DNS providers used by 4,042,624 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
2,027,753
50.2%
Cloudflare
848,824
21.0%
GoDaddy
264,704
6.5%
IONOS / 1&1
133,660
3.3%
AWS Route53
92,596
2.3%
OVH
70,592
1.7%
Wix
55,442
1.4%
All-Inkl / KAS
52,444
1.3%
Alibaba (HiChina)
44,380
1.1%
Parked / Above.com
40,710
1.0%
SiteGround
37,726
0.9%
Google Cloud DNS
37,176
0.9%
Namecheap
36,513
0.9%
NS1
30,368
0.8%
Gandi
20,857
0.5%
Azure DNS
18,818
0.5%
Register.it
18,425
0.5%
One.com
18,195
0.5%
TransIP
17,943
0.4%
Bluehost
13,932
0.3%
DreamHost
13,527
0.3%
DNSPod (Tencent)
13,334
0.3%
United Domains
13,009
0.3%
Namecheap Hosting
12,863
0.3%
WordPress.com (Automattic)
12,855
0.3%
O2Switch
10,978
0.3%
Schlund / IONOS
8,146
0.2%
DigitalOcean
7,568
0.2%
DNS Made Easy
7,080
0.2%
Hetzner
6,969
0.2%
Microsoft Online (Office 365)
6,534
0.2%
Akamai
6,505
0.2%
INWX
6,322
0.2%
HostGator
6,302
0.2%
ClouDNS
5,663
0.1%
Hover
5,338
0.1%
LCN / LiveDNS
4,907
0.1%
Vercel
4,452
0.1%
Dinahosting
4,183
0.1%
Tencent DNSPod
2,144
0.1%
DNSimple
1,128
0.0%
Constellix
989
0.0%
Squarespace
434
0.0%
Google Domains
333
0.0%
123-reg
1
0.0%
CDN77
1
0.0%
WP Engine
1
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.