Press Room
Everything you need to cover ClearDNS: fact sheet, brand assets, product visuals, publications, and a direct line to the founder. All assets on this page are free to use in editorial coverage of ClearDNS.
About ClearDNS
ClearDNS is an anonymous-by-design internet filtering platform that gives families, teams and organizations customizable control across devices without traditional user accounts. Built around cryptographic policy and device tokens, ClearDNS helps block unwanted categories such as adult content, malware, phishing, gambling, piracy, ads, trackers and distractions at the DNS layer, while reducing the need for emails, passwords and personal identity profiles.
The claim, stated precisely: ClearDNS is an internet filter you can use, and pay for, without an account, an email address, or a name. Your service identity is a set of pseudonymous cryptographic identifiers issued for your policy and devices, not a personal profile. There is no conventional account database of names, emails and passwords to breach, subpoena, or sell, because ClearDNS never creates one. What ClearDNS does technically process and retain is documented openly in the ClearDNS Transparency Center.
Fast Facts
Pay without creating a conventional ClearDNS account: Apple Pay, Google Pay, and the app stores handle payment under their own accounts, and ClearDNS does not require a payer's name, email or payment identity to become the identity used by the DNS service. Encrypted DNS via DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS. DNSSEC enforced through validating resolution paths.
Plans
Every new policy starts with a free 24-hour trial with every feature unlocked, no payment details required. Paid plans, per user per month:
Brand Assets
Product Visuals
App Store screenshots of the ClearDNS iPhone app, as original-resolution PNGs (1284×2778), and two 30-second product tours. Select a screenshot to view it full size.
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Dashboard · dark mode
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DNS leak test
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Protected connection
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Live traffic map
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Protection settings
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GAFAM footprint
Publications
Accountless Authentication: A DNS-Based Architecture for Individualized Service Authorization
ClearDNS, LLC · · 22 pages · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23128122
How DNS-backed authorization supports settings, shared access and recovery without a registration email or account password, with ClearDNS as the working example.
Story Angles
- The end of the account. A paid subscription service with no conventional account, no email username, and no password. Service identity is a 33-character cryptographic credential issued per device. Billing references are maintained separately against the operational policy, DNS requests do not carry payment data, and ClearDNS does not require a payer's name, email or payment identity to become the identity used by the DNS service.
- The GAFAM 55% figure. By our own network measurements, tracking, analytics and telemetry endpoints of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft account for roughly 55% of the background connections a typical device makes. A full methodology report is in progress; early access available to journalists on request.
- Family protection without surveillance. Parents get DNS-level control over what reaches their children's devices, shared through a QR code, without creating profiles on the children or themselves.
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