Every time you open a website, your device asks a DNS resolver where to find it. It’s a small, invisible step — but one that happens constantly. Over time, these requests create a detailed picture of your online activity.
Encrypted DNS, like DNS over HTTPS or TLS, protects these requests in transit. Your ISP can’t see them anymore, and neither can someone on public Wi-Fi.
That’s a real improvement. But it’s not the full story.
Encryption doesn’t remove visibility — it shifts it. Instead of your ISP, a DNS provider now sees all your queries in one place.
And where that provider operates matters more than most people think.
- Secure DNS protects your traffic.
- Secure jurisdiction protects your data.
There’s a growing shift, especially in Europe, toward keeping data within regional boundaries. Users and companies are paying more attention not just to how data is encrypted, but under which legal framework it exists.
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DNS is part of that shift.
Many widely used DNS services are run by US-based companies. Even when they offer European endpoints, the service itself is still governed outside the EU.
So while your traffic may be encrypted, control over that data often isn’t local.
This is why more people are starting to look beyond features and toward alignment — technically and legally.
- Encryption matters.
- But so does jurisdiction.
At FoxyDNS, the goal is to combine both.
FoxyDNS operates globally, while allowing users to explicitly choose EU-based DNS endpoints — keeping queries within European infrastructure and under EU data protection standards.
Encryption is a step forward.
But where your data ends up — and who is responsible for it — is what actually defines privacy.
