Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content, without installing any client-side software. We will use Pi-hole as our DNS server in our local network in order to block ads on all devices. It is important for Pi-hole to be run on a device or server that is constantly running, as we will configure our router to point to this device for any DNS query. So without it running we will not be able to access any webpage.

Duck DNS is a free dynamic DNS hosted on AWS, that we can use to get a free domain name. There a lot of free Dynamic DNS services, you can find a good comprehensive of them here as well as No-IP that we already have a guide, but Duck DNS is dead simple and has instructions for how to configure on every possible platform or system. The only negative for this service is the limited subdomains that we can choose from.

No-IP is a Free Dynamic DNS and Managed DNS Provider, that we can use to get a free domain name. There a lot of free Dynamic DNS services, you can find a good comprehensive of them here that we can choose from, but this was the first service that I personally tried. The good with this service is that we have a big selection of free domain names that we can choose, so we can easily find a domain that is available for the hostname we want to have.