Cloudflare 1.1.1.1
Speed and unfiltered resolution. The default choice when you want a fast, neutral resolver and no filtering.
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Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 is the public recursive DNS resolver operated by Cloudflare, launched on April 1st, 2018. It runs on Cloudflare's global edge network of more than 300 cities, which routinely tops independent benchmarks for resolution speed. Cloudflare explicitly does not sell user data; the company commits to retaining query logs for no more than 24 hours, with KPMG auditing the practice annually.
The default 1.1.1.1 / 1.0.0.1 endpoints perform no filtering. Two sibling endpoints — 1.1.1.2 (malware blocking) and 1.1.1.3 (malware + adult content) — are useful for households or networks that want filtering without running their own resolver. All Cloudflare resolvers support DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), DNS-over-TLS (DoT), and DNSCrypt.
Its main trade-off is centralization: a meaningful share of the public internet now routes DNS through Cloudflare, which makes it a single point of observability (and, in theory, a single point of failure). Pair it with a secondary resolver from a different provider if outage redundancy matters to you.