Quad9 to exit France
- ID
- 38676
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 22 Oct 2026, 10:32 PM
- Fetched
- 23 Oct 2026, 4:59 PM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoir-france/
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 7.2
- Created
- 23 Oct 2026, 5:00 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developerssaas_founders
What happened
Quad9 will stop offering its free recursive DNS service to users in France on November 24, after a French court ruled in favor of beIN and required Quad9 to block DNS resolution for domain names linked to alleged sports broadcast copyright infringement. The court reduced the penalty from €580,000 to €1,000 per day, but Quad9 says compliance is technically unfeasible and conflicts with its neutral-DNS mission.
Why it matters
If you use Quad9's 9.9.9.9 or 149.112.112.112, or run products/VPNs for French users that depend on it, plan a resolver fallback before November 24. The ruling also shows a court can force a public resolver to alter DNS answers by jurisdiction, so don't assume DNS resolution is globally uniform.
Discussion angle
Should recursive DNS be treated as neutral infrastructure, or is court-ordered domain blocking a legitimate enforcement tool? Ask who in the room would actually notice if their resolver started changing answers by country.