Safeguard billions of shared links, block malicious profiles, enforce DSA and GDPR compliance, and stop bot-driven spam campaigns with DNS filtering across 90 million categorized domains.
Social media platforms process billions of URLs shared by users every day. DNS filtering intercepts malicious domains at the resolution layer before harmful content ever reaches your users.
Users share millions of links per hour. DNS filtering instantly classifies every linked domain against 58 categories, blocking restricted sites, unsafe content distribution domains, and scam pages before they load in user feeds.
Coordinated bot campaigns rely on restricted domains for orchestration. DNS filtering disrupts bot networks at their communication backbone, preventing automated spam and manipulation campaigns.
The Digital Services Act mandates proactive content moderation. DNS-layer filtering provides an auditable, automated first line of defense that demonstrates compliance with EU regulatory requirements.
Unique content risks facing social platforms that DNS-layer filtering addresses at scale
Attackers create look-alike profile pages hosted on newly registered domains to harvest credentials. DNS filtering detects and blocks access to these impersonation domains using real-time content classification, protecting users from credential theft.
Malicious actors embed harmful redirects within advertising creatives. DNS filtering screens ad destination URLs at the resolution layer, preventing users from being redirected to exploit kits or fraudulent landing pages.
Automated scrapers exfiltrate user data to external servers for resale or exploitation. DNS filtering blocks outbound connections to known data collection domains, adding a critical layer of defense against unauthorized data harvesting.
Platforms serving younger users must prevent exposure to age-inappropriate content. DNS category filtering enables granular content policies that block harmful domain categories for accounts identified as belonging to minors.
State-sponsored influence operations use networks of domains to distribute disinformation. DNS filtering identifies and blocks infrastructure associated with coordinated campaigns by analyzing domain registration patterns and hosting relationships.
High-profile creator accounts are targeted through restricted domains mimicking platform login pages. DNS filtering blocks access to credential harvesting domains specifically targeting social media creators and influencers.
Purpose-built capabilities for protecting social media ecosystems at DNS resolution scale
Every URL shared on your platform is checked against our database of 90 million categorized domains in under 5 milliseconds. Malicious, restricted content, and spam domains are flagged before content reaches user feeds.
Identify and disrupt bot network restricted domains. Our content classification feeds continuously update with infrastructure used by automated account farms and coordinated spam operations.
Apply different DNS filtering policies based on user age groups. Enforce strict content category restrictions for minor accounts while maintaining appropriate access for verified adult users.
Generate automated compliance reports documenting every blocked domain, categorization decision, and content moderation action. Meet EU Digital Services Act transparency obligations with structured audit trails.
Screen advertising destination URLs and third-party tracking domains. Ensure no ad creative directs users to malicious destinations, protecting both advertisers and platform users from malvertising content risks.
Integrate domain classification directly into your content pipeline via RESTful API. Check domains during post submission, comment posting, or message sending with sub-5ms response times at any scale.
How social platforms leverage DNS filtering to protect their communities
A major social platform integrated DNS filtering into their content submission pipeline. Every URL in posts, comments, and bios is classified in real time. Malicious links are automatically hidden from feeds, reducing user exposure to restricted content by 97%.
An ad-supported platform deployed DNS filtering across their ad serving infrastructure. Every creative click-through URL is verified at the DNS layer, blocking malvertising before it reaches users and protecting advertiser brand reputation.
A messaging platform used DNS query pattern analysis to identify bot farms communicating with shared restricted infrastructure. By blocking these coordination domains, they disrupted automated spam campaigns that were degrading user experience.
A platform with a large young user base implemented age-based DNS policies that restrict access to 12 harmful content categories for accounts belonging to minors, satisfying both regulatory requirements and parental expectations.
High-value creator accounts received enhanced DNS protection that blocks access to known credential restricted domains targeting their login flows. Account takeover incidents dropped by 89% within three months of deployment.
A European social network automated DSA compliance reporting by generating domain-level moderation logs from their DNS filtering data. Quarterly transparency reports now take hours instead of weeks to compile.
Secure billions of shared links, block bot infrastructure, and meet regulatory compliance with enterprise DNS filtering built for social media scale.