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Who runs the world's DNS?
As of July 28, 2026 · census snapshot 2026-07-28
As of July 28, 2026, the largest DNS provider by domain count is GoDaddy, serving 18.51% of the 277.7 million domains with nameservers in the Defaults.Exposed census; Cloudflare follows at 14.71%.
| DNS provider | Domains | Share of NS domains |
|---|---|---|
| GoDaddy | 51,408,698 | 18.51% |
| Cloudflare | 40,869,253 | 14.71% |
| Afternic (GoDaddy parking) | 11,364,212 | 4.09% |
| Sedo / parking | 10,365,975 | 3.73% |
| 9,687,621 | 3.49% | |
| Namecheap | 9,197,255 | 3.31% |
| Wix | 7,114,280 | 2.56% |
| IONOS | 6,443,570 | 2.32% |
| NameBright | 3,465,430 | 1.25% |
| Alibaba | 3,080,523 | 1.11% |
| OVH | 2,775,509 | 1.00% |
| Strato | 2,296,212 | 0.83% |
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Statistic current as of July 28, 2026. Recomputed from the live census each edition; the number on this page and the machine-readable twin always match. Please cite Defaults.Exposed and link this page.
Defaults.Exposed, "Who runs the world's DNS?" (as of July 28, 2026). https://defaults.exposed/stats/who-runs-the-worlds-dns
Permalink:https://defaults.exposed/stats/who-runs-the-worlds-dns · Machine-readable:dns-provider-share.json · Licence:open data
Methodology: how we grade the internet · Source data: defaults.exposed/data. Updated with each census edition.