---
title: "How to enable Anycast DNS for your domain name"
description: "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"
url: https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/web-cloud/domains/dns-anycast-enable
lang: en
lastUpdated: 2025-06-18
---
# How to enable Anycast DNS for your domain name

## 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](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/domains/options/dns-anycast/) 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.


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### OVHcloud Control Panel Access

- **Direct link:** <ManagerLink to="/#/web-domains/domain">Domain names</ManagerLink>
- **Navigation path:** <code className="action">Web Cloud</code> > <code className="action">Domain names</code> > Select your domain name

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## Instructions

Click on the tabs below to view each of the **4** steps.


**Step 1**

Go to the <ManagerLink to="/#/web-domains/domain">Domain names</ManagerLink> page, then choose the domain name concerned.
![Domain Names](/images/assets/screens/control-panel/product-selection/web-cloud/domain-names.png)

**Step 2**

Select the <code className="action">DNS servers</code> tab once you have clicked on the domain concerned.
![DNS Servers](/images/assets/screens/control-panel/product-selection/web-cloud/domain-dns/dns-servers.png)

**Step 3**

On the page that pops up, click <code className="action">Order Anycast DNS</code>.
![Order Anycast DNS](/images/assets/screens/control-panel/product-selection/web-cloud/domain-dns/dns-servers/order-anycast-dns.png)

**Step 4**

On the new page that opens:
- Choose the duration proposed in the `1` section and click <code className="action">Next</code>.
- Select your payment method, then click <code className="action">Pay</code> to continue activating Anycast DNS.
![Order Anycast DNS step 2](/images/assets/screens/control-panel/product-selection/web-cloud/domain-dns/dns-servers/order-anycast-dns-step-2.png)In the message that appears in green, click the <code className="action">Purchase order</code> 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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