DigitalOcean DNS on new websites

1. DigitalOcean DNS appeared on about 2,500 new sites in the last 30 days.^[1]
2. Half of new DigitalOcean DNS sites also use nginx.

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

#	Movement	Tool	Share of all sites	Share of category	Bar
1	–	Cloudflare DNS	30.3%	31.8%
2	▼1	Hostinger DNS	9.6%	10.0%
3	▲1	GoDaddy DNS	8.5%	8.9%
4	–	Namecheap DNS	7.1%	7.4%
5	▼1	Vercel DNS	3.6%	3.8%
…
40	▼10	DigitalOcean 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. The most common alternatives to DigitalOcean DNS on new websites are Cloudflare DNS and GoDaddy DNS. Among September launches it ranked #42 in DNS Provider, down from #32 in August. All 14554 in DNS Provider

Tool	Sites with both	vs all new sites	Bar
nginx	4,438	5.0x

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

3,486 of the 9,352 sites using DigitalOcean DNS are product launches we list individually. The other 5,866 are new business and personal sites: they count towards the figures above but are not listed here. A watch sends them to you.

Site	Found	Also detected
Every Brain in the Game — Don’t just guess. Know. everybraininthegame.com · Health	Oct 19
CodeSkill codeskill.org · Education	Oct 19
ShopCam | Media management for collision repairers shopcam.ca · Canada	Oct 19
Quiz International – Daily Trivia Battles quizinternational.xyz · Games	Oct 19
Bilingual US–Mexico travel consent letters | One price, no subscription docuborder.com	Oct 19
Blessings Kept — Notice the good. Keep it close. keptblessings.com · Health	Oct 19
Respita Buddy respita.org · Social	Oct 19
Respita Buddy respita.tech · Social	Oct 19
Juno — sales tracker for content creators junotracker.com	Oct 19
Sprout’s Stories — Little stories. Growing hearts. sproutsstories.com	Oct 19
VoltMarina — Free Marina Management Software voltmarina.com · Productivity	Oct 19
Bump Diary: the pregnancy diary made for both of you thebumpdiary.com	Oct 19

Showing the most recent 12 of 3,486.

Watches, exports and the API give you all 9,352 sites using DigitalOcean DNS, from £15 a month.

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. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.
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.