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Italy demands Cloudflare blocks pirate sites: DNS industry on the brink of disaster?

5. april 2023 3 min. læst Industry news

An Italian court has upheld its order to Cloudflare to block users of its public DNS resolver from accessing three torrent sites. This is very bad news for the entire DNS industry, and could spell doom for many small providers in the long run.

Andrey Meshkov

EU is building its own DNS service. What’s in it for the everyday user?

Opd.: 7. april 2023 6 min. læst AdGuard DNS Data protection Industry news

The EU is building its own public DNS service, which has the potential to make the Internet safer for millions of users. We explain what DNS is, who the 'DNS resolvers' are, and how to start benefiting from using them now.

Ekaterina Kachalova

DNS-over-QUIC is now officially a proposed standard

Opd.: 29. marts 2023 3 min. læst AdGuard DNS Industry news

DNS-over-QUIC, a very promising protocol, is now an official standard. It means that it has received enough community review to be implemented around the world. What has changed globally and how it will affect AdGuard products, read in this article.

Andrey Meshkov

AdGuard's statement in response to the Quad9 injunction

Opd.: 5. april 2023 2 min. læst Industry news

AdGuard supports Quad9 in its fight against what we consider to be an incorrect and dangerous claim that puts free Internet as we know it at great risk.

Vasily Bagirov

DNSCrypt has quit, but you needn’t worry (UPDATED)

Opd.: 26. januar 2024 1 min. læst Industry news AdGuard DNS

The maintainer of DNSCrypt stopped supporting it, closed the repository on GitHub and put the domain on sale. The repository has already been cloned and is now maintained by Dyne. Unfortunately, they do not plan to add any new features, so DNSCrypt is abandoned in favor of the "DNS over TLS" standard.

Ludmila Kudryavtseva

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