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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. DNS spy, monitoring for a more robust DNS setup launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1DS
  2. 2DM
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    DNS Spy▲11

    Monitor, validate and verify your DNS configurations.

    2017 · dnsspy.io · 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 →

  5. 5DC
  6. 6RD

    2017 · recdnsfp.github.io · its alternatives →

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    No censorship. No Bullsh*t. Just DNS.

    2015 · dns.watch · its alternatives →

  8. 8DD

    2013 · samarudge.github.io · its alternatives →

  9. 9SH

    2016 · monitorwebsitefilechanges.cloud · its alternatives →

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    A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver

    2017 · freenom.world · its alternatives →

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    A high-performance DNS stub resolver for bulk lookups and reconnaissance (subdomain enumeration) - blechschmidt/massdns

    2016 · github.com · 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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    Monitor DNS queries by host processes using eBPF! Contribute to furkanonder/DnsTrace development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.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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    Global DNS Propagation Checker

    2016 · whatsmydns.net · its alternatives →

  17. 17AS

    2020 · simple-scanner.com · its alternatives →

  18. 18DC
  19. 19DA
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    DNS lookup & propagation checker

    2025 · dnsfinder.org · its alternatives →

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    Detect domain security issues before they hurt your business

    May 2026 · domainscan.tools · its alternatives →

  23. 23GV
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    DNS cleanup is security. We help you automate it.

    Nov 2025 · its alternatives →

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