This post provides current marketshare statistics for managed DNS services amongst top Alexa websites and US Fortune 500 companies. The methodology used to collect this data is explained in a prior post.
Alexa Top 1,000 DNS Marketshare – 5 Jun 2014
Historical Alexa 1,000 DNS Marketshare – 8 Apr 14 to 5 Jun 2014
Alexa Top 1,000 DNS Marketshare – 5 Jun 2014
Provider | Rank | Websites (out of 1000) | Marketshare | Marketshare Change |
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Dyn | 1 | 106 | 10.6% | +3 |
AWS Route 53 | 2 | 68 | 6.8% | +5 |
UltraDNS | 3 | 66 | 6.6% | +1 |
Akamai | 4 | 66 | 6.6% | +6 |
CloudFlare | 5 | 52 | 5.2% | +5 |
DNS Made Easy | 6 | 28 | 2.8% | 0 |
DNSPod | 7 | 24 | 2.4% | +3 |
Verisign DNS | 8 | 18 | 1.8% | 0 |
GoDaddy DNS | 9 | 12 | 1.2% | -1 |
Rackspace Cloud DNS | 10 | 8 | 0.8% | 0 |
Enom DNS | 11 | 5 | 0.5% | 0 |
Internap | 12 | 4 | 0.4% | 0 |
Nettica | 13 | 3 | 0.3% | 0 |
Namecheap | 14 | 3 | 0.3% | 0 |
ClouDNS | 15 | 3 | 0.3% | 0 |
Softlayer DNS | 16 | 3 | 0.3% | 0 |
easyDNS | 17 | 3 | 0.3% | 0 |
Savvis | 18 | 2 | 0.2% | 0 |
DNS Park | 19 | 2 | 0.2% | +1 |
EuroDNS | 20 | 1 | 0.1% | 0 |
CDNetworks DNS | 21 | 1 | 0.1% | 0 |
DTDNS | 22 | 1 | 0.1% | 0 |
Alexa Top 1,000 DNS Switchers – 5 Jun 2014
Hostname | Rank | New DNS Provider | Previous DNS Provider |
---|---|---|---|
soundcloud.com | 166 | AWS Route 53 | Dyn |
shutterstock.com | 193 | Dyn | UltraDNS |
warriorforum.com | 240 | AWS Route 53 | Softlayer DNS |
wetransfer.com | 703 | AWS Route 53 | Dyn |
nfl.com | 800 | Akamai | UltraDNS |
linkwithin.com | 999 | Softlayer DNS | GoDaddy DNS |
Alexa Top 10,000 DNS Marketshare – 5 Jun 2014
Historical Alexa 10,000 DNS Marketshare – 8 Apr 14 to 5 Jun 2014
Alexa Top 10,000 DNS Marketshare – 5 Jun 2014
Provider | Rank | Websites (out of 10000) | Marketshare | Marketshare Change |
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CloudFlare | 1 | 748 | 7.48% | +40 |
AWS Route 53 | 2 | 701 | 7.01% | +30 |
Dyn | 3 | 496 | 4.96% | +12 |
UltraDNS | 4 | 369 | 3.69% | +4 |
GoDaddy DNS | 5 | 335 | 3.35% | +9 |
Akamai | 6 | 331 | 3.31% | +25 |
DNS Made Easy | 7 | 281 | 2.81% | +9 |
DNSPod | 8 | 276 | 2.76% | -1 |
Rackspace Cloud DNS | 9 | 157 | 1.57% | +1 |
Verisign DNS | 10 | 125 | 1.25% | -1 |
Enom DNS | 11 | 69 | 0.69% | -3 |
Softlayer DNS | 12 | 68 | 0.68% | 0 |
easyDNS | 13 | 59 | 0.59% | -3 |
Namecheap | 14 | 50 | 0.5% | +1 |
ClouDNS | 15 | 32 | 0.32% | -2 |
Savvis | 16 | 29 | 0.29% | -1 |
Nettica | 17 | 26 | 0.26% | -1 |
Internap | 18 | 23 | 0.23% | 0 |
DNS Park | 19 | 19 | 0.19% | +5 |
ZoneEdit | 20 | 15 | 0.15% | -2 |
No-IP | 21 | 11 | 0.11% | 0 |
CDNetworks DNS | 22 | 10 | 0.1% | 0 |
EuroDNS | 23 | 10 | 0.1% | +2 |
Zerigo DNS | 24 | 8 | 0.08% | -1 |
Worldwide DNS | 25 | 3 | 0.03% | 0 |
DTDNS | 26 | 1 | 0.01% | 0 |
Alexa Top 10,000 DNS Switchers – 5 Jun 2014
Hostname | Rank | New DNS Provider | Previous DNS Provider |
---|---|---|---|
soundcloud.com | 166 | AWS Route 53 | Dyn |
shutterstock.com | 193 | Dyn | UltraDNS |
warriorforum.com | 240 | AWS Route 53 | Softlayer DNS |
wetransfer.com | 703 | AWS Route 53 | Dyn |
