NSChoose your perspective
Public resolvers can return cached records. Authoritative nameservers answer directly from the zone they serve.
FOLLOW THE ANSWER
A clearer view
of your DNS.
From a domain name to the records behind it.
Query, compare, and understand how the internet finds you.
01 / DNS EXPLORER Live DNS queries
Try a lookup
02 / THE ANSWER
Your next discovery starts here.
Enter a domain above to see its DNS records and the servers that answered.
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A little less mystery. A lot more clarity.
UNDER THE SURFACEDNS, without
DNS, without
the guesswork.
The same reliable lookup engine as AuthLookup, with a fresh perspective on the answers.
Spot the differences
Compare Cloudflare, Google, and Quad9 side by side. Different answers can reflect caching or DNS configuration.
Make sense of TTLs
Time to live tells a resolver how long it may cache a record. A lower remaining TTL means that cache expires sooner.