My friend suggested that I should use one of popular DNS servers like Google. Since there are no nearby DNS servers from where I live, I thought I would do a DNS benchmark and to my surprise, According to the result, my default/ISP DNS servers are slightly faster than other DNS servers by 20-30%
With all that said, does it still NOT make sense to switch?
I'll do you one better... Why not host your own internal DNS server?
If you have a spare old PC, you can install your favourite version of Linux (I use Debian and Ubuntu), and they will likely have a guide to create a DNS server using BIND software. It can cache the responses, making subsequent requests faster. If it doesn't have the answer, it can check with a "forwarding DNS server" (i.e. your ISP, or Google DNS, or OpenDNS, etc) to get the answer, and save it.
