Reliable cheap or free DNS service?

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I'm looking for a reliable free or cheap DNS service.

I've used FreeDNS at FreeDNS.Afraid.org in the past, but it doesn't always seem reliable... sometimes people say they can't access my website (sometimes I can't access it either) by domain name, and yet if I type in the IP address it works fine, so I assume it's some sort of DNS problem.

Are there any other cheap or free DNS services out there? I need something reliable that I can manage via a web interface (or scripts if they have an API) that I can use to manage the DNS for ~100 domain names.

EDIT: To be clear, I'm looking for DNS hosting, not DNS servers to use for my WAN connection.

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