Cloudflare has announced its new DNS service on April Fool’s Day but it is not a April Fool’s joke. This new service is called 1.1.1.1. Cloudflare claims that its new DNS service is “the Internet’s fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service.”
If you are not sure what is DNS, you can head over to this article talking about best free DNS servers. There, I also explained about DNS servers. In simple words, DNS servers are the servers that keep records of IP address and domain names. The best thing is that Cloudflare’s DNS is very easy to remember just like Google’s DNS is.
They launched this service on April 1 because of 4/1 (April 1). So, this is not the April Fool’s Joke but a planned launch.
Cloudflare clams that most of the DNS services are often slow and are not respecting privacy. Even if you are visiting a website that is running on SSL, DNS resolver still knows identity of all the sites you visit. So, your ISP knows every site you’ve visited while using them. You can solve this problem by using VPN, but Cloudflare claims to solve it on DNS level. The company claims that they never write users’ IP addresses to disk and they always purge logs from their system after 24 hours.
Cloudflare has always focused on securing the Internet with its free and premium caching and security service. Millions of websites use Cloudflare for boosting website’s speed and keeping it safe from several attacks.
