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Re:Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver by corobo on Friday January 13, 2017 @12:04PM (#13392418)
For this same reason you'll also get better results from CDN services with Google DNS. 8.8.8.8 will lookup a geo record from (almost) your actual location. 80.80.80.80 will look it up from the USA.

Any CDNs that are using geo-dns will be way slower than they should be outside the US as you'll have been given a US IP to load the content from.

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Re:Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver by manigandham on Saturday January 14, 2017 @02:28AM (#13397369)
Modern CDNs don't use DNS based routing. If a CDN is doing that then they're not really focused on being fast or reliable.
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Re:Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver by sajal83 on Friday January 13, 2017 @11:05PM (#13396792)
Google actually implements a workaround to this issue.its called EDNS client subnet. Freenom does not.
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Re:Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver by corobo on Saturday January 14, 2017 @05:14AM (#13397777)
Ah nice, I'll have to remember that one.
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