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This page contains more details and explanations for some of the features of NX Enhanced.

Logs page:

• _{An Allow/Deny button for each log entry}

  

  This make it possible to add an exception or block a domain without needing to copy, switch pages, and paste. When clicked, it pops a small dialog with the domain respective to the button clicked, allowing you to edit the domain name if you want, and when finished, just press Enter or click on the "Allow/Deny domain".

  If you want to allow/deny a whole root domain, you just need to click on the "Allow/Deny root". In case you are unsure what is the root domain, just hover over the "Allow/Deny root" button and it will tell you in a tooltip what is the root domain.

• _{Ability to specify domains that should be hidden from the logs}

  

  You can either manually type (or paste) domains, or click on the "Hide" button, alongside the Allow/Deny buttons, which lets you hide domains with few clicks. Clicking on it opens the same popup used by the "Allow/Deny" buttons, enabling you to edit the domain first if you want, or hiding the whole root domain. If you click on the "Filters" button, you can view and edit the current list of domains set to be hidden. All domains that include any one of these domains are hidden. By default, it hides *.nextdns.io and *.arpa queries, but can be changed as you like. You can also temporarily disable the filtering, by switching off the "Enable filtering" switch. (Note: the specified domains are hidden only from you, it doesn't remove from the server.)

• _{Refine a search with multiple search terms or exclusion terms}

  

  Only the first term is actually responsible for the search, the other terms are used by NXE to filter the results accordingly.
  For example: you can search for api google -phone -video, which means "list all log entries that contain in the domain name the text api, then out of those results show only results that contain google, and hide any result that contain phone or video". There's no limit for how many search terms you can specify. The order of the terms doesn't matter, but you just need to make sure that the first term is not an exclusion term, i.e. the first term should not start with a - .

Security page:

• _{A button that allows you to add every TLD in the "Add a TLD" screen in one click}

  

  This will take around 30 seconds to finish, but it can take much less, depending on your connection's latency. During the process, a modal dialog will popup with instructions:

  

Allowlist/Denylist pages:

• _{Ability to add a description to each domain in the deny/allow lists}

  

  Just click on the "Add a description" message, input the description/label you want and press Enter to save it. Having done that, anytime you open the allowlist/Denylist pages, the description will appear beside the respective domain name.

Settings page:

• _{Ability to export/import all settings from/to a config}

  

  All settings and entries from the Security, Privacy, Parental Control, Denylist, Allowlist and Settings pages are exported to a .json file named after the exported config id. You can freely rename the file. The file will appear in your browser like a downloaded file, so what exactly happens will depend on your browser's settings for downloads.

  When you import a config, the settings from the file are merged with the current config settings, it doesn't replace them. If you want to replace the config, you should remove the old settings, or create a new config, and then import from the file.

  Any items that you normally add by clicking an "Add" button or domains in the allowlist/denylist won't be imported in the exact same order they were exported, because NextDNS doesn't accept a group of items to be added in one go, so every item need to be added one by one, this means that for every item, a new connection need to be made, and each connection finishes in it's own time, which makes the first connection not necessarily be the first to finish.

  It can happen that an item or two aren't imported because of a network or timing issue. In that case, you can manually add the missing items or import again. You can reimport any number of times, no items are duplicated by doing this.