DNS resolvers
DNS4EU privacy rating
Public DNS resolver co-funded by the European Union and operated by a consortium led by Whalebone in the Czech Republic. It offers protective, child-safe, ad-blocking and unfiltered variants over DoH and DoT.
Summary
DNS4EU scores 41 out of 100 (grade D) on the DNS resolvers criteria. It meets 4 of 11 criteria: no ads or data sales, TLS configuration, Encrypted DNS and DNSSEC validation. It partly meets no query logs. It does not meet open source, no trackers or telemetry, independent audit, transparency report, tells users about requests and security headers. It is based in Czechia: Not in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes; EU member (GDPR). Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A+ and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade C-.
Score 41 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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No
No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3
Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
The website loads Google Tag Manager and HubSpot.
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Yes
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
Co-funded by the European Union. The resolver policy rules out selling or transferring IP addresses or user identifiers.
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No
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
No independent audit is published.
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No
Transparency report Weight 2 of 3
Does the provider regularly publish how many government and legal requests it receives and how it responds?
No transparency report or government request policy is published.
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No
Tells users about requests Weight 1 of 3
Does the provider promise to tell users about requests for their data, unless a court forbids it?
No published policy on notifying users about data requests.
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Yes
Encrypted DNS Weight 3 of 3
Are DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS supported?
DoH and DoT endpoints are listed for each resolver variant.
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Partial
No query logs Weight 3 of 3
Are queries stored without IP addresses, and is this independently audited?
Client IP addresses are anonymised with a keyed hash on the resolver before logging. Not audited.
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Yes
DNSSEC validation Weight 1 of 3
Does the resolver validate DNSSEC?
A test query for the deliberately broken dnssec-failed.org returns SERVFAIL, showing validation.
Automated tests
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Yes
TLS configuration Weight 2 of 3
Does the website pass the Qualys SSL Labs test with a grade of A or better?
Grade A+
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No
Security headers Weight 1 of 3
Does the website pass the Mozilla HTTP Observatory test with a grade of A or better?
Grade C- (45/100+)
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Not tested yet
Modern web standards Weight 1 of 3
Does the website score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl website test?
Not tested yet.