IIJ DNS on new websites 
Internet Initiative Japan: DNS hosting service for Japanese ISPs and businesses.
- Sites using IIJ DNS
- 2,848
- since Apr 2026
- Last 30 days
- 0.1%
-
of new sites, to Oct 19
no change on the 30 days before - Last 7 days
- 0.1%
- of new sites, 7-day average
no change on the week before
| First seen | Apr 24, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Last seen | Oct 20, 2026 |
What we found
- IIJ DNS appeared on about 980 new sites in the last 30 days.[1]
- Nine in ten new IIJ DNS sites also use nginx.
- It is unusually common among productivity launches: 40%, against 6% across new sites.
Share of new sites using IIJ DNS
The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use IIJ DNS, since 10 September.
Who uses IIJ DNS
| Type | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Productivity | 133 | 40.2% | |
| Education | 35 | 10.6% | |
| Social | 28 | 8.5% | |
| Health | 22 | 6.7% | |
| E-commerce | 21 | 6.3% | |
| Finance | 17 | 5.1% | |
| Design | 15 | 4.5% | |
| AI | 14 | 4.2% | |
| Content | 12 | 3.6% | |
| Games | 12 | 3.6% | |
| Developer Tools | 10 | 3.0% | |
| Directory | 4 | 1.2% |
| Country | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan |
2,520 | 100.0% |
| Ending | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 2,324 | 81.7% | |
| .net | 301 | 10.6% | |
| .org | 91 | 3.2% | |
| .site | 43 | 1.5% | |
| .jp | 20 | 0.7% | |
| .me | 13 | 0.5% | |
| .xyz | 10 | 0.4% | |
| .online | 9 | 0.3% | |
| .app | 6 | 0.2% | |
| .tech | 5 | 0.2% | |
| .art | 4 | 0.1% | |
| .blog | 4 | 0.1% |
DNS Provider on new sites
| # | Movement | Tool | Share of category | Bar | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – |
Cloudflare DNS
|
31.7% | ||
| 2 | ▼1 |
Hostinger DNS
|
10.0% | ||
| 3 | ▲1 |
GoDaddy DNS
|
8.9% | ||
| 4 | – |
Namecheap DNS
|
7.4% | ||
| 5 | ▼1 |
Vercel DNS
|
3.8% | ||
| … | |||||
| 79 | ▲3 | IIJ DNS | <0.1% | ||
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 #77 in DNS Provider, up from #80 in August. All 14603 in DNS Provider
Often used with IIJ DNS
| Tool | Sites with both | vs all new sites |
|---|---|---|
Google Hosted Libraries
|
369 | 14x |
nginx
|
2,615 | 9.6x |
Google Maps
|
392 | 3.3x |
WordPress
|
1,131 | 3.2x |
PHP
|
1,302 | 2.8x |
Tools that turn up far more often on IIJ DNS sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.
Recently launched products built on IIJ DNS
163 of the 2,848 sites using IIJ DNS are product launches we list individually. The other 2,685 are new business and personal sites: they count towards the figures above but are not listed here. A watch sends them to you.
Showing the most recent 12 of 163.
Watches, exports and the API give you all 2,848 sites using IIJ DNS, from £15 a month.
Notes
- These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
- 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.
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 IIJ DNS when we detect IIJ 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