Official identity
HQDNS is an independent public DNS resolver and filtering service. Its official website is https://hqdns.sarl, and its official DNS hostname is dns.hqdns.sarl.
On this website, the name HQDNS refers specifically to the personal project at hqdns.sarl. It does not refer to a generic “HQ DNS” label or to a service operated at another domain.
Official DNS endpoints
HQDNS public DNS address: 185.215.166.168
View the official HQDNS public DNS servers.
- DNS hostname
dns.hqdns.sarl- IPv4
185.215.166.168- IPv6
2a02:c207:2355:6761::1- DNS-over-TLS (DoT)
dns.hqdns.sarl- DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH)
https://dns.hqdns.sarl/dns-query
See the setup guides to configure your device.
Service features
- Public DNS resolution
- Ad-domain filtering
- Tracker-domain filtering
- Malicious-domain and phishing-domain filtering
- DNS-over-TLS
- DNS-over-HTTPS
Filtering operates at the domain level. It does not guarantee that every advertisement, tracker or threat will be blocked. No user account is required.
Independence and affiliations
HQDNS is not affiliated with hqdns.org.
HQDNS is not affiliated with Cloudflare DNS, Google Public DNS, Quad9, OpenDNS or AdGuard DNS.
Cloudflare Pages hosts this website, and Contabo provides the VPS infrastructure for the DNS service. Use of these hosting providers does not imply affiliation with their DNS products, endorsement or a partnership.
HQDNS is a personal, non-commercial project. Neither its name nor the .sarl domain identifies a registered company or establishes a legal corporate form.
Learn more
Compare HQDNS with other public DNS servers using their documented addresses and protocol endpoints.
Visit Setup for configuration instructions, Status for manually supplied service information, Privacy for data-processing disclosures and remaining technical checks, and Legal for the non-professional publishing status and hosting providers.