Quad9
Quad9 is a free, recursive, anycast DNS platform that provides end users robust security protections, high-performance, and privacy.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Security-focused
Features
- DNS Server
- DNS Resolver
- Content Filtering
- DNSSEC
- Non profit
- DNS-over-TLS
- Ad-free
- Malware Analysis
- DNS over HTTPS
- DNS filtering
Tags
- DNS Service
- anti-phishing
Quad9 News & Activities
Recent News
- Fla published news article about Quad9
Quad9 to end DNS-over-HTTPS HTTP/1.1 support by December 2025Quad9 has announced it will discontinue DNS-over-HTTPS support via HTTP/1.1 on December 15, 2025. M...
Recent activities
- PredatorQ liked Quad9
- sebastianpaczoski added Quad9 as alternative to HaGeZi DNS
sebastianpaczoski added Quad9 as alternative to Encrypted DNS- ANONS reviewed Quad9
This is by far my favourite DNS at the moment, its power blocking trackers and ads is almost one to one to AdGuard & allows me to go to my Country's ISR webpage which AdGuard blocks. probably because the ISR's webpage has poor or the lack of certificates but Quad9 does the job amazingly without those compromises.
- PearOfJudes liked Quad9
sebastianpaczoski added Quad9 as alternative to CIRA Canadian Shield- TarTar reviewed Quad9
El servicio bloquea sitios maliciosos, pues reviso listas que incluyo en pi-hole y Quad9 ya las tiene como sitio "sin respuesta" o sea no las resuelve y por ende no se puede establecer una conexión (por parte de los virus). Lo recomiendo.
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What is Quad9?
Quad9 is a free, recursive, anycast DNS platform that provides end users robust security protections, high-performance, and privacy.
Security: Quad9 blocks against known malicious domains, preventing your computers and IoT devices from connecting malware or phishing sites
Performance: Quad9 systems are distributed worldwide in more than 70 locations at launch, with more than 160 locations in total on schedule for 2018.
Privacy: No personally-identifiable information is collected by the system. IP addresses of end users are not stored to disk or distributed outside of the equipment answering the query in the local data center. Quad9 is a not-for-profit organization dedicated only to the operation of DNS services. There are no other secondary revenue streams for personally-identifiable data, and the core charter of the organization is to provide secure, fast, private DNS.
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Comments and Reviews
El servicio bloquea sitios maliciosos, pues reviso listas que incluyo en pi-hole y Quad9 ya las tiene como sitio "sin respuesta" o sea no las resuelve y por ende no se puede establecer una conexión (por parte de los virus). Lo recomiendo.
This is by far my favourite DNS at the moment, its power blocking trackers and ads is almost one to one to AdGuard & allows me to go to my Country's ISR webpage which AdGuard blocks. probably because the ISR's webpage has poor or the lack of certificates but Quad9 does the job amazingly without those compromises.
"Quad9 blocks only sites that present a danger to the end user, their equipment, or the network. Quad9 does not block content, and the agreements with threat intelligence providers stipulate that the criteria for blocking be exclusively security-related and not based on other categories."
https://www.quad9.net/service/threat-blocking
I was really liking my NextDNS, but it seemed to conflict w/PortMaster, so I decided to choose between their options and choose Quad9. Quad9 is Swiss, and the Swiss privacy laws are great.
Lately I discovered than Quad9 do a better business to protect you than paid service like Cisco Umbrella and DNSFilter (ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imlFubYv8YY) It is also almost as fast than Google DNS which do nothing to protect you and probably spy on your query.
was a bit faster than google though , and the no logs beats google , but not fast enough for me in the uk ..