Digitalcourage DNS key facts
Last updated- Legal entity
- Digitalcourage e.V.
- Headquarters
- Germany (DE)
- Ownership
- Independent
- Founded
- 1987
- Data hosting
- Germany
- Infrastructure
- external German data center (IP 5.9.164.112 suggests Hetzner)
- Open source
- No
- US Cloud Act exposure
- Low (no US parent)
- Replaces
- Google Public DNS, Cloudflare DNS, Cisco Umbrella (OpenDNS)
About Digitalcourage DNS
Digitalcourage provides public DNS resolvers designed to bypass internet censorship and protect user privacy. Their primary current server, dns3.digitalcourage.de, exclusively supports DNS-over-TLS (DoT) to ensure that DNS queries cannot be read or manipulated during transit. Unlike many commercial DNS providers, Digitalcourage explicitly disables 'EDNS Client Subnet,' a feature that usually passes part of the user's IP to content providers, thereby enhancing anonymity at the cost of some loading speed for global CDNs. The service is managed by Digitalcourage e.V., a long-standing German non-profit organization dedicated to digital civil rights and data protection. The servers are located in Germany and emphasize a strict no-logging policy, where IPs are not stored even in error logs. The project is funded through donations and memberships rather than commercial data exploitation, positioning it as a sovereign European alternative to major US-based DNS providers.
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external German data center (IP 5.9.164.112 suggests Hetzner)
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