April Fools’ Day commemorates the launch of Cloudflare’s own consumer DNS service, a very real and free DNS service designed by a company that views the buying and selling of personal data as toxic.

Discover expert-recommended DNS alternatives to Google for faster, more secure browsing in 2025 Reviewed by Chris Selph You can use free DNS servers like Google or Cloudflare to make your internet ...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is the Internet address book. DNS determines the correct IP address for websites when users enter domain names like “microsoft.com” or “thewindowsclub.com” into web ...

Dynamic DNS, also known as DDNS, or DynDNS, is a very important tool for mapping domain names to IP addresses. It’s all about allowing a single web address to connect to an IP address that is always ...

Every time you attempt to load a website or request any content on the Internet, a multitude of services and components scurry in the background to deliver it in a matter of seconds. The presence of ...

If there’s no such thing as a free lunch, how can there be a free service that handles a network management function as critical as DNS? That’s what corporate IT executives are wondering as they ...

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