A European alternative to Cloudflare DNS and Cloudflare Tunnel

NorthDNS covers the most common Cloudflare uses for a domain: authoritative DNS, DNSSEC, an HTTPS proxy with caching and WAF, and tunnels for local services. It also includes email with your own domain. Infrastructure and operator are in Europe.

• NorthDNS uses two nameservers and edge nodes in Italy and the Netherlands, not a global anycast network: for mostly European audiences the difference is small; for worldwide traffic Cloudflare remains more distributed.
• It does not register domains: your domain stays with your registrar.
• We do not promise protection from volumetric DDoS attacks: WAF, rate limiting and a browser check are available.

1. Export the zone from Cloudflare (DNS → Records → Export).
2. Import it into NorthDNS from the domain’s DNS page.
3. If DNSSEC was active on Cloudflare, disable it and remove the DS at the registrar before switching.
4. Change the nameservers as described in Delegating a domain.
5. Turn the proxy back on for website records and, if needed, enable DNSSEC on NorthDNS.

NorthDNS tunnels publish a local service on a stable HTTPS subdomain of your own domain, with an agent for Linux, Windows and macOS and without opening ports.