Google Public DNS is a Domain Name System (DNS) service offered to Internet users worldwide by Google. It functions as a recursive name server.
Google Public DNS was announced on December 3, 2009,[1] in an effort described as "making the web faster and more secure."[2][3] As of 2018, it is the largest public DNS service in the world, handling over a trillion queries per day.[4] Google Public DNS is not related to Google Cloud DNS, which is a DNS hosting service.