DNS providers used by 3,124,369 domains

Who answers DNS queries for each indexed domain. The breakdown comes from the first authoritative NS we observed — split-zone setups across two providers are rare and fall into other.

Self-hosted / unclassified

1,456,347

46.6%

Cloudflare

690,828

22.1%

GoDaddy

231,157

7.4%

IONOS / 1&1

89,410

2.9%

AWS Route53

86,716

2.8%

OVH

62,830

2.0%

Wix

44,719

1.4%

Alibaba (HiChina)

37,033

1.2%

All-Inkl / KAS

35,412

1.1%

Namecheap

34,294

1.1%

Google Cloud DNS

33,988

1.1%

Parked / Above.com

31,932

1.0%

SiteGround

30,844

1.0%

NS1

27,742

0.9%

Gandi

19,241

0.6%

Azure DNS

17,718

0.6%

One.com

14,506

0.5%

TransIP

14,500

0.5%

Bluehost

12,948

0.4%

DreamHost

12,529

0.4%

12,180

0.4%

WordPress.com (Automattic)

11,573

0.4%

Namecheap Hosting

11,136

0.4%

DNSPod (Tencent)

10,671

0.3%

United Domains

10,008

0.3%

O2Switch

9,713

0.3%

DigitalOcean

7,071

0.2%

DNS Made Easy

6,867

0.2%

Akamai

6,200

0.2%

Schlund / IONOS

5,928

0.2%

Microsoft Online (Office 365)

5,779

0.2%

HostGator

5,720

0.2%

Hetzner

5,454

0.2%

Hover

5,008

0.2%

ClouDNS

4,896

0.2%

INWX

4,867

0.2%

LCN / LiveDNS

4,600

0.1%

Dinahosting

4,002

0.1%

Vercel

3,481

0.1%

Tencent DNSPod

1,986

0.1%

DNSimple

1,086

0.0%

Constellix

945

0.0%

Google Domains

317

0.0%

Squarespace

185

0.0%

CDN77

0.0%

WP Engine

0.0%

Method

We classify the first NS host with a pattern table: *.ns.cloudflare.com → Cloudflare, ns-*.awsdns-*.org → AWS Route53, and so on. Self-hosted nameservers and unrecognised providers land in the trailing bucket.