DNS providers used by 3,631,111 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
1,758,553
48.4%
Cloudflare
753,818
20.8%
GoDaddy
253,484
7.0%
IONOS / 1&1
131,658
3.6%
AWS Route53
90,120
2.5%
OVH
67,916
1.9%
Wix
53,517
1.5%
All-Inkl / KAS
51,158
1.4%
Alibaba (HiChina)
40,262
1.1%
Parked / Above.com
36,292
1.0%
SiteGround
36,152
1.0%
Google Cloud DNS
35,733
1.0%
Namecheap
33,927
0.9%
NS1
29,042
0.8%
Gandi
20,360
0.6%
Azure DNS
18,288
0.5%
Register.it
17,989
0.5%
One.com
17,564
0.5%
TransIP
17,186
0.5%
Bluehost
13,409
0.4%
DreamHost
13,050
0.4%
United Domains
12,791
0.4%
WordPress.com (Automattic)
12,391
0.3%
DNSPod (Tencent)
12,304
0.3%
Namecheap Hosting
11,805
0.3%
O2Switch
10,321
0.3%
Schlund / IONOS
8,030
0.2%
DigitalOcean
7,419
0.2%
DNS Made Easy
6,967
0.2%
Hetzner
6,702
0.2%
Akamai
6,356
0.2%
Microsoft Online (Office 365)
6,314
0.2%
INWX
6,149
0.2%
HostGator
6,011
0.2%
ClouDNS
5,471
0.2%
Hover
5,169
0.1%
LCN / LiveDNS
4,735
0.1%
Dinahosting
4,071
0.1%
Vercel
3,871
0.1%
Tencent DNSPod
2,075
0.1%
DNSimple
1,124
0.0%
Constellix
970
0.0%
Google Domains
326
0.0%
Squarespace
259
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.