| General public resolvers | Users who want broad public-resolver baselines | Resolver role, Anycast entry behavior, and baseline network ownership | They are often miswritten as just faster DNS without context | Low | Best used as the public-DNS baseline |
| Security-oriented public resolvers | Users who care more about filtering, threat blocking, or policy | Security context, service goals, and enterprise or security branding | It is easy to mix them into generic public DNS | Medium | Best used as the security-DNS control group |
| Localized or regional public resolvers | Users who care more about Chinese-internet or regional context | Domestic deployment, usage context, and regional habits | They are easy to compare incorrectly against global edge networks | Low-medium | Best used as the regional-context sample |