Work · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to UK DNS Privacy Project

Privacy-First Public DNS Resolver for the UK

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

1. 1
   1.1.1.1 by Cloudflare▲871

   The Internet’s fastest, privacy-first DNS resolver

   2018 · one.one.one.one · its alternatives →

2. 2DA
   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 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   The 1.1.1.1 App▲689

   Faster, more private internet by Cloudflare, now on mobile

   2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

4. 4PD
   Privacy DNS – free, encrypted, no-logs, DoH, DoT, DoQ, DNSProxy▲14

   2024 · privacy-dns.pw · its alternatives →

5. 5RT
   Running the second public ODoH relay▲125

   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 →

6. 6
   DNS0.eu▲4

   The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer.

   2023 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Faster Browser & more private internet.▲9

   Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first DNS service

   2018 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   DNSPerf▲91

   Free DNS performance analytics

   2018 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Your VPN▲87

   Setup a VPN on a private Linux server in minutes, for free

   2019 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    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 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Freenom▲7

    A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver

    2017 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    AdGuard DNS 2.0▲95

    Your own privacy protection center

    2022 · its alternatives →

13. 13DP
    DNS-powered website with no back end▲83

    2021 · companydirectory.uk · its alternatives →

14. 14OS
    Open-Source Unbound DNS Resolver Docker Image▲16

    Hey Hacker News! I am madnuttah, I am a Windows/Linux Sysadmin and some folks may remember this username for "niche" mods I've made for Fallout and Skyrim and some C# UWP Windows Store Apps which I've retired because of Microsoft's unclear strategy abandoning things from one day to another. Why am I writing this? I wanted to be independent from the DNS servers of my provider, because they have often shined brightly with problems in the past instead of functioning properly, wanted to have a little bit more privacy and freedom back by fighting censorship via DNS, so I built my own Unbound…

    2022 · its alternatives →

15. 15AS
    A site to look up DNS records▲82

    2017 · dnsrecords.io · its alternatives →

16. 16
    ODoH▲6

    Improved DNS Privacy

    2020 · its alternatives →

17. 17SD
    Sinkzone DNS – Forwarder that blocks everything except your allowlist▲96

    Most site blockers work by blacklisting distractions. That never worked for me, the internet is too big, and there’s always something new to waste time on. I wanted the opposite: allowlist‑only browsing. Block everything by default, and explicitly allow only what I need. So I built Sinkzone: a local DNS forwarder with two modes: Monitor mode: lets all traffic through, but logs every domain so you can decide what to allow. Focus mode: only allowlisted domains resolve; everything else is blocked (NXDOMAIN). It’s open source, written in Go, and runs locally on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Works a…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    DNS Shield▲13

    Encrypted - No logging DNS

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    WifiMask VPN▲83

    Internet privacy, security & freedom

    2016 · its alternatives →

20. 20OD
    Open database tracking 77K public DNS servers every 10 minutes▲7

    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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    LHDNS▲7

    A privacy-preserving naming layer for the internet

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Self Hosted Project▲11

    Own your VPN server. Privacy the way it should be.

    Oct 2025 · shp.network · its alternatives →

23. 23
    DNS Directory▲5

    Free and Live-monitored Database of 77k+ Public DNS Servers

    Jan 2026 · dnsdirectory.com · its alternatives →

24. 24GB
    GitHub-based DNS Hosting▲37

    2014 · dns-api.com · its alternatives →

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