nfl.com | 800 | Akamai | UltraDNS |
linkwithin.com | 999 | Softlayer DNS | GoDaddy DNS |
statscrop.com | 1195 | CloudFlare | GoDaddy DNS |
name.com | 1323 | Akamai | Verisign DNS |
searchenginejournal.com | 1618 | DNS Made Easy | Dyn |
authorize.net | 1684 | Verisign DNS | UltraDNS |
flirt4free.com | 1764 | UltraDNS | Verisign DNS |
naturalnews.com | 1945 | Softlayer DNS | GoDaddy DNS |
speedbit.com | 2098 | AWS Route 53 | Akamai |
onefloorserve.com | 2134 | AWS Route 53 | GoDaddy DNS |
bigstockphoto.com | 2204 | Dyn | UltraDNS |
ryushare.com | 2262 | CloudFlare | easyDNS |
whatsapp.com | 2316 | Dyn | Softlayer DNS |
codecademy.com | 2559 | AWS Route 53 | DNS Made Easy |
couchtuner.eu | 2561 | GoDaddy DNS | CloudFlare |
tasnimnews.com | 2739 | ClouDNS | DNS Made Easy |
gilt.com | 2987 | CloudFlare | UltraDNS |
zurb.com | 3519 | CloudFlare | Rackspace Cloud DNS |
wanelo.com | 3749 | DNS Made Easy | Dyn |
filefactory.com | 3838 | Dyn | DNS Made Easy |
iflscience.com | 3880 | DNS Made Easy | GoDaddy DNS |
sammydress.com | 4799 | Akamai | DNSPod |
watchfreemovies.ch | 5163 | CloudFlare | ClouDNS |
minnano-av.com | 5316 | GoDaddy DNS | AWS Route 53 |
eweb4.com | 5462 | GoDaddy DNS | ZoneEdit |
optimizepress.com | 6047 | CloudFlare | Namecheap |
lifescript.com | 6110 | Akamai | Savvis |
pornport.xxx | 6334 | CloudFlare | Enom DNS |
express.com | 6344 | Akamai | UltraDNS |
jquery4u.com | 6346 | DNS Made Easy | GoDaddy DNS |
informe21.com | 6729 | CloudFlare | AWS Route 53 |
findthecompany.com | 6938 | AWS Route 53 | CloudFlare |
tvrage.com | 7105 | CloudFlare | ZoneEdit |
iphonehacks.com | 7636 | AWS Route 53 | GoDaddy DNS |
fashionista.com | 7656 | Dyn | CloudFlare |
ssense.com | 8280 | CloudFlare | Rackspace Cloud DNS |
food52.com | 8758 | CloudFlare | GoDaddy DNS |
hubspot.net | 8956 | Akamai | DNS Made Easy |
filfan.com | 9026 | CloudFlare | easyDNS |
imgrind.com | 9109 | DNS Made Easy | CloudFlare |
autotrader.ca | 9277 | AWS Route 53 | easyDNS |
pijamasurf.com | 9350 | CloudFlare | Rackspace Cloud DNS |
internetbs.net | 9411 | AWS Route 53 | CloudFlare |
mrmoneymustache.com | 9488 | DNS Made Easy | ClouDNS |
downloadming.me | 9952 | GoDaddy DNS | UltraDNS |
qianzhan.com | 9986 | ClouDNS | DNSPod |
Fortune 500 DNS Marketshare – 5 Jun 2014
Historical Fortune 500 DNS Marketshare – 8 Apr 14 to 5 Jun 2014
Fortune 500 2013 DNS Marketshare – 5 Jun 2014
Provider | Rank | Websites (out of 500) | Marketshare | Marketshare Change |
---|---|---|---|---|
UltraDNS | 1 | 37 | 7.4% | -1 |
Verisign DNS | 2 | 34 | 6.8% | 0 |
Akamai | 3 | 23 | 4.6% | +1 |
Dyn | 4 | 15 | 3% | +2 |
DNS Made Easy | 5 | 8 | 1.6% | +1 |
GoDaddy DNS | 6 | 7 | 1.4% | +1 |
AWS Route 53 | 7 | 4 | 0.8% | 0 |
Internap | 8 | 4 | 0.8% | 0 |
Savvis | 9 | 4 | 0.8% | 0 |
Enom DNS | 10 | 2 | 0.4% | 0 |
Rackspace Cloud DNS | 11 | 2 | 0.4% | 0 |
easyDNS | 12 | 1 | 0.2% | 0 |
Softlayer DNS | 13 | 1 | 0.2% | 0 |
No-IP | 14 | 1 | 0.2% | 0 |
Fortune 500 DNS Switchers – 5 Jun 2014
There were no changes in managed DNS providers amongst Fortune 500 websites within this time period.
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