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run my own authoritative DNS
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You can use Bind or any other nameserver-server.
But this is one of the things you might want to reconsider. Setup errors might slip in silently and might be hard to diagnose. Complying to the standards like DNSSec and IPv6 on the nameserver might be a challenge without experience.
Next to that, you probably can’t register the domain itself without a third party, and I always advice to not use a different party for nameservers than the party that registered the domain.
Laat point I want to bring up, I would advise against combining name servers with other services, as it is crucial for operating the services, you are creating one giant point of failure. Keep it separated. Seperate hardware
That said, if you accept all these dangers, it’s technically doable. Open the right ports, configure the zone, setup master and slave, read up on glue records, register the name server if needed, setup DNSSec and set the correct name servers in the domain at the party you registered the domain.
Why is that? I register most of my domains at Porkbun, but I usually use Cloudflare’s nameservers as they seem to support more record types, have more features, and have a better UI than most registrars’ offerings.