Anycast DNS on new websites

OVHcloud : Anycast DNS hosting service

Sites using Anycast DNS
10,933
since Apr 2026
Last 30 days
0.4%
of new sites, to Oct 18
+0.3 pts on the 30 days before
Last 7 days
0.4%
of new sites, 7-day average
+0.2 pts on the week before
Rank in DNS Provider
#36
of 14575 tools, all time
In our data since Apr 2026
Last seen Oct 19, 2026
Website docs.ovhcloud.com

What we found

  1. About 1 in 280 websites that went live in the last 30 days use Anycast DNS (0.4%).[1]
  2. Nine in ten new Anycast DNS sites also use OVH Email.
  3. It is unusually common on .fr domains: 40% of the domains running it, against 1.8% of domains across new sites.

Share of new sites using Anycast DNS

0.0% 0.2% 0.4% 0.6% 0.8% 10 Sep Oct

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use Anycast DNS, since 10 September.

Who uses Anycast DNS

Kind of site 2,739 sites with a known type
TypeSitesShareBar
Games 417 15.2%
Health 384 14.0%
Productivity 263 9.6%
Developer Tools 237 8.7%
Finance 228 8.3%
Social 191 7.0%
Content 178 6.5%
Marketing 172 6.3%
E-commerce 171 6.2%
Education 162 5.9%
AI 114 4.2%
Design 102 3.7%
Country[2] 1,898 sites with a known country
CountrySitesShareBar
France 1,793 94.5%
Spain 18 1.0%
Canada 17 0.9%
Belgium 7 0.4%
UK 7 0.4%
Tunisia 7 0.4%
Poland 6 0.3%
Switzerland 5 0.3%
Italy 5 0.3%
Morocco 5 0.3%
Congo - Kinshasa 3 0.2%
Germany 3 0.2%
Domain ending 10,915 sites
EndingSitesShareBar
.fr 4,945 45.3%
.com 3,979 36.5%
.app 300 2.8%
.org 176 1.6%
.io 153 1.4%
.net 132 1.2%
.cloud 117 1.1%
.tech 103 0.9%
.pl 100 0.9%
.pro 80 0.7%
.dev 79 0.7%
.online 78 0.7%
Green hosting[3] 135 checked sites since Apr 2026
SitesGreenBar
Anycast DNS 59%
All new sites 47%

DNS Provider on new sites

# Movement Tool Share of all sites Share of category Bar
1 – Cloudflare DNS 30.3% 31.8%
2 ▼1 Hostinger DNS 9.6% 10.1%
3 ▲1 GoDaddy DNS 8.5% 8.9%
4 – Namecheap DNS 7.1% 7.4%
5 ▼1 Vercel DNS 3.6% 3.8%
…
36 ▲21 Anycast DNS 0.2% 0.2%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any DNS Provider tool. Among September launches it ranked #31 in DNS Provider, up from #52 in August. All 14575 in DNS Provider

Often used with Anycast DNS

Tool Sites with both vs all new sites Bar
OVH Email 10,139 66x
Apache 4,831 9.4x

Tools that turn up far more often on Anycast DNS sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.

Recently launched products built on Anycast DNS

Notes

  1. These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
  2. Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. We count a country only where it is stated plainly enough to be sure: a governing-law clause or company registration number on a legal page, a phone country code, or a country domain ending. Sites that publish none are not counted at all.
  3. Green hosting is the share whose web host The Green Web Foundation lists as running on green energy, among sites checked since 1 April 2026, against the same share for every new site we checked over that time. Data from The Green Web Foundation.

How this page is made

FirstSited looks at each new website near the day it goes live and records what it was built with. We do not go back later, so these figures describe what sites launch with, not what they run today. A site counts towards Anycast DNS when we detect Anycast DNS on it at that look.

Every share on this page is a proportion of the new sites we were tracking at the time. Sites we found across the wider web count towards the figures, but only product launches are listed by name. How we detect technologies · How we find new sites

Something not look right? If a technology shown here is wrong or out of date, email [email protected] and we'll review it.