Privacy Policy

ServerRecords does not require an account and does not store your lookups on our servers. Each look up is performed on demand and the result is returned directly to your browser.

What we send to third parties

To answer a look up, the domain or IP address you enter is sent to the relevant public DNS resolvers, a DNS-over-HTTPS service (for DNSSEC-family records), DNS blacklist (DNSBL) providers, the RDAP registration data service, and — for HTTP, security-header, SMTP and similar checks — directly to the server that hosts the domain you entered. This is how these look ups fundamentally work, and is unavoidable for the tool to function.

Local storage & the History panel

If you accept local storage from the cookie notice, your recent lookups (the query, look up type, and results) are saved in your browser's local storage so the History panel can show them again later. This data stays on your device — it is never sent to us. You can clear it at any time using the "Clear" button in the History panel, or by rejecting consent (via "Manage cookie preferences" in the footer), which also removes anything already stored.

Cookies, analytics & advertising

With your consent, we use Google Analytics 4 (to understand aggregate, anonymous usage) and Google advertising, which may set cookies to deliver, measure and personalize ads. We use Google Consent Mode v2: by default all analytics and advertising storage is denied — no analytics or advertising cookies are set, and only limited, cookieless signals may be sent. When you accept, we grant analytics_storage, ad_storage, ad_user_data and ad_personalization; Google may then set cookies, collect usage and advertising data, process it on servers outside your country under its own safeguards, and act as a controller for ad personalization under its own privacy policy. Analytics is configured with IP anonymization. You can withdraw or change your choice at any time via the cookie-preferences link in the footer, which disables analytics and advertising again.

Data retention & re-consent

Your cookie choice is remembered for 24 hours; after that it is cleared and the banner asks again. Any lookups saved in the History panel are automatically deleted after 24 hours. You can withdraw consent or clear your data sooner at any time — via the cookie-preferences link in the footer, or the clear button in the History panel.

Necessary processing

Some processing is essential to run the service and happens regardless of your cookie choice (and does not require consent): requests are rate-limited per IP address to keep the service available to everyone — no personal data is retained beyond the short window needed to enforce the limit — and your browser's session storage is used to carry your results between pages within a single tab, cleared when the tab closes. This is separate from the optional analytics, advertising and history cookies described above.