Offshore Nameservers — DNS in Privacy-First Jurisdictions

Your nameservers are the gateway to your entire online presence. Every time someone visits your website, sends you email, or connects to any service on your domain, the process starts with a DNS query to your nameservers. If those nameservers are hosted by a provider in a surveillance-friendly jurisdiction, every query is potentially logged, analyzed, and available to government agencies.

Offshore nameservers place this critical infrastructure in jurisdictions where privacy laws protect DNS data from mass surveillance, warrantless access, and casual government data requests. AnubizHost's nameservers in Iceland, Switzerland, and the Netherlands operate under some of the strongest data protection frameworks in the world.

Beyond legal protection, offshore nameservers provide resilience against jurisdiction-specific takedowns. If your nameservers are all in one country and that country's authorities order them to stop resolving your domain, you go offline instantly. Distributed offshore nameservers ensure your domain remains resolvable even if one jurisdiction takes action.

AnubizHost operates authoritative nameservers in three privacy-friendly jurisdictions: Iceland (ns1.anubizhost.com), Switzerland (ns2.anubizhost.com), and Netherlands (ns3.anubizhost.com). Each location runs redundant nameserver instances on independent hardware with dedicated network connections, ensuring no single point of failure can take your DNS offline.

Our nameserver software is a hardened configuration of industry-standard DNS server software, optimized for security and performance. All servers run on dedicated hardware — not shared virtual instances — with full-disk encryption, minimal attack surface, and automated security updates. Access to nameserver management is restricted to senior engineering staff through multi-factor-authenticated, encrypted connections.

DNS responses are served from our global anycast network, which routes queries to the geographically nearest nameserver location. This means visitors in Europe get responses from our European nodes, visitors in Asia are routed to our nearest Asian PoP, and so on. The result is sub-10ms DNS response times for the majority of global internet users, rivaling the performance of the largest commercial DNS providers.

AnubizHost nameservers operate under a strict zero-logging policy for DNS queries. We do not record the source IP addresses of queries, we do not log query timestamps, we do not track query volumes per domain, and we do not store any data about DNS resolution patterns. Our nameservers process queries in real time and discard all metadata immediately.

This zero-log approach is verified through regular independent audits that inspect our nameserver configurations, memory management, and storage systems. Auditors confirm that no query data is written to disk, transmitted to external systems, or retained in memory beyond the time needed to generate a response. Our audit reports are published in summary form for transparency.

The practical significance of zero-log nameservers is substantial. DNS query logs can reveal the complete list of IP addresses that accessed your website, the timing and frequency of their visits, and which specific services they used. By operating nameservers that retain none of this data, we ensure that neither we nor anyone who might access our systems can conduct this kind of surveillance on your domain's visitors.

Pointing your domain to AnubizHost's offshore nameservers is straightforward. Update your domain's NS records at your registrar to point to our nameserver addresses, then manage your DNS zone through our dashboard or API. If your domain is registered with AnubizHost, our nameservers are assigned automatically during registration.

We support all standard DNS record types including A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, SRV, CAA, NAPTR, and PTR records. Advanced features include DNSSEC signing, weighted round-robin load balancing, failover configurations, and geo-routing that returns different responses based on the querier's location. All features are available through both our web dashboard and REST API.

Migration from other DNS providers is seamless. Our system can automatically detect and import your existing DNS records when you add a domain, minimizing the risk of configuration errors during the transition. We recommend lowering your TTL values before switching nameservers, and our migration guide provides step-by-step instructions for a zero-downtime DNS transition.