*EU wants to build its own DNS infrastructure with built-in filtering
capabilities**
*
Catalin Cimpanu
January 19, 2022
The European Union is interested in building its own recursive DNS
service that will be made available to EU institutions and the general
public for free.
The proposed service, named DNS4EU, is currently in a project planning
phase, and the EU is looking for partners to help build a sprawling
infrastructure to serve all its current 27 member states.
EU officials said they started looking into an EU-based
centrally-managed DNS service after observing consolidation in the DNS
market around a small handful of non-EU operators.
“The deployment of DNS4EU aims to address such consolidation of DNS
resolution in the hands of few companies, which renders the resolution
process itself vulnerable in case of significant events affecting one
major provider,” officials said in the DNS4EU infrastructure project
revealed last week.
But EU officials said that other factors also played a role in their
decision to build DNS4EU, including cybersecurity and data privacy.
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