 Tom here from Orange Systems. I always ask people to leave their thoughts and comments down below and on my DNS video, many of you did. I think a point of clarification was specifically around Next DNS. I pinned a comment to that other video. This is a reply to that video because I said free account and list of the IP address which is the DNS for Next DNS if you use it for free. But many of you encouraged me that I should do this test again with an account set up. So I set one up. So now that we have an account set up, I rerun the numbers and the results are definitely different. So let's dive into that. Now for those of you that didn't watch my other video but I recommend you do, I'm gonna give you the really short vision if you want a longer version of more detail. Well, that's what the other video is for. These are the DNS I tested. This is where I got the sites from. This is the process I use to clean up the site list and clarify which DNS I was going to test and how I dumped them into a spreadsheet. Then this is the bash script that you'll also find in that forum. I'm also putting in exactly the command I use a grep to kind of clean up the file to get rid of some of the dot RU and dot top domains. And then finally we have the results. Now these are the first results were actually done on a list built from October 10th of 2023. And this is where people had problem with me just saying I used Next DNS 45, 90, 28, 131 which is there free. You don't have to register your information with them. I called it just a free account. We as in you can query it for free without any questions but more specifically it's one you don't register with which of course did not score that high in terms of blocking. It resolved 33% of these malicious domains. So I went and created an account which requires now them to register an email and then register an IP address. And then they gave you this feed right here which I turned on all of them people said, hey, if you turn on all the threat detection things like, you know, newly registered domains, dynamic DNS, Next DNS, ads and track blocker list, Google safe browsing, their AI driven threat detection and threat intelligence feeds. And you can see the IP address here. This was a server I spun up over in Leno, slash Akamai just to run these queries. And so I don't mind showing you that IP address. So you have to tell them what IP it's coming from. So they have all this data on you. And the results were actually quite good. So all of you that said, hey, if you turn all those features on a Next DNS and by the way, you notice the IP address changed because they give you once you register with them, a different IP to use, you can see that absolutely known of these were coming through and I thought that was great. So definitely there's a substantial increase in the effectiveness of Next DNS provided you register and let them know where all your data is coming from. And it really comes down to your choice of whether or not you want to have some company and they have a fair price I think if you want to buy a paid account with them they limit how many you can use on the free tier. And then once you reach a certain number of queries you have to do it, but that's really up to you. Do you want to register your data and have all your DNS queries held by a company? Now they have privacy and policy statements but they are for-profit company. And what always bothers me about any of these companies is well, they're holding on to a whole lot of my data and I try to limit how many companies I have holding on to my data because at some point they may get bought or sold to another company that will like to mine all of that data that I have in there because they're like, I wonder what all the queries were that Tom was sending there. And that's the one reason I had chose Quad 9 out of my last list and I still stand by that statement because Quad 9 doesn't have any ability to do it. Now this is really focused on people and their personal use and a lot of people if you want to hide behind a VPN well now you have a privacy thing unless you're revealing your privacy again by giving your DNS queries to a third party company that you registered to. Now there's ways around it, you're gonna set up an anonymous email and get some prepaid credit cards so you can pay them so you've disconnected your identity for it but at some point just using Quad 9 works for me for privacy because they don't log anything. So a lot of this is more me leaning towards privacy on this. I know this is more home lab and home user focus is why I did this video. People asking about an update. This is not necessarily a business use case but I still found it very interesting and I will agree with all of you that said, hey Tom, next DNS if you register with them definitely does a better job. And there's probably several other companies with several other DNS ones I hadn't heard of. I'm sure maybe they're even using some of the same threat feeds and have a also reasonable offer. I just didn't have time to start loading up everyone and registering accounts with all of them to test them. It wasn't really that much in interest me but I do want all of you to be able to test this. That's why I documented how I did it. Give you the entire bash script. This is something you can run yourself. You can run it from home. You can spin up something over the node like I did and spin it up in the cloud and just run those tests, dump those queries in there and decide for yourself what is the ideal situation for you. Either way, once again leave your thoughts and comments down below. Like and subscribe to see more content on this channel and see over in the forums where we can have a more in depth discussion about this and other topics you may have seen on the channels. Also say hi to me any of the socials you'll find over at lornsystems.com whenever you're watching this video. Thanks.