WordPress.com DNS on new websites

1. About 1 in 160 websites that went live in the last 30 days use WordPress.com DNS (0.6%).^[1]
2. Almost all new WordPress.com DNS sites also use nginx.
3. It is unusually common on .blog domains: 10% of the domains running it, against 0.2% of domains across new sites.

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use WordPress.com 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%	10.1%
3	▲1	GoDaddy DNS	8.5%	8.9%
4	–	Namecheap DNS	7.1%	7.4%
5	▼1	Vercel DNS	3.6%	3.8%
…
17	▼1	WordPress.com DNS	0.5%	0.6%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any DNS Provider tool. All 14575 in DNS Provider

Tool	Sites with both	vs all new sites	Bar
WP Cloud Email	9,237	174x
Bilmur (WordPress.com RUM)	29,170	166x
WordPress.com	29,333	164x
Gravatar	30,176	127x
Jetpack	31,052	118x

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

400 of the 33,006 sites using WordPress.com DNS are product launches we list individually. The other 32,606 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
OrigamiDraw | Crease Patterns with Ease origamidraw.com	Oct 19
SameLife | World Time, Salary, Cost of Living & Everyday Converters same-life.com · China	Oct 18
CallBunker callbunker.com	Oct 18
JScout – A modern home for grassroots referees and footballers video portfolios, allowing them to track and analyse their development and progress. j-scout.com	Oct 17
StycFly — Photo et vidéo par drone en Bretagne stycfly.fr · France	Oct 15
990English | AI-Powered TOEIC Practice 990english.com · Education	Oct 14
Pack Support — everything it takes to run a pet care business packsupport.app · Productivity	Oct 10
zimlo zimlo.io · AI · United States	Oct 9
BusRelay – Connecting Transportation Departments and Families getbusrelay.com	Oct 9
Herramientas Freelance – Guías y herramientas para trabajar por tu cuenta herramientasfreelance.blog · Productivity	Oct 9
Typewriting Monkeys | Practical AI & Patch Maps typewritingmonkeys.com	Oct 9
wedoingood – Plugins for WooCommerce, built for our own store wedoingood.com · E-commerce · Ukraine	Oct 9

Showing the most recent 12 of 400.

Watches, exports and the API give you all 33,006 sites using WordPress.com 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.