About ΕΛΠΙΣ DNS

Our promise

Six things we stand by

No logs, no profiles

We answer your question and forget it. There's no list of what you looked up, so there's nothing to sell or hand over.

Only the junk gets blocked

Ads, trackers, malware and phishing, and we publish the lists. We don't decide which news, opinions or countries you can reach.

No middlemen

We don't pass your questions to Google or Cloudflare. Our own resolver asks the root servers, on our own networks.

Open source

This website and the resolver behind it are on GitHub. Read them, run them, make them better.

Easy to check

Every claim here can be tested from your own device in a minute, with tools we don't control.

Honest about limits

Encrypted DNS hides which sites you look up. It isn't a VPN and it won't make you anonymous. Anyone saying otherwise is selling something.

What we block

The block lists

These four lists do the work on every filtered endpoint. They aren't secret, so take them for your own AdGuard Home, Pi-hole or Blocky. Family adds adult sites and safe search on top.

1 AdGuard DNS filter ADS & TRACKING

The main one. AdGuard's base, social, tracking and mobile ad filters plus EasyList and EasyPrivacy, made for DNS.

https://adguardteam.github.io/HostlistsRegistry/assets/filter_1.txt

Where it comes from

2 AdAway Default Blocklist MOBILE ADS

Years of Android ad servers, collected by people tired of paying for ads on mobile data.

https://adguardteam.github.io/HostlistsRegistry/assets/filter_2.txt

Where it comes from

3 uBlock₀ filters – Badware risks BADWARE

A short list of sites known to push adware or malware, or to steal logins. Short because every entry has a reason written down.

https://adguardteam.github.io/HostlistsRegistry/assets/filter_50.txt

Where it comes from

4 ΕΛΠΙΣ DNS filter OURS

Fake, dead, parked and scam domains the big lists haven't caught yet, checked by @Riri1x86. It comes with an allowlist, because a filter that breaks your bank login isn't protecting anyone.

https://elpis.violetnetworks.xyz/bogus.txt

https://elpis.violetnetworks.xyz/allow.txt load as an allowlist

Where it comes from

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