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Tendzone
Fund, track and get support for the DNS software your organization runs
- Score
- 42
- confidence 39
- Evidence
- 1
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 1
- named in sources
- First version
- 35 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 1984
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: Teams manage DNS inventory, review advisories filtered to their versions, and administer pooled funding budgets—sustained work requiring dense tables and ledgers. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Inventory
Updated 2 hours ago3 to patch
About this appAI proposal
Tendzone helps organizations that depend on DNS keep that software maintained. You list the DNS software you run, pool a yearly maintenance budget, and see where every dollar goes. Funds go to named maintainers or support providers, with a public ledger.
Security notices and new releases are matched to the versions you run, so your team sees what needs patching and by when. When something breaks, you open a support request with the people you fund, and their answers stay in one thread.
It is not a DNS server and does not replace one. It is the funding, tracking and support layer around the software, built for IT leads and procurement who today rely on volunteer-supported open source and want sustained upkeep they can show to auditors.
- Tagline
- Keep the software behind your domain names looked after.
- Voice
- PlainSteadyAccountable
- Why this name
- Tend means to care for something over time; zone points to DNS zones. Together: ongoing care for the DNS you depend on.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
DNS software inventory
List resolvers, authoritative servers and tools by version and host group. Tendzone shows which ones are current, aging or unsupported.
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Advisories matched to you
Security notices and releases are filtered to the versions you list, with a plain summary and a patch-by date you can assign to a person.
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Transparent funding ledger
See what you paid, who received it and what it covers. Share a read-only ledger page with auditors, boards or partner funders.
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Pooled budgets
Several organizations can pool money toward one project or maintainer, so small teams share the cost of sustained work.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Keep the software behind your domain names looked after.
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no prices. The only competitor, NLnet Labs, is described as funded by paying customers, with no amounts. These tiers are a starting point to test.
Watch
Free
- Inventory of up to 10 hosts
- Matched advisories by email
- Public ledger page
Team
$99 a month
- Unlimited hosts
- Push alerts and assignments
- Support threads with funded providers
- Yearly impact report
Institution
Contact us
- Pooled budgets across organizations
- Audit-ready ledger exports
- Single sign-on
- Contract and invoice handling
Would you pay Team · $99 a month?
Your answer tells PWAS which prices people accept. It changes no score.
No answers yet.
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Shared outputs. Each customer publishes a read-only funding ledger and impact page. Auditors, boards, peer organizations and maintainers see it and the invitation to pool funds toward the same projects.
- Do they become customers?
- Viewers of a ledger page are often IT leads at similar organizations and could become payers. Test whether ledger-page visits lead to sign-ups and pooled-budget joins.
- First customers
- Mid-size universities and regional public bodies with a small network team that runs its own authoritative and resolver DNS software.
- Where to reach them
- Network operator communities: Post in operator mailing lists and meetups with a free inventory and advisory matcher.
- Maintainer partnerships: Ask two DNS projects to list Tendzone as a way to fund them and publish the ledger.
- Direct outreach to IT leads: Offer a one-page report of unsupported DNS versions to higher-education and public-sector teams.
- First milestone
- Five organizations in one sector pay for Team or pool a budget toward one DNS project within 90 days.
Why people already pay for this
- Public claimNLnet Labs funds DNS software development through paying customers
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Advisory feedsScheduled jobs reading public security noticesMatches released notices and versions to each customer's inventory.
- This app · Payment splittingStripe Connect for payouts to maintainersLets pooled funds reach named projects and providers with a ledger.
RisksAI inference
- CommercialOrganizations may keep using free open-source DNS software and not pay a third party. Demand for a funding and tracking layer is unproven; the evidence is only a public claim.
- CommercialMaintainers and labs may prefer direct contracts and see an intermediary as friction or competition.
- DataMatching advisories to versions depends on messy public notices and customers' self-reported inventories, so false alerts or misses are possible.
- RegulatoryRouting pooled money to recipients may bring payment, tax and sanctions obligations that vary by country.
- TechnicalWithout agents scanning hosts, inventories go stale. Adding scanning raises security and trust demands.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.