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24 alternatives to LicenseDNS

Software licensing over DNSSEC

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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    Recursive and authoritative DNS server in go, including DNSSEC and DNS-over-TLS - tenta-browser/tenta-dns

    2017 · github.com · 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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    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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    2013 · samarudge.github.io · its alternatives →

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    A simple and powerful tool for querying DNS records

    2020 · nslookup.io · its alternatives →

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    Save millions on software 💸

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Hey everyone. It's Sherub here, author of the Build your own DNS Server challenge on CodeCrafters. Currently it’s available in Rust, Go, and Python and is free while in beta. https://codecrafters.io/dns-server I've kept the challenge accessible but still challenging for an intermediate developer. This challenge, like others from CodeCrafters, is self-paced. You can use any tools you prefer (terminal, editor, etc.) to build the project. At the end of the challenge, you will have created a DNS forwarding server. The server can create and read DNS packets and respond to DNS…

    2023 · app.codecrafters.io · its alternatives →

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    dig +short TXT youpay.govorenefekt.com @1.1.1.1 | fold -s You can base64 encode an image, split to TXT records and send over Internet. Useful in certain circumstances. Like when one of the communicating parties is under severe censorship.

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    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 · its alternatives →

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    We launched an API for custom hostnames today. A simple HTTP post with a hostname gets a temp hostname with CNAME/a record instructions, as soon as DNS is setup we issue SSL and start accepting traffic for that hostname. It's the quickest way we know of to provision custom hostnames: https://fly.io/mix/custom-hostnames/ When we started building Fly, we figured it was too late to "make SSL easy and the customers will come". Lets Encrypt changed the world, and we knew many companies rolling their own SSL support with nginx, Traefik, etc, etc. It seemed like a…

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Monetize your digital products and services

    2016 · netlicensing.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I'm Jarek, and I've built this tool that allows publishing .local domains on the local network using mDNS. It also has a reverse proxy that handles HTTPS termination and port forwarding. I'm working on adding more features, like an index page with all available domains or allowing proxy redirects, so you could redirect from HTTP to HTTPS. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!

    2023 · localcan.com · its alternatives →

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    Professional digital license management

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Focus on your software - let us handle your keys, releases

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    This free, open-source .NET library allows you to license your non-free applications through activation keys. Follow the quick start instructions and try it out in 5 minutes! Available on: NuGet https://www.nuget.org/packages/SNBS.Licensing.ActivationKeys... Website (full docs, downloads) https://snbslibs.github.io/Licensing.ActivationKeys GitHub (downloads, full docs, release notes etc.) https://github.com/SNBSLibs/Licensing.ActivationKeys

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Domain Name Server Debugger

    2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    DNS over HTTPS proxy written in golang. Contribute to satran/dohproxy development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Licensing library sdk, license server for software licensing

    2025 · license4j.com · its alternatives →

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    entryDNS - a DNS service and dynamic DNS.

    2011 · entrydns.net · its alternatives →

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    Detect domain security issues before they hurt your business

    May 2026 · domainscan.tools · its alternatives →

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