Yes. DNN Platform is a free, open-source CMS under the MIT License.

What is the tech stack for DNN?

DNN runs on ASP.NET (.NET Framework 4.8+) with Microsoft SQL Server (2017+ or Azure SQL).

DNN Platform is community-led and a member project of the .NET Foundation.

What’s the difference between DNN and Evoq?

DNN Platform is the open-source core that's been wildly popular and adopted for over 20 years. Evoq is a commercial offering maintained by DNN Software (IgniteTech) that builds on DNN.

DNN Blogs

Written for the Community, by the Community

Author: Tycho de Waard (SU)

Hey Joe!

Last year DNN-Connect was awesome! This year was different. In a good way :-)

Tycho de Waard (SU)
2026-05-11

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Page header injections improvement

Last year I had quite a bit of work trying to get websites found and understood by AI (GEO / AEO). A lot of the work is just 'best practices' like meta tags, og-tags, rich snippets etc. But for AI more is needed. Not just more meta tags but also script tags like JSON-LD.

Tycho de Waard (SU)
2026-05-11

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Deep Dive DNN AI

There is this DNN AIchat extension that I wanted to try. So, how did I go?

Tycho de Waard (SU)
2026-01-12

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Looking back at DNN Connect 2025

It might have been the most exciting Connect ever!

Tycho de Waard (SU)
2025-05-25

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New: DNN Tokens

One of the most important aspects of content management: reliability. Your content needs to be 100% correct. But especially for larger or more complex websites, that can be a challenge. We give you: DNN Tokens

Tycho de Waard (SU)
2025-02-14

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Christmas gift to the DNN community

At Tjep's digital agency, we're constantly contributing to the DNN community. This Christmas, we're going all out! We're kicking off a brand-new module: DNN Tokens.

Tycho de Waard (SU)
2024-12-19

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Testing DNN 10

At DNN-Connect we had several sessions about DNN 10 (whoop, whoop!). One of the things I learned: you can actually testdrive DNN 10 already, even though it is not a release yet.

Tycho de Waard (SU)
2024-05-28

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Sitecore: the premium CMS?

When I started my company (Tjep's digital agency) in 2017, I did this with 100% DNN in mind. But in reality I get caught up in projects with other CMSses as well. Actually, I did several consultancy projects where I could analyze the pros and cons of Drupal, Kentico, Liferay, Umbraco and many more. The one blind spot was Sitecore. That changed a few months ago.

Tycho de Waard (SU)
2021-11-16

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How to detect and solve SEO issues

In the last versions of DNN platform we have some issues regarding Search Engine Optimization. One of the most important ones has been resolved in 9.9.0. But what if you can not upgrade or you have created some pages but you have no idea which they were and if they are in the sitemap or not?

What I did is take a look at the database as that is where the truth lies. And I have some great tips for you!

Tycho de Waard (SU)
2021-03-02

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G2: DNN is high performer

The CMS 2020 report of G2 is out! And DNN Platform is ranking as a high performer!

Last couple of months I have been bugging y'all to vote for DNN on the G2 website. I explained G2 how the versions are different and they went along with that. And now...it paid off!

Tycho de Waard (SU)
2020-06-24

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