This is a followup from last month's DNS marketshare post. In this post we use the same top 10,000 Alexa websites from last month (based on a 10 Mar 2013 Alexa snapshot). We then mined the DNS servers for each of these websites again using the same technique. The tables below represent the changes in marketshare and DNS hosting occurring during this time period (about 30 days).
New to this post is marketshare analysis for 2012 US Fortune 500 companies. This is a list published annually by Fortune Magazine ranking public US companies by gross revenue. For this analysis, we used the corporate websites listed for these companies on the CNN.com website. This marketshare analysis shows a very different provider makeup relative to top Alexa websites.
Notable during the past 30 days was a large scale DNS DDoS attack against spam blacklist provider spamhaus. To avert this attack, spamhaus switched DNS hosting to CloudFlare who successfully worked internally and with upstream providers to defend spamhaus against the attack as documented on their blog. The resulting positive press, appears to have attracted many new customers with their marketshare increasing by nearly 9% (22 Alexa 10,000 websites).
Fortune 500 DNS Marketshare - Apr 8, 2013
The following table provides a comparison of DNS provider marketshare between Mar 5 and Apr 8 2013 for the 2012 US Fortune 500 Companies.
| Provider | Rank | Websites (out of 500) | Marketshare | Marketshare Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UltraDNS | 1 | 35 | 7% | +1 / +2.941% |
| Verisign DNS | 2 | 24 | 4.8% | 0 |
| Akamai | 3 | 13 | 2.6% | 0 |
| DynECT | 4 | 8 | 1.6% | 0 |
| DNS Made Easy | 5 | 6 | 1.2% | 0 |
| Savvis | 6 | 4 | 0.8% | 0 |
| GoDaddy DNS | 7 | 4 | 0.8% | 0 |
| Internap | 8 | 4 | 0.8% | 0 |
| Rackspace Cloud DNS | 9 | 2 | 0.4% | 0 |
| AWS Route 53 | 10 | 2 | 0.4% | +1 / +100% |
Alexa Top 1,000 DNS Marketshare - Apr 8, 2013
The following table provides a comparison of DNS provider marketshare between Mar 5 and Apr 8 2013 for the top 1,000 Alexa websites.
| Provider | Rank | Websites (out of 1,000) | Marketshare | Marketshare Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DynECT | 1 | 78 | 7.8% | +5 / +6.849% |
| UltraDNS | 2 | 62 | 6.2% | 0 |
| Akamai | 3 | 49 | 4.9% | +3 / +6.522% |
| AWS Route 53 | 4 | 36 | 3.6% | -1 / -2.703% |
| DNSPod | 5 | 28 | 2.8% | 0 |
| DNS Made Easy | 6 | 21 | 2.1% | 0 |
| GoDaddy DNS | 7 | 13 | 1.3% | 0 |
| Cotendo Advanced DNS | 8 | 11 | 1.1% | -1 / -8.333% |
| Verisign DNS | 9 | 11 | 1.1% | +1 / +10% |
| easyDNS | 10 | 10 | 1% | 0 |
| Rackspace Cloud DNS | 11 | 8 | 0.8% | 0 |
| CloudFlare | 12 | 8 | 0.8% | +2 / +33.333% |
| Enom DNS | 13 | 7 | 0.7% | 0 |
| Namecheap | 14 | 6 | 0.6% | 0 |
| Softlayer DNS | 15 | 5 | 0.5% | 0 |
| Internap | 16 | 4 | 0.4% | 0 |
| Savvis | 17 | 3 | 0.3% | 0 |
| Nettica | 18 | 2 | 0.2% | 0 |
| ClouDNS | 19 | 2 | 0.2% | 0 |
| ZoneEdit | 20 | 2 | 0.2% | 0 |
| DTDNS | 21 | 1 | 0.1% | 0 |
| EuroDNS | 22 | 1 | 0.1% | 0 |
| Worldwide DNS | 23 | 1 | 0.1% | 0 |
| No-IP | 24 | 1 | 0.1% | 0 |
Alexa Top 10,000 DNS Marketshare - Mar 5, 2013
The following table provides a comparison of DNS provider marketshare between Mar 5 and Apr 8 2013 for the top 10,000 Alexa websites. Notable here is AWS Route 53 replacing UltraDNS in the #2 slot and CloudFlare's large marketshare increase.
