April Fools’ Day commemorates the launch of Cloudflare’s own consumer DNS service, a very real and free DNS service designed by a company that views the buying and selling of personal data as toxic.

Web hosting service Cloudflare was down for thousands of users on Monday afternoon, as per DownDetector. Cloudflare said that there is an issue with the 1.1.1.1 public resolver, which resulted in many ...

This past April, Cloudflare and APNIC released a new 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver service whose goal was not only to make looking up Internet addresses faster, but also make them more private. Today, ...

Cloudflare decided to use April Fool’s Day (4/1) to share some news about four 1’s that could help speed your internet browsing. The company announced today that it’s launching a DNS service for ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, has been awarded a $7.2 million contract from the ...

For many enterprises, deploying a fully built-out DNS network may not be feasible. Thus, many have turned to third-party DNS providers. In this review, we look at four major managed DNS providers: Dyn ...

If you're privacy-minded, you probably aren't thrilled that governments seem hell-bent on giving internet providers free rein over your browsing data. Cloudflare just gave you a tool to fight back, ...

The new Cloudflare DNS server, 1.1.1.1, is a free, fast, and “privacy-focused” way to connect URLs to IP addresses. Cloudflare is an internet security service that helps to secure and speed up ...

AT&T has been blocking the new Cloudflare DNS service, but AT&T says the blocking was unintentional and that it will fix the problem soon. The blocking is affecting AT&T home Internet customers who ...

Apple engineers recently worked with web security company Cloudflare to develop a new DNS protocol that better protects user privacy. Known as Oblivious DNS over HTTPS, or ODoH, the goal is to protect ...

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