DNS Provider Tools

The dns provider tools we detect on new sites, ranked by how many use each. Part of Infrastructure.

Tools tracked
14,575
in Infrastructure
Sites
5,722,483
using at least one dns provider tool
Above 1%
15
tools on more than 1% of them

What we found

  1. Cloudflare DNS leads, on 32% of the sites using a dns provider tool, 3.2 times as many sites as Hostinger DNS.
  2. Only 15 of the 14,575 dns provider tools we track run on more than 1% of these sites.
  3. Among sites launched in September, OVH DNS rose to #13 from #19 in August.

The leading dns provider tools

# Movement Tool Country Share Bar Sites 90 days
1 – Cloudflare DNS Cloudflare authoritative nameservers. 32% 1,819,564
2 ▼1 Hostinger DNS Hostinger managed DNS hosting. 10% 575,331
3 ▲1 GoDaddy DNS Nameservers for domains registered with GoDaddy, the largest consumer domain registrar. 8.9% 508,602
4 – Namecheap DNS Namecheap managed DNS hosting. 7.4% 425,534
5 ▼1 Vercel DNS Managed DNS used by domains pointed at Vercel-hosted projects. 3.8% 216,997
6 ▲3 Wix DNS Managed DNS that Wix provides for domains registered with or connected to Wix sites. 3.4% 193,187
7 – Google Domains DNS Nameservers from the discontinued Google Domains registrar (transferred to Squarespace in 2023). 3.1% 177,113
8 ▼3 Squarespace DNS Managed DNS that Squarespace provides for domains registered with or connected to Squarespace. 2.4% 139,809
9 ▲2 Name.com US-based domain registrar. 2.4% 135,866
10 ▼1 NS1 Managed authoritative DNS provider with traffic-steering and routing features (acquired by IBM in 2024). 2.4% 135,107
11 – Porkbun DNS Nameservers for domains registered with the Porkbun registrar. 2.0% 113,064
12 – IONOS DNS Managed DNS from IONOS, the European web hosting and domain provider owned by United Internet. 1.7% 97,286
13 ▼1 Spaceship DNS Nameservers for domains registered with the Spaceship registrar (Namecheap's sister brand). 1.3% 72,990
14 ▲6 OVH DNS Nameservers operated by OVHcloud, the European hosting and infrastructure provider. 1.2% 69,571
15 ▼1 AWS Route 53 Amazon Web Services authoritative and recursive DNS hosting product. 1.0% 57,763

Share is of the 5,722,483 sites using a dns provider tool; a site can use more than one. Arrows compare each tool's rank among sites launched in September with August. The line is its share of new sites over 90 days. Showing the top 15 of 14,575.

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Recently launched products using dns provider tools

Product Launched
Stegano 19 Oct 2026
Dailys 19 Oct 2026
Vibetown 19 Oct 2026
Provenmetal 19 Oct 2026
PassimPay 19 Oct 2026
Claude 19 Oct 2026

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