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Digitale Gesellschaft DNS: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Digitale Gesellschaft DNS is a public DNS resolver run by Digitale Gesellschaft, a non-profit organisation based in Switzerland. The service offers encrypted access via DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS, as well as HTTP/3 and QUIC, and deliberately offers no unencrypted port 53. According to the operator, no domains are blocked or filtered. The service is run by volunteers.

The resolvers run on the operator's own hardware in a Swiss data centre, so DNS queries are processed in Switzerland. The operator states that it stores no DNS queries and keeps no personal logs. Switzerland is not an EU member state, so a European organisation should review the privacy notice and terms of use before relying on the service in production. The source code is published on GitHub, but the project page does not state a licence, so the licence should be checked in the repository before reuse.

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Sovereignty score
67 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-380
    Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026
Headquarters
CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
CHVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
DNS Privacy & Filtering
Type
Product
Website
digitale-gesellschaft.ch ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Digitale Gesellschaft DNS

The European alternatives to Digitale Gesellschaft DNS come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Digitale Gesellschaft DNS

Digitale Gesellschaft DNS is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

Digitale Gesellschaft DNS hosts data in Switzerland only. Switzerland is not part of the EU or the EEA, so the GDPR does not apply there directly; the European Commission does recognise Swiss data protection as adequate, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. Our model therefore scores it between EU hosting and hosting outside Europe. If you require strictly EU hosting, take this into account.

Digitale Gesellschaft DNS is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Digitale Gesellschaft DNS together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Digitale Gesellschaft DNS?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Digitale Gesellschaft DNS include AdGuard DNS, AdGuard Home and Blocky. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Digitale Gesellschaft DNS?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Digitale Gesellschaft DNS include AdGuard Home and Blocky. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Digitale Gesellschaft DNS GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Digitale Gesellschaft DNS is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. That makes Digitale Gesellschaft DNS an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 11, 2026.

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Compliance evidence

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