Hello. I've decided a couple weeks ago to work on a small and free no-ip alternative called "IPrekt".
www.iprekt.comIt basically allows you to create an address that will always point to your dynamic IP when it changes. (Ideal for when you want to create a local gameserver, or quickly test a botnet, etc..) It comes with an "auto-synchronize" option in the website for this to happen, and will soon have a DUC (Dns Update Client) for windows, mac and linux to monitor your IP change in the background and instantly update your address.
It also has a simple API for creating and updating addresses (pretty handy for your arduino or raspberry pi and internet of things type of projects) at :
http://www.iprekt.com/?p=apiThe service was built to be extremely fast and reactive, from the creation of your address to you using it and connecting to it. No captchas, no account registration. It has a TTL of 1 second, which means, when you change your adress' ip it literally takes no more than a second or two for the results to go public. Here's a demo :
https://youtu.be/NJHzeSJdaXoThe service is free and still is very new, so any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
I hope it would be of great use to some of you someday.