OtherDNS on new websites 
South African DNS/nameserver provider (Afrihost-affiliated)
- Sites using OtherDNS
- 820
- since Apr 2026
- Last 30 days
- 0.0%
-
of new sites, to Oct 19
no change on the 30 days before - Last 7 days
- 0.0%
- of new sites, 7-day average
no change on the week before
| In our data since | Apr 2026 |
|---|---|
| Last seen | Oct 20, 2026 |
What we found
- OtherDNS appeared on about 240 new sites in the last 30 days.[1]
- Nine in ten new OtherDNS sites also use Afrihost.
- It is unusually common on .online domains: 11% of the domains running it, against 3.6% of domains across new sites.
Share of new sites using OtherDNS
The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use OtherDNS, since 10 September.
Who uses OtherDNS
| Type | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 48 | 16.6% | |
| E-commerce | 34 | 11.8% | |
| Education | 31 | 10.7% | |
| Productivity | 31 | 10.7% | |
| Developer Tools | 24 | 8.3% | |
| Finance | 24 | 8.3% | |
| Content | 19 | 6.6% | |
| Social | 19 | 6.6% | |
| Games | 17 | 5.9% | |
| Marketing | 12 | 4.2% | |
| Hiring & HR | 11 | 3.8% | |
| Design | 9 | 3.1% |
| Country | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa |
486 | 99.2% | |
 UK |
2 | 0.4% | |
 Australia |
1 | 0.2% | |
 New Zealand |
1 | 0.2% |
| Ending | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 496 | 60.5% | |
| .online | 90 | 11.0% | |
| .org | 71 | 8.7% | |
| .tech | 44 | 5.4% | |
| .store | 22 | 2.7% | |
| .za | 18 | 2.2% | |
| .io | 14 | 1.7% | |
| .site | 14 | 1.7% | |
| .co | 11 | 1.3% | |
| .uk | 10 | 1.2% | |
| .net | 7 | 0.9% | |
| .au | 6 | 0.7% |
DNS Provider on new sites
| # | Movement | Tool | Share of category | Bar | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – |
Cloudflare DNS
|
31.8% | ||
| 2 | ▼1 |
Hostinger DNS
|
10.0% | ||
| 3 | ▲1 |
GoDaddy DNS
|
8.9% | ||
| 4 | – |
Namecheap DNS
|
7.4% | ||
| 5 | ▼1 |
Vercel DNS
|
3.8% | ||
| … | |||||
| 189 | ▼27 | OtherDNS | <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 #200 in DNS Provider, down from #173 in August. All 14618 in DNS Provider
Often used with OtherDNS
| Tool | Sites with both | vs all new sites |
|---|---|---|
| Afrihost | 806 | 7324x |
| Afrihost | 726 | 6746x |
LiteSpeed Web Server
|
444 | 8.2x |
Tools that turn up far more often on OtherDNS sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.
Recently launched products built on OtherDNS
160 of the 820 sites using OtherDNS are product launches we list individually. The other 660 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 160.
Watches, exports and the API give you all 820 sites using OtherDNS, 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 OtherDNS when we detect OtherDNS 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