Manage Your DNS from the Command Line with DNSimple CLI
Manage your domains and DNS without leaving the terminal, built for developers who live in their terminals and CI pipelines. What you can do: create, update, and delete DNS records; register domains and manage renewals; issue and manage SSL/TLS certificates; run it in CI with API token auth and structured output. Built in Go, it uses the same foundation as our official client libraries and Terraform provider. Read our announcement: https://blog.dnsimple.com/2026/05/announcing-the-dnsimple-cli/
DNSimple has always positioned itself as the DNS provider for developers, and a CLI is a natural fit with that identity. It meets our core audience exactly where they spend their time, in the terminal. The proof is in the wild: several unofficial DNSimple CLIs have been built by the community over the years, well before this official release.
Our goal with the CLI is to make pragmatic access to the DNSimple API as easy as possible. The DNSimple API is one of the most complete in the industry, covering everything from domain registration to DNS records and certificates. It's great when you're building a system on top of it, but it's not the right shape for the everyday task of inspecting a zone, fixing a record, registering a domain, or scripting a quick automation. A CLI is, and it takes our automation story to the next level by exposing the full surface of the API behind a single, consistent command.
In the past few months, it has become evident how powerful the combination of a CLI and an AI agent can be. Debugging is more approachable, repetitive work across many resources collapses into a single instruction, and complex workflows can be composed conversationally. We wanted DNSimple to be a first-class citizen in that world, without sacrificing the experience for people who just want to type a command and read the output.
About DNSimple CLI on Product Hunt
“Manage Your DNS from the Command Line with DNSimple CLI”
DNSimple CLI launched on Product Hunt on May 26th, 2026 and earned 89 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #18 on the daily leaderboard. Manage your domains and DNS without leaving the terminal, built for developers who live in their terminals and CI pipelines. What you can do: create, update, and delete DNS records; register domains and manage renewals; issue and manage SSL/TLS certificates; run it in CI with API token auth and structured output. Built in Go, it uses the same foundation as our official client libraries and Terraform provider. Read our announcement: https://blog.dnsimple.com/2026/05/announcing-the-dnsimple-cli/
On the analytics side, DNSimple CLI competes within Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub and YouTube — topics that collectively have 1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how DNSimple CLI performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted DNSimple CLI?
DNSimple CLI was hunted by Laetitia Eden. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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