Our evaluation of public DNS services began in May 2015, when DNS expert Mehmet Akcin contributed a guest post comparing the performance of top public DNS providers based on latency measurements to each of their servers. We then reprised his work last year, which revealed similar results in overall rankings (Google’s 8.8.8.8 led in both reports). But a lot has changed since last year. The big news, announced on April Fools’ Day of this year, was Cloudflare’s launch of its public DNS service 1.1.1.1, which it touts not only for its high performance, but also its security and privacy.… Read More »
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