Welcome to the DNS Privacy project home page 
This site is the home of a collaborative open project to promote, implement and deploy DNS Privacy. The goals of this project include:
- Raising awareness of the issue of DNS Privacy
- Empowering users to take advantage of DNS Privacy tools and resources (client applications, DNS Privacy resolvers)
- Evolving the DNS to support DNS Privacy in particular developing new DNS Protocol standards
- Working towards full support for DNS Privacy in a range of Open Source DNS implementations including: getdns, Unbound, NSD, BIND and Knot (Auth and Resolver)
- Co-ordinating deployment of DNS Privacy services and documenting operational practices
Among the many contributors to this project are Sinodun IT, NLnet Labs, SalesForce, Surftnet, NLnet Foundation, OTF, Stephane Bortzmeyer and No Mountain Software.
See past DNS Privacy work
June 2019
- NSD 4.2 supports DoT - first open source authoritative server to do this!
May 2019
- Interesting analysis of the current DoT/DoH software picture: https://doh.defaultroutes.de/implementations.html
- UK House of Lords Agenda for 14th May includes a Question on DoH. This follows much media coverage in the UK e.g.
- The Times article "Warning over Google Chrome browser’s new threat to children"
- Daily Mail "Google's plans for new encrypted Chrome web browser could make it harder for UK government to stop computer users watching porn online"
- "Crisis talks are being held on May 8 by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), part of GCHQ, to discuss the risks the new encrypted browser will present, "
- PC Pro article on DoH
- Much discussion of DoH at 2019 the ICANN DNS Symposium (including a panel in the afternoon session)
- Good talk on the DoH Dilema by Vittorio Bertola
- ISP centric view of DoH by Andy Fidler of British Telecom
- And the view of Paul Vixie on Benefits and Hazards of Non- Local DNS Resolution
- Panel on DoH (1hr 50 mins into this recording)
- Interesting.... https://www.nextdns.io: “The next-generation DNS”, a hosted, private DNS resolver with DoT and DoH support and blocklists.
- Quad9 have launched their own mobile app "Quad9 Connect" for Android
- Along with a statement they will never host web content on the same IP as a DoH endpoint.
- The ISP Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) launches a Beta trail of DoT and DoH (article is in Japanese)
April 2019
- Mozilla statement on their DoH TRR policy requirements.
- Knot resolver adds experimental DoH in 4.0.0!
- Latest results from Mozilla on their Firefox DoH testing
Overview of DNS Privacy Status
High level overview of ongoing work on DNS Privacy with monthly updates
DPRIVE Working Group
Catch up with the latest standards being developed to support DNS Privacy: DPRIVE Working group
Reference Material
For a list of useful RFCs, Internet Drafts and presentations see the Reference Material page.
Support
Thanks to NLnet Foundation and OTF for donations to support DNS Privacy work. Thanks for past support from Verisign Labs.
Contact
If you are interested in contributing to the project please contact:
- Sara Dickinson (sara@sinodun.com)
- Allison Mankin (allison.mankin@gmail.com)
- Benno Overeinder (benno@NLnetLabs.nl)
We now have a twitter account: and a YouTube channel
Comments, JIRA and Bitbucket Access
After a spate of spam comments we have reluctantly change permissions so that commenting on pages requires a user account. An account also provides access to submit general privacy issues in the issue tracker and contribute to the code repositories create a user account (note that Stubby has it's own issue tracker in github):