Who runs the internet’s DNS

A zone-file census of 260,260,154 domains across 1,108 top-level zones, traced to the 2,200,472 nameservers that answer for them — run by 852,040 DNS operators on 26,252 networks. Snapshot 2026-11-09.

Top DNS operators by domains served

#OperatorDomainsShare
1domaincontrol.com47,535,86918.3%
2cloudflare.com41,999,28716.1%
3afternic.com12,230,0734.7%
4registrar-servers.com10,372,2754.0%
5googledomains.com9,888,0583.8%
6verify.hn7,456,2682.9%
7dns-parking.com7,377,6752.8%
8wixdns.net5,670,8642.2%
9ui-dns.org4,834,2051.9%
10ui-dns.com4,834,1461.9%
11ui-dns.biz4,832,8411.9%
12ui-dns.de4,832,7911.9%
13hichina.com4,195,9271.6%
14namebrightdns.com3,548,4481.4%
15share-dns.com3,308,5711.3%
16share-dns.net3,308,5381.3%
17spaceship.net3,201,2151.2%
18squarespacedns.com3,182,4601.2%
19nsone.net2,732,4871.0%
20alidns.com2,342,5800.9%

Top networks by domains served

NetworkASNsDomains
CloudflareAS13335, AS20924273,750,780
GoDaddyAS26496, AS44273, AS39810161,871,255
AmazonAS8987, AS14618, AS1650924,762,401
GoogleAS15169, AS394089, AS39698217,828,292
DigiCertAS12008, AS16552, AS19905, AS399153, AS399155, AS399156, AS39916312,003,630
IONOS SEAS85609,292,868
Fasthosts Internet LimitedAS154187,505,476
Hangzhou Alibaba Advertising Co.,Ltd.AS379637,092,871
NS1 (IBM)AS625975,787,494
China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd.AS98084,371,427

Explore the interactive census on this page, or the DNS dependency galaxy — the same data as a force-directed map of operator co-occurrence.