Privacy note

Last updated 14 November 2026

This page asks two companies a question you typed. It tells no one who asked.

What leaves your browser

When you run a lookup, your browser sends the domain name and the record type to two public DNS-over-HTTPS services: Cloudflare at cloudflare-dns.com, and Google at dns.google. It sends them nothing else: no account, no identifier, no page address, no referrer. Both answers are fetched directly from those services by this page; there is no server of ours in the middle.

On a first visit, before you type anything, the page looks up pikkola.com as an example, so the console is not empty. That request is the same kind as any other and goes to the same two services.

Those two companies necessarily see the question, the address it came from and the time. Their own privacy terms apply to that. Cloudflare publishes its resolver policy at cloudflare.com and Google publishes its at policies.google.com. If a domain query should not be visible to them, do not look it up here, because a DNS answer cannot be produced without asking a resolver.

What stays in your browser

The last domain and record type you looked up are kept in this site's local storage, so the console opens where you left it. The theme and the interface language are kept the same way. Nothing else is stored, and no copy of the results is sent anywhere. Clearing the site data in your browser removes all of it.

The shareable address in the address bar (for example dns.pikkola.com/?d=example.com&t=MX) contains the domain you looked up, because that is the point of a shareable link. If you copy that address into a chat, the person receiving it sees the domain.

What this site does not do

• No analytics, no cookie, no session recording, no fingerprinting.
• No account and no email collection. There is nothing to sign up for.
• No advertising and no third-party script. The only two network destinations are the resolvers above.
• No log of lookups on our side, because there is no server of ours that receives them.

Hosting

The page is served as static files by Cloudflare Pages. Like any web host, Cloudflare records that a request was served, which includes an IP address and a time, and keeps it for its own operational period. That record exists at the edge, not in an application database, and we do not receive it as a list of visitors.

Fonts and images

Fonts are served from this domain, not from a font network, so opening the page does not tell a third party that you were here. There are no images from elsewhere and no embedded video.

Children

The tool is not directed at children and collects nothing from anyone, so there is nothing to age-gate.

Changes and contact

If this note changes, the date above changes with it. Questions about it can go to hello@pikkola.com.

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