Linode/Akamai DNS on new websites

1. Linode/Akamai DNS appeared on about 320 new sites in the last 30 days.^[1]
2. Half of new Linode/Akamai DNS sites also use nginx.
3. It is unusually common among game launches: 14%, against 6.7% across new sites.

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use Linode/Akamai 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	9.5%	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%
…
162	▼20	Linode/Akamai DNS	<0.1%	<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 #178 in DNS Provider, down from #158 in August. All 14613 in DNS Provider

Tool	Sites with both	vs all new sites	Bar
nginx	522	5.3x
Apache	249	5.2x

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

270 of the 1,020 sites using Linode/Akamai DNS are product launches we list individually. The other 750 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
Colony Tycoon — Today, a colony. Tomorrow, a nation. colonytycoon.com · Games	Oct 20
Deathplanswitch deathplanswitch.com	Oct 20
TempoSuite temposuite.ca · Education · Canada	Oct 19
Autobats Car Battery Center — Find the right battery for your car autobats.com · Philippines	Oct 19
Magnetic Cue Chalk Holders, Made to Fit Your Chalk · Chalk Master Gear chalkmastergear.com · United States	Oct 19
Sardonic Wrath: one angel versus all of Hell sardonicwrath.com · Games	Oct 19
Inbox | صندوق واتساب واحد لفريقك كامل inbox-s.com	Oct 19
ContestHub™ · Explore Your Talents contesthub.in · India	Oct 19
ScriptMatter — WritersRoom private alpha scriptmatter.com · Content	Oct 18
IP fija en México sin cambiar de proveedor | portuno portuno.app · Developer Tools	Oct 18
Cyridium — Headless Multi-Tenant CMS xavius.co.uk · United Kingdom	Oct 18
Blendline blendline.app · Content	Oct 17

Showing the most recent 12 of 270.

Watches, exports and the API give you all 1,020 sites using Linode/Akamai 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.