Privacy

The resolver (doh.emercoin.com)

• What it sees. The name of every site your browser looks up through it, ordinary sites too, not only .emc. It sees names only: not the pages, not what you do on them. It also sees your IP address, which it needs to limit the number of queries per client.
• What it keeps. Nothing about you. It keeps no query logs and no IP logs. The answers sit in a short-lived cache shared by all users. That cache has no addresses in it.
• Who else learns your queries. We resolve names ourselves: the DNS servers of the sites see our server asking, not you. We do not pass your network (no EDNS Client Subnet).
• Cloudflare. The resolver and this search sit behind Cloudflare. It decrypts the traffic on its way to us and so sees the same as we do: your address and the names you look up. Its own policy applies: cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.
• If you do not want to share all your lookups. Browsers send every name to the DoH resolver you set. A local tool such as dnscrypt-proxy can send only the emer zones (.emc .coin .lib .bazar) to us and the rest to your usual DNS.
• If the resolver is down. Firefox in “Increased Protection” falls back to your usual DNS; Chrome with a custom provider does not, and sites stop opening until it is back.

The search

• No query log, no cookies, no accounts, no third-party scripts, fonts or counters.
• Links to the results carry no referrer: the sites do not learn what you searched for.
• The “I am 18+” switch is only a parameter in the address; we remember nothing.

The robot

Once a day it reads the public home page of every name on the blockchain that has an address, and only the home page: to know what each name serves, to index it and to remove what our rules forbid. It reads the page even when robots.txt asks robots to stay away: we must know what we link to. Such a page is used for checking only, its text is not searchable.