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+# Unmaintained
+
+ddclient is unmaintained and no further changes will be done nor will issues or pull requests of any kind be accepted.
+
+As alternatives consider <https://github.com/troglobit/inadyn> or <https://github.com/lopsided98/dnsupdate>.
+There will be no support for migrating of ddclient and your current provider might not be supported by those alternatives.
+
+See https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient/issues/528 and https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient/issues/380 for more details.
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 # DDCLIENT
 
 `ddclient` is a Perl client used to update dynamic DNS entries for accounts