Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Clean Simple DNS Lookups
Hey HN, Last weekend I vibe-coded a cool website that lets you do easy DNS record lookups. I know you can just use dig or nslookup, but oftentimes I'm too lazy to remember the syntax, and there are less technical users who need to manage DNS entries but aren't comfortable with the command line. We debug customer DNS issues often at ImprovMX, and we typically link to tools like mxtoolbox.com to point out DNS record issues. But those tools seem quite bloated and from the 2000s. I wanted something super clean & simple, and there were a few features I thought were ergonomically needed but…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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NsLookup▲72A simple and powerful tool for querying DNS records
2020 · nslookup.io · its alternatives →
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DNS record lookups just as you like 'em
2017 · dnsrecords.io · its alternatives →
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DNS Digger▲13Blazing fast DNS lookup, WHOIS & record check in one tool
2025 · dnsdigger.xyz · its alternatives →
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Tired of companies snooping through your DNS traffic? Don't you wish you could get advertisements with your DNS records? Today we're introducing the innovative, privacy-focused, ad-supported DNS resolver - DN$! Traditional DNS resolvers provided by your internet service provider, cloudflare, or google could be tracking your internet activity and selling it to third-party data vendors. We at DN$ want to fix that and cut out these nefarious actors (until we've amassed a critical number of users to exploit). In order to support such a radically new business model, our service needs to serve…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · zzzz.io · its alternatives →
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Lookup DNS Records for Any Domain Instantly
Jun 2026 · cbrtool.com · its alternatives →
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I learned about LOC records some time around the start of the year from a post here on hackernews, and I've been slightly obsessed with the idea of mapping them ever since - and now I've finally done so! There ended up being a few more than I expected, but still very much within reasonable bounds.
Dec 2025 · loc.place · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, This is a project [1] I've been working on for a little while and I'm interested in your feedback and point of view. Many of us would have verified a domain name by pasting a string into a DNS TXT record. Some providers ask us to store this DNS TXT record at a domain using a DNS label like "_provider" e.g. _provider.yourdomain.com, and some providers ask that you do it at the zone apex (God help us [2]). The Domain Verification protocol stores a DNS TXT record at a DNS name derived from a hashed "verifiable identifier" (think email, telephone, DID), enabling anyone that can prove…
2023 · domainverification.org · its alternatives →
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My goal was to create a DNS server as simple as the LDAP server I've been contributing to (glauth) and here it is: https://github.com/fusion/kittendns A few things to know about it: - It is easy to configure using a Toml file - I am using it to bail my coredns/etcd instances when under attack - (yes, it also works as a service location server) - It comes with a simple, plain English, rule engine that doesn't do much at this point - It can be used with LetsEncrypt. I use it to retrieve certificates for my home servers. - RFC: all the nice ones :) Anyway, feedback is…
2022 · its alternatives →
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DNSimple CLI▲99Manage Your DNS from the Command Line with DNSimple CLI
May 2026 · dnsimple.com · its alternatives →
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Check MX Records for Any Domain Instantly
Jun 2026 · cbrtool.com · its alternatives →
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hey guys, wanted to show one of my side projects i just made public. the idea is basically another osint tool for pentesters and bug bounty hunters. it watches certificate transparency logs and checks newly-seen domains for exposed stuff like .env files, open .git dirs, config files, db dumps and so on, and puts whatever it finds into a searchable db. you just search a domain (or part of one) and see what's exposed. it's read-only and free. one thing i've been thinking about adding is a way to register for certain keywords and get notified when something new shows up for that search. would…
Jul 2026 · search.cerast-intelligence.com · its alternatives →
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Global DNS Propagation Checker minus query logging.
2021 · dnslookup.in · its alternatives →
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2013 · samarudge.github.io · its alternatives →
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DNS cleanup is security. We help you automate it.
Nov 2025 · its alternatives →
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A global DNS propagation checker that gives pretty output. Written in dotnet core - unfrl/dug
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Discover obscure subdomains w/ this DNS recon tool 4 hackerz
2016 · dnsdumpster.com · its alternatives →
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An experimental high-performance DNS query bruteforce tool built with AF_XDP for extremely fast and accurate bulk DNS lookups. - c3l3si4n/pugdns
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Most other IP lookup tools I've found are mostly just trying to push you to signup for their API, which is fine but less useful if you're just trying to figure out which IP addresses in your log files are from sketchy locations and likely to do bad things to your application. I merged together a bunch of APIs and some of our own honeypot collected data to make something I hope devs and security folks find useful. If you want to try out a "bad" IP, try this one: https://wafris.org/ip-lookup/104.244.72.115
2023 · wafris.org · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We built DNS Directory (https://dnsdirectory.com), a free, searchable database of public DNS servers with live monitoring every 10 minutes. We needed to find an up-to-date list of DNS servers used by carriers around the world for a proxy fingerprinting / web-scraping project but we were shocked to find that it didn’t exist so we built it ourselves in an internal Hackathon We’re adding more features but so far we: Test 77K+ servers every ~10 minutes Allow filtering by uptime, location, security features (ad blocking, malware protection, DNSSEC) Show info on IPv6…
Dec 2025 · dnsdirectory.com · its alternatives →
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