Feature Request – Please Add Bulk Import/Export for the Allowlist

Hi NextDNS team!

First off, thank you for building such a rock-solid service. After two years on NextDNS I can’t imagine going back to a plain resolver.

Why we need bulk tools for the allowlist

• Large exception sets are common. Anyone who enables several of the excellent privacy blocklists quickly runs into false-positives (banking portals, smart-home back-ends, corporate VPN hosts, etc.). My personal allowlist is already well past 600 domains and still growing.

• One-by-one entry is painful. Entering (or migrating) hundreds of domains through the dashboard feels like data entry circa 1995.

• Config portability & backup. Being able to export an allowlist lets us copy it to another profile, share it with family, or keep an offline backup in case we experiment and need to roll back.

• Consistency with the denylist. Block-lists can already be managed in bulk via custom lists; parity for the allowlist would make the UI more intuitive.

Existing (unofficial) work-arounds aren’t enough

• Community CLI tools such as nextdnsctl can bulk-add domains through the API, but many users aren’t comfortable running Python scripts or tinkering with tokens. GitHub

• Multiple posts in this very forum have been requesting the feature for years, showing clear demand. NextDNS Hilfe

While these options prove it’s technically possible, an official solution would be safer (no API-token exposure), easier for non-technical users, and less likely to break when the UI/API evolves.

Suggested implementation (happy with any of these!)

1. Paste box / multiline text field – accept one domain per line, just like the denylist import.

2. File upload – allow .txt or .csv containing domains.

3. URL import – fetch a raw list on every save (perfect for syncing from GitHub).

4. Export button – dump the current allowlist as plain text so it can be re-imported elsewhere.

5. API parity – extend the public API so third-party tools don’t rely on private endpoints.

Even a basic paste-box would already save hours of clicking.

Ready to beta-test

If this needs extra eyes before a public roll-out I’ll happily test on my profiles and report back. Thanks for considering, and keep up the stellar work!

Michael