Domain Name System (DNS)

{% include cardv2.html title="OpenNIC - Service" image="/assets/img/tools/OpenNIC.png" description="OpenNIC is an alternate network information center/alternative DNS root which lists itself as an alternative to ICANN and its registries. Like all alternative root DNS systems, OpenNIC-hosted domains are unreachable to the vast majority of the Internet." website="https://www.opennic.org/" forum="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/discussion-opennic/338" github="https://github.com/OpenNIC" %} {% include cardv2.html title="Njalla - Domain Registration" image="/assets/img/provider/Njalla.png" description="Njalla only needs your email or jabber address in order to register a domain name for you. Created by people from The Pirate Bay and IPredator VPN. Accepted Payments: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Monero, DASH, Bitcoin Cash and PayPal. A privacy-aware domain registration service." website="https://njal.la/" tor="http://njalladnspotetti.onion" forum="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/discussion-njalla/339" %} {% include cardv2.html title="DNSCrypt - Tool" image="/assets/img/tools/DNSCrypt.png" description="A protocol for securing communications between a client and a DNS resolver. The DNSCrypt protocol uses high-speed high-security elliptic-curve cryptography and is very similar to DNSCurve, but focuses on securing communications between a client and its first-level resolver." website="https://dnscrypt.info/" forum="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/discussion-dnscrypt/340" github="https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy" %}

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Encrypted ICANN DNS Providers

ICANN DNS Provider Server Locations Privacy Policy Type Logging Protocols DNSSEC QNAME Minimization Filtering Source Code
AdGuard Anycast (based in Cyprus) WWW Commercial N IPv4, IPv6, DoH, DoT, DNSCrypt N Y Y WWW
BlahDNS Switzerland, Japan, Germany WWW Hobby Project N DoH, DoT, DNScrypt Y Y Y WWW
CZ.NIC Czech Republic WWW Association N IPv4, IPv6, DoH, DoT Y Y N/A N/A
dnswarden Germany WWW Hobby Project N IPv4, IPv6, DoH, DoT, DNSCrypt Y Y Based on server choice N/A
Foundation for Applied Privacy Austria WWW Non-Profit Some DoH, DoT, DNS-over-Onion (experimental) Y Y N N/A
PowerDNS The Netherlands WWW Hobby Project N DoH Y N N WWW
Quad9 Anycast (based in USA) WWW Non-Profit Y IPv4, IPv6, DoH, DoT, DNSCrypt Y Y Based on server choice N/A
SecureDNS The Netherlands WWW Hobby Project N DoH, DoT, DNScrypt Y Y Y N/A
UncensoredDNS Anycast (based in Denmark) WWW Hobby Project N IPv4, IPv6, DoT Y N N N/A

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