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The Domain Naming Service (DNS) matches your website’s domain name (netim.com, for example) with the IP address where the website is hosted on the web (213.244.184.122, for example). Without this service, the use of domain names would not be possible and the use of the Internet will be very different.

Your website needs at least 1 nameserver to resolve on the Internet. However, it is recommended, and in some cases mandatory, to have two or more nameservers to achieve redundancy. Nameservers redundancy is a failsafe. In the case of a server becoming unavailable, having secondary servers ensures your website stays online no matter what. This type of server makes it possible to store the DNS configuration of the latter and to declare the corresponding IP addresses of the various services such as the Internet site, email, etc.

Anycast nameservers have three strong points: quick response time, high availability and improved Search Engine Optimization (or Search Engine Optimization).

Response time

Anycast nameservers directs user queries to the nearest server. Reducing the physical distance between user and server as much as possible results in a very low latency.

One might think it’s not that important, but it is! A good response time for the DNS service is one of the most important elements to speed up your website loading.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

A site that takes a long time to load will scare away visitors and considerably increase your bounce rate. Search engines (Google, mainly) have set an average score for what they consider to be an “acceptable” website loading time. By reducing your response time, you improve your search engine score which in turn improves your page ranking.

Availability

Unicast nameservers store DNS records in one place alone. So if the server is down or under attack, your website could simply no longer be accessible if no DNS server was available.
With DNS Anycast on the other hand, there is no risk of that happening. If one of the servers is down, the next server closest to the Internet user in the network will take over. The more servers (nodes) a domain name has within the Anycast networks, the more its availability is guaranteed.