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DNS Site Operator
February 1st, 2025

This report details the names and locations of all DNS servers on the internet, as well as the number of domains that are serviced by these servers. In this fashion, we can discover

  • the number of sites hosted by ISPs
  • the number of sites hosted by hosting companies that use an ISP's facilities, but run their own name servers
  • the number of sites hosted by specialty DNS service providers
  • the organizations that choose to operate their own DNS servers rather than to use those of their ISP/hosting provider.

The survey works by determining each month the authoritative name server for each host (and more accurately, each domain) in our survey. We then count the number of domains hosted on each DNS server.

Search
Curious about the size of a the domain set handled by a particular ISP's name servers? Try searching for the ISP's name server. For example, to find Exodus' name servers, try
exodus.

    

Top 20 by Host Name
The top 20 name servers ranked according to the number of domains handled by each name server, with a name server uniquely identified by its fully qualifed name, are shown below.

Name Server Name   Name Server IP   Domains
a.share-dns.com  172.64.53.25  413,213
b.share-dns.net  172.64.52.239  413,213
dns.technorail.com  94.177.210.13  230,670
dns2.technorail.com  95.110.136.8  230,670
dns3.arubadns.net  95.110.220.5  230,661
dns4.arubadns.cz  81.2.216.238  230,660
ns5.kasserver.com  85.13.128.3  230,363
ns6.kasserver.com  85.13.159.101  230,357
ns1.siteground.net  75.2.77.104  203,691
ns2.siteground.net  99.83.229.113  203,688
ns1.bluehost.com  162.159.24.80  201,476
ns2.bluehost.com  162.159.25.175  201,467
ns02.one.com  185.10.11.10  192,722
ns01.one.com  195.206.121.10  192,716
ns1.dns.ne.jp  61.211.236.1  184,697
ns2.dns.ne.jp  133.167.21.1  184,678
ns1.dreamhost.com  162.159.26.14  184,475
ns2.dreamhost.com  162.159.26.81  184,471
ns3.dreamhost.com  162.159.27.84  184,451
jm1.dns.com  218.98.111.214  160,802

Survey Limitations
Our survey, while having an impressive 55,862,514 sites and 20,523,143 domains in the data set, does not include all web sites and domains. We only include those that we consider active, which, by our definition, means we found the site via a link from somewhere else. Sites not linked by anyone are by definition not included in the survey.

We also actively drop sites out of the survey that fail to respond 3 consecutive months to our HTTP queries. So, while a DNS server might still respond with information for a domain, if there is no active web site that we can reach for the domain in question, then the domain is not included in this survey at all, even if it still has other functioning services (such as email).



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