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Products that do what DNS.Surf – Querying DNS Resolution Results in Different Regions does

Vercel's Edge functions support custom deployment regions, and by querying DNS records through DoH, you can obtain the global resolution results of DNS.

1. 1DA
   DN$ – an innovative, ad-supported DNS resolver▲294

   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

2. 2QA
   "q", a DNS query tool with support for UDP, TCP, DoT, DoH, DoQ and ODoH▲140

   2022 · github.com

3. 3
   1.1.1.1 by Cloudflare▲874

   The Internet’s fastest, privacy-first DNS resolver

   2018 · one.one.one.one

4. 4WD
   Which DNS servers are you pointing to?▲283

   2020 · which.nameserve.rs

5. 5GD
   Golang DNS server, including DNSSEC and DNS-over-TLS▲283

   2017 · github.com

6. 6IB
   I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries▲115

   I built a DNS resolver that lets me use https://frontend.numa instead of localhost:5173 — auto-generated TLS certs, WebSocket passthrough, path routing. No mkcert, no nginx, no /etc/hosts.

   Apr 2026 · github.com

7. 7NI
   nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-Hole▲372

   2019 · nextdns.io

8. 8DB
   DNS Benchmark Tool – Compare and monitor resolvers▲59

   I built a CLI to benchmark DNS resolvers after discovering DNS was adding 300ms to my API requests. v0.3.0 just released with new features: compare: Test single domain across all resolvers top: Rank resolvers by latency/reliability/balanced monitor: Continuous tracking with threshold alerts 1,400+ downloads in first week. Quick start: pip install dns-benchmark-tool dns-benchmark compare --domain google.com CLI stays free forever. Hosted version (multi-region, historical tracking, alerts) coming Q1 2026. GitHub: https://github.com/frankovo/dns-benchmark-tool…

   Nov 2025 · github.com

9. 9DA
   Dnsbeat – An Elasticsearch Beat to Monitor DNS Zones▲8

   2020 · github.com

10. 10DD
    Dnsyo – DNS propagation checker▲56

    2013 · samarudge.github.io

11. 11
    NsLookup▲72

    A simple and powerful tool for querying DNS records

    2020

12. 12RD
    Recursive DNS Server Fingerprint▲120

    2017 · recdnsfp.github.io

13. 13
    DNSPerf▲91

    Free DNS performance analytics

    2018

14. 14AS
    A site to look up DNS records▲82

    2017 · dnsrecords.io

15. 15DA
    Dug, A global DNS propagation checker on your CLI▲33

    2021 · github.com

16. 16FD
    File distribution over DNS: (ab)using DNS as a CDN▲72

    2023 · eighty-twenty.org

17. 17KE
    KittenDNS – Easy to setup, rule engine, LetsEncrypt compatible▲107

    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

18. 18PD
    Privacy DNS – free, encrypted, no-logs, DoH, DoT, DoQ, DNSProxy▲14

    2024 · privacy-dns.pw

19. 19DB
    DNS-based alternative to the web for structured data▲59

    2020 · num.uk

20. 20MA
    MassDNS – A high-performance DNS stub resolver in C▲35

    2016 · github.com

21. 214D
    4B+ DNS Records Dataset▲90

    Hi HN, I've been working on building a pipeline to create a DNS records database lately. The goal is to enable research as well as competitive landscape analysis on the internet. The dataset for now spans around 4 billion records and covers all the common DNS record types: A AAAA ANAME CAA CNAME HINFO HTTPS MX NAPTR NS PTR SOA SRV SSHFP SVCB TLSA TXT Each line in the CSV file represents a single DNS record in the following format: www.example.com,A,93.184.215.14 Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!

    2024 · merklemap.com

22. 22IT
    Identifying the DNS server used to fulfill a HTTP request▲17

    2013 · 5f5.org

23. 23
    DNS Lookup & Dig Tool▲4

    Bulk DNS, global propagation & email auth in one click

    Jun 2026

24. 24
    Denisse DNS Checker▲2

    Check DNS propagation from 24 places, as a box of donuts

    Aug 2026 · donutdns.com

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