Register No. 025
Is Digitalcourage European?
Yes. Digitalcourage is under verified European control.
Latest
Nothing new on file since the check on 4 September 2026. Seen news about Digitalcourage? Send it with a source.
- Controlled by
- Digitalcourage e.V.; the members' assembly elects and controls the board
- Control sits in
- Germany
- Seat
Germany- Last checked
About Digitalcourage
Digitalcourage is a German non-profit organisation that operates a public DNS resolver anyone can point their devices at. The resolver is hosted in Germany and supports DNS over TLS, so lookups can be encrypted between your device and the server.
Evidence 2
- Digitalcourage current bylawsdigitalcourage.de ↗
- Digitalcourage transparency reportdigitalcourage.de ↗
Sources were opened and read on the date of the check. Registers and websites change; if one of these no longer says what we cite it for, tell us.
Product
Digitalcourage
digitalcourage.de ↗Uncensored public DNS from Germany
Being run by a German civil rights organisation makes this a European alternative to the large American public resolvers. Note that the page explaining the service is only available in German. It suits privacy minded users who are comfortable changing DNS settings themselves.
- Instead of
- 1.1.1.1, Google Public DNS and OpenDNS
- Suits
- Privacy minded users who want a non-commercial resolver
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Operations
Who runs the parts of the service we could observe from outside, checked 4 September 2026. A provider's control can differ from where its servers stand.
| Part | Provider | Provider control | What we saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public website | Hetzner | European | A 94.130.145.107 · AS24940 [1] [2] |
| Incoming email | mail.digitalcourage.de | Unknown | MX 0 mail.digitalcourage.de [1] |
| Outgoing email | Direct or undisclosed mail senders | Unknown | SPF v=spf1 ip4:212.8.198.0/26 ip4:212.8.198.128/26 ip4:212.8.200.192/29 ip4:148.251.208.235 ip4:144.76.134.221 ip4:88.198.81.194 ip4:46.4.203.238 ip4:188.40.174.29 ip4:78.47.226.50 ip4 [1] |
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