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DNS isn't a service (in the same way as AWS and CloudFlare). It's a fundamental component of the world wide web.
I mean, unless you'd rather type IP addresses in to your URLs, anyways.
I mean, I do put in http://149.13.0.80/radio1hi.aac to listen to Radio 1. I also use it to test my network when DNS potentially screwed up.
I used to remember the domain name, then I did the IP for fun, now I only remember the IP. Perhaps I could do reverse lookup, but it's been working for quite a while now.
Aren’t IPs prone to change though?
If it does what’s stopping someone from somehow getting that IP and hosting a fraud site?
The same thing that stops people from getting access to your domain registration and changing the IP. You have a contract with your provider (ISP or DNS) which says that you own that IP/Hostname.
Your home IP address changes, but most business or commercial accounts are given a static IP address (or blocks of IP addresses) which never changes.
Comcast used to offer this for an extra $10/month to residential customers. Not anymore.
Yeah, I used it until they rolled it into the business accounts (which I upgraded to in order to dodge data caps and have a symmetrical connection, because bittorrent).
I think in this case it'd be the user not putting in any sensitive data or downloading executables to run from an internet radio.