ceiling is ~1 MB per name: one RRset allows max 4091 record values and 64,000 characters total after JSON encoding, and RRset writes are capped at 300/day/domain.
2026-10-21	desec.io/	cited as the basis of the rejection: Works as a protocol but the ceiling is ~1 MB per name: one RRset allows max 4091 record values and 64,000 characters total after JSON encoding, and RRset writes are capped at 300/day/domain.

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Works as a protocol but the ceiling is ~1 MB per name: one RRset allows max 4091 record values and 64,000 characters total after JSON encoding, and RRset writes are capped at 300/day/domain.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (15)

$.chaining not-recorded
$.confidence_note withheld
$.egress.terms not-recorded
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded