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dunDNS: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

dunDNS is a private DNS resolver hosted in Europe. The service answers lookups for trusted destinations and withholds answers for ads, trackers, telemetry and known threats such as malware, phishing and command-and-control domains. You create a profile, choose blocklists and your own rules (allow, deny, rewrite), and use a unique address of the form your-id.dns.dundns.eu. It supports DNS over HTTPS, DNS over TLS, DNS over QUIC, Oblivious DoH and plain UDP/TCP. Devices can be tagged through the hostname or URL path, with separate profiles and family filters. Dashboards and a REST API are available.

The provider is DUNDNS LIMITED, a company in Dublin, Ireland, within the EU. According to the website, the servers run entirely in the EU and data is not exported; data centres are not named. Logging is off for new profiles; if you enable it, you can set retention from one hour to three months. The software is not open source. Third parties are involved in processing email and payments, such as Scaleway and Paddle.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
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 5, 2026

Headquarters	IE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	DNS Privacy & Filtering
Type	Product
Website	dundns.eu ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to dunDNS

The European alternatives to dunDNS 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 dunDNS

dunDNS is headquartered in IE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so dunDNS scores best on data residency.

dunDNS 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 dunDNS 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 dunDNS?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to dunDNS 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 dunDNS?

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

Is dunDNS GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

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

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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