steering.nextdns.io Eating Up My Free NextDNS Quota – What Is It and How to Reduce It?

Hi Support Team,

I've been using NextDNS on my Windows PC, and I recently noticed that a large number of DNS queries are being made to steering.nextdns.io. After checking, I found that these requests do count towards the free monthly quota of 300,000 queries, and they're consuming it quite fast.

From what I understand, this domain is part of NextDNS's own infrastructure—so I'm wondering:

What's the purpose of these steering.nextdns.io queries?

Why are there so many of them?

Is there a way to reduce or stop them?

Shouldn’t queries to internal NextDNS domains be excluded from the quota?

Would really appreciate it if someone could shed some light on this.

Thanks !