Which authoritative DNS provider is most popular?

Based on the number of domains pointing to each authoritative DNS provider, GoDaddy is the most popular provider as of December 2019, powering over 6.6 million domains. This represents approximately 9% of the domains we surveyed.

Cloudflare is the next most popular with 3.3 million, followed by dns.com, 1&1 / IONOS and Wix.

The table below shows the approximate domain counts per provider, based on our survey of approximately 76 million domains.

Domain CountAuthoritative DNS provider
6658774GoDaddy
3373807Cloudflare
2738128dns.com
26528271&1
1572118Wix
1425320Strato
1241317OVH
1183378HiChina/Alibaba
980891DNSDun
796810one.com