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24 alternatives to Mess with DNS
do weird DNS experiments
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Mess with DNS launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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How DNS Works▲129Super cute web comics about 'How DNS Works' for beginners!
2015 · howdns.works · 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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Hey HN, I saw a thread a while ago (linked in README) discussing how Wikipedia does a good job keeping track of the domains of websites like Sci-Hub or The Pirate Bay. Someone mentioned checking Wikipedia to find links to these sites, so I thought this would be a fun thing to automate! To try it out, install an extension or modify your hosts file, then type in the name of a website with the TLD `.idk`. For example: scihub.idk -> sci-hub.tw Cheers!
2020 · github.com · 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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NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.
2019 · nextdns.io · its alternatives →
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DNS cleanup is security. We help you automate it.
Nov 2025 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, as a learning experience, I created a small DNS resolver with blocking capabilities and resolution of local host names. There are already tons of good ad-blocking DNS implementations out there. And they do this much better than my implementation. Great examples are Blocky or pihole. So when I set out to "play around", I looked at these projects and tried to modify them. Fortunately for them, but unfortunately for beginners, these are already quite far developed and complex projects. So impatient me set out to "quickly write something in Python". Almost two weekends later, I put in so…
2024 · 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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Requestly▲148Debug & Modify HTTP(s) Requests - loved by 125K+ web devs
2019 · requestly.com · its alternatives →
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DNS Spy▲11Monitor, validate and verify your DNS configurations.
2017 · dnsspy.io · its alternatives →
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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…
2025 · inspector.improvmx.com · its alternatives →
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Register and manage domains directly from your Slack channel
2016 · dnsimple.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · millionshort.com · its alternatives →
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Shady URL▲34Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frighten
2014 · shadyurl.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · dnsspy.io · its alternatives →
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Next DNS▲9Block ads, trackers, and malicious websites. Out of beta now
2020 · nextdns.io · 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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entryDNS - a DNS service and dynamic DNS.
2011 · entrydns.net · its alternatives →
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Dns.toys▲19Free and useful services over DNS accessible on command line
2022 · dns.toys · its alternatives →
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