Cloudflare launches its own dns to compete with google and opendns

Cloudflare is launching its own consumer DNS service today. With this totally free and free DNS service, you promise to speed up your Internet connection and help keep it private. The service is using https://1.1.1.1, and it's not a joke, but a DNS service that anyone can use. Cloudflare says it will be "the fastest and most privacy-consuming consumer DNS service on the Internet . "

Cloudflare is launching its own consumer DNS service today

While Google's OpenDNS and DNS exist as an alternative, Cloudflare is largely focusing on the privacy aspect of its own DNS service with a promise to erase all records from DNS queries within 24 hours.

DNS service providers resolve a domain name like Google.com to a real IP address that routers and switches understand. It is an essential part of the Internet, but the DNS servers provided by ISPs are often slow and unreliable. ISPs or any Wi-Fi networks you connect to can also use DNS servers to identify all visited sites, which presents privacy concerns.

Cloudflare has worked with APNIC to offer its DNS service through 1.1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1.

This new DNS will offer support for both DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS, and the company expects its HTTPS support to see more browsers and operating systems that support the protocol. Cloudflare's DNS is currently at a global response time of 14ms, compared to 20ms for OpenDNS and 34ms for Google DNS, making it the fastest DNS solver at the moment.

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