DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service

by stanislavb on 6/12/2025, 5:47:25 AM with 52 comments

  • by JimDabell on 6/12/2025, 6:29:19 AM

    Previous discussion (76 comments):

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44190071

  • by antonkochubey on 6/12/2025, 6:12:04 AM

    https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa...

    Yeah, right. Good timing.

  • by halpow on 6/12/2025, 6:10:42 AM

    "Privacy-focused" unless you need privacy from the EU itself. DNS services know every website your computer connects to before HTTPs comes on, so it's rather sensitive.

  • by zerof1l on 6/12/2025, 8:10:59 AM

    As an EU citizen, I'm happy that we're starting to have more infra and are less reliant on countries outside of EU. However, I'm skeptical of their "privacy-focused" slogan. Most likely they mean that your data won't leave EU. However, EU itself does a lot of tracking and blocking.

    The only true private DNS server is the one you own. It should be a recursive DNS server configured with DNS root zone and DNSSEC. So it would first contact one of the root DNS servers (obtained from ICANN), validate the authenticity of the response ensure it is not tampered with using DNSSEC, and then proceed to call the next server in the chain until the query is fully resolved. Such DNS server would bypass all censorships.

    Also nice is that more and more root servers already support DoT meaning that the request and response would be encrypted preventing intermediaries like your ISP from seeing the data.

    As a last resort, your DNS server can be hosted outside of the country on a server and then you'd connect to it over DoT or DoH.

  • by snvzz on 6/12/2025, 6:42:10 AM

    An EU DNS resolution server, so that the EU can:

    - Censor: So they can refuse to solve a name, or solve to whatever address they mandate.

    - Log: So that you can get criminally prosecuted for having requested resolution of names at any point in the future.

    No thanks. I'll keep my unbound local cache pointed to a tor-based dns-on-tls server.

  • by nektro on 6/12/2025, 6:32:24 AM

    i'm sure many eu citizens will be happy to have a dns option not reliant on american companies

  • by laughing_snyder on 6/12/2025, 9:19:57 AM

    Other european based DNS services: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/public-dns

  • by hunglee2 on 6/12/2025, 6:09:11 AM

    Digital sovereignty becoming a thing. EU needs to go further - erect its own Great Firewall, protect and nurture EU native tech. 400 million people cannot be dependent on an internet controlled by foreigners