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1 Sept 2026
doxx.net opens the free beta
Enrolment is open on all four platforms. No email, no phone number, no password.
Barrett Lyon
2 min read
27 Aug 2026
Where the beta goes next
A short note on what changes when the free beta ends, and what does not.
Barrett Lyon
1 min read
19 Aug 2026
Tunnels without the ceremony
Most of what a tunnel does before it carries a byte is negotiation. Here is what we took out.
Barrett Lyon
3 min read
12 Aug 2026
Twenty-three locations, and counting
Two more sites are live. Both are owned hardware, both on our own ASN.
Barrett Lyon
1 min read
5 Aug 2026
Ars Technica: the company building a second internet
A long read on owned infrastructure, proof-of-work accounts, and what "can’t log" means.
Barrett Lyon
via Ars Technica
21 Jul 2026
Proof of work instead of passwords
No email, no phone number, no password. What replaces them, and what it costs.
Barrett Lyon
1 min read
9 Jul 2026
The mobile clients reach parity
Android now does everything iOS does, including the parts nobody asked about.
Erick Johnson
1 min read
2 Jul 2026
What DNS blocking actually blocks
A blocked domain is not a blocked connection. What the resolver stops, and what it does not.
Erick Johnson
2 min read
30 Jun 2026
A kill switch that fails closed
The interesting state is not "off". It is the second between off and on.
Erick Johnson
1 min read
11 Jun 2026
Inside the parallel internet
Own IP space, own DNS root, own transport. A tour of what "parallel" means in practice.
Barrett Lyon
2 min read
14 May 2026
Why we run our own DNS root
Every lookup that leaves the network is a lookup somebody else can read.
Barrett Lyon
1 min read
6 May 2026
What we mean by zero logging
Not a promise not to look. A design in which there is nothing to look at.
Erick Johnson
1 min read