This week, the service team replaced all the content on its website with a short announcement about shutting down.
“The dns0.eu service is no longer operational. We would like to continue supporting it, but this has proven impossible in terms of time and resources,” the DNS0.EU operators said.
The team thanked their infrastructure and security partners and recommended that users switch to DNS4EU — a privacy-focused resolver developed by ENISA — or to NextDNS, whose founders helped create DNS0.EU.
DNS0.eu was a public recursive DNS resolver, launched in 2023 as a French non-profit organization. The service promised users no-logs operation, end-to-end encryption to protect against eavesdropping and data tampering, as well as protection from malicious domains—be they phishing sites or malware command-and-control servers.
Users were offered a free, secure, GDPR-compliant resolver with support for DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS, DNS-over-QUIC, and DNS-over-HTTP/3. The service operated on 62 servers across 27 cities in EU member states.
DNS0.EU also provided parental control filters, blocking adult content, piracy, and advertising, and it detected potentially dangerous domains by analyzing typosquatting, patterns of parked domains, TLD reputation, homograph domains, and URLs generated using DGAs.
The alternatives recommended by the service team (DNS4EU and NextDNS) also provide protection against fraudulent and malicious content. NextDNS, in particular, offers more granular filtering of websites and applications via privacy, security, and parental control settings.
DNS4EU, co-funded by the EU and developed by ENISA (the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity), is easier to configure and offers IP address resolution, blocking access to sites with fraudulent or malicious content, protection against explicit materials and content unsuitable for children, as well as ad blocking.