Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Your DNS Records Could Be a Weapon
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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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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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 →
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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 record lookups just as you like 'em
2017 · dnsrecords.io · its alternatives →
- 5SA
2021 · sirendns.com · its alternatives →
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Kit.domains▲198Hello Hacker News community, We are excited to announce the launch of KIT.DOMAINS, our new tool designed to simplify the management and monitoring of domains. KIT DOMAINS is a convenient and reliable solution for tracking the status of your domains and SSL certificates. With KIT DOMAINS, you will receive timely notifications about expirations and emerging issues, ensuring your sites remain operational and secure. Key features: - Expiration Tracking: Monitor the expiration dates of your domains to prevent accidental lapses. - SSL Certificate Monitoring: Keep your SSL certificates up-to-date…
2024 · kit.domains · its alternatives →
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DMARC Digests▲101Protect your brand from email scammers.
2020 · dmarcdigests.com · its alternatives →
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NsLookup▲72A simple and powerful tool for querying DNS records
2020 · nslookup.io · 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 →
- 12RD
2017 · recdnsfp.github.io · its alternatives →
- 13DS
2017 · dnsspy.io · its alternatives →
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DNS Spy▲11Monitor, validate and verify your DNS configurations.
2017 · dnsspy.io · its alternatives →
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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 · its alternatives →
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entryDNS - a DNS service and dynamic DNS.
2011 · entrydns.net · its alternatives →
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- 21PD
2024 · privacy-dns.pw · its alternatives →
- 22CS
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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Next DNS▲9Block ads, trackers, and malicious websites. Out of beta now
2020 · nextdns.io · its alternatives →
- 24DS
2017 · dnsspy.io · its alternatives →
Also compare
- DN$ – an innovative, ad-supported DNS resolver alternatives
- NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification" alternatives
- nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-Hole alternatives
- A site to look up DNS records alternatives
- SirenDNS – A Watchtower for Your Domains (Anti-domain-squatting) alternatives
- DNS Diagnosis alternatives
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