| Provider | Rank | Websites (out of 10,000) | Marketshare | Marketshare Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DynECT | 1 | 435 | 4.35% | +13 / +3.081% |
| AWS Route 53 | 2 | 370 | 3.7% | +10 / +2.778% |
| UltraDNS | 3 | 366 | 3.66% | -1 / -0.272% |
| DNSPod | 4 | 329 | 3.29% | +4 / +1.231% |
| GoDaddy DNS | 5 | 289 | 2.89% | 0 |
| CloudFlare | 6 | 282 | 2.82% | +22 / +8.462% |
| DNS Made Easy | 7 | 247 | 2.47% | +3 / +1.23% |
| Akamai | 8 | 214 | 2.14% | +6 / +2.885% |
| Rackspace Cloud DNS | 9 | 156 | 1.56% | -2 / -1.266% |
| Verisign DNS | 10 | 100 | 1% | +4 / +4.167% |
| Softlayer DNS | 11 | 80 | 0.8% | -1 / -1.235% |
| easyDNS | 12 | 74 | 0.74% | -4 / -5.128% |
| Namecheap | 13 | 72 | 0.72% | 0 |
| Enom DNS | 14 | 70 | 0.7% | 0 |
| Cotendo Advanced DNS | 15 | 57 | 0.57% | -2 / -3.39% |
| Savvis | 16 | 43 | 0.43% | 0 |
| ZoneEdit | 17 | 33 | 0.33% | 0 |
| Internap | 18 | 29 | 0.29% | 0 |
| Nettica | 19 | 28 | 0.28% | +1 / +3.704% |
| ClouDNS | 20 | 18 | 0.18% | +2 / +12.5% |
| DNS Park | 21 | 17 | 0.17% | 0 |
| Zerigo DNS | 22 | 10 | 0.1% | 0 |
| No-IP | 23 | 10 | 0.1% | 0 |
| EuroDNS | 24 | 9 | 0.09% | +1 / +12.5% |
| Worldwide DNS | 25 | 6 | 0.06% | 0 |
| DTDNS | 26 | 2 | 0.02% | -1 / -33.333% |
Top 20 Alexa Site Changes - Mar 5 to Apr 8 2013
As part of the marketshare analysis, we track which Alexa 10,000 sites have switched DNS providers since the last snapshot.
| Hostname | Rank | New DNS Provider | Previous DNS Provider |
|---|---|---|---|
| indiatimes.com | 133 | DynECT | UltraDNS |
| iminent.com | 308 | Akamai | Cotendo Advanced DNS |
| sergey-mavrodi.com | 452 | CloudFlare | AWS Route 53 |
| myntra.com | 906 | UltraDNS | AWS Route 53 |
| bookmyshow.com | 1930 | DynECT | UltraDNS |
| apserver.net | 1952 | AWS Route 53 | easyDNS |
| template-help.com | 2051 | CloudFlare | easyDNS |
| clubpenguin.com | 2125 | DynECT | easyDNS |
| prntscr.com | 2202 | CloudFlare | GoDaddy DNS |
| naturalnews.com | 2302 | Softlayer DNS | GoDaddy DNS |
| freemp3x.com | 2497 | CloudFlare | ClouDNS |
| iptorrents.com | 2671 | CloudFlare | Namecheap |
| ycombinator.com | 2888 | CloudFlare | easyDNS |
| dawanda.com | 3050 | CloudFlare | Cotendo Advanced DNS |
| yoast.com | 3364 | AWS Route 53 | Softlayer DNS |
| gratisjuegos.org | 4259 | CloudFlare | Softlayer DNS |
| cucirca.com | 4299 | AWS Route 53 | CloudFlare |
| frontdoor.com | 4374 | AWS Route 53 | Verisign DNS |
| awwwards.com | 4393 | DNS Made Easy | Rackspace Cloud DNS |
| hotklix.com | 4557 | UltraDNS | DynECT |
