DN$ – an innovative, ad-supported DNS resolver
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…
DN$ – an innovative, ad-supported DNS resolver launched on April 1, 2024 with 294 votes, #148 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
DN$ is an ad-supported DNS resolver designed to prevent internet service providers and major tech companies from tracking DNS queries. The service targets users concerned about DNS privacy who are willing to view advertisements in exchange. Built in Rust and open source, DN$ aims to provide a privacy-focused alternative to traditional DNS resolvers by blocking tracking while supporting itself through ads rather than data sales.
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In the maker’s words, at launch
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…
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