Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to NextDNS
The next-generation DNS service.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. NextDNS launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2019 · nextdns.io · its alternatives →
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- 3NA
We just shipped a new feature in NextDNS: Bypass Age Verification. More and more sites (especially adult ones) are now forcing users to upload IDs or selfies to continue. We think that’s a terrible idea: handing over government documents to random sites is a huge privacy risk. This new setting workarounds those verification flows via DNS tricks. It’s available today to all users, including free accounts. We’re curious how the HN community feels about this. Is it the right way to protect privacy online, or will it just provoke regulators to push harder? https://nextdns.io
2025 · its alternatives →
- 4DA
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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- 8WD
2020 · which.nameserve.rs · its alternatives →
- 9KE
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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GloryDNS▲6DNS Based Threat protection & content filtering
Oct 2025 · glorydns.com · its alternatives →
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Block ads and unwanted connections on Android without root
May 2026 · shielddns.us · its alternatives →
- 12SA
2021 · sirendns.com · its alternatives →
- 13RT
Every privacy-focused DNS service requires an account: NextDNS, Cloudflare for Families, Apple's iCloud Private Relay (paid, iOS-only). The protocol that doesn’t require one - ODoH - had basically one well-known public relay operator (Frank Denis on Fastly Compute, default in dnscrypt-proxy). I built a second one and the client to talk to it.
May 2026 · numa.rs · its alternatives →
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Threat protection & content filtering with DNSLayer security
2024 · glorydns.com · its alternatives →
- 15FD
2023 · eighty-twenty.org · its alternatives →
- 16DB
2020 · num.uk · its alternatives →
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Encrypted, secure, private web connection for safe browsing
2020 · its alternatives →
- 19AD
2012 · millionshort.com · its alternatives →
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GateDNS▲2Self-host level DNS control: Protect privacy & block ads.
10d ago · gatedns.app · its alternatives →
- 22AS
2014 · dhcp.io · its alternatives →
- 23PD
2024 · privacy-dns.pw · its alternatives →
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