Google Public DNS (Domain Name System), the well-known IP address 8.8.8.8, turned eight years, eight months, eight days and eight hours old on Sunday, 12th August 2018, at 00:30 UTC. Google Public DNS is a free Domain Name System (DNS) service offered to Internet users world-wide by Google, it is the largest public DNS service in the world, is also resistant against DNS Cache Poisoning attacks and DoS attacks. Thank you Google for you fantastic free service. Google Public DNS is not related to Google Cloud DNS, which is a DNS hosting service.