Legacy-gTLD nameserver providers

Which operator serves the DNS for each legacy gTLD domain, taken from the NS records in the daily zone files. No domain is resolved or fetched to produce this. Platforms that exist to park or monetise domains are broken out separately on the parking page.

New gTLDs Legacy gTLDs All gTLDs
Domains attributed
20,172,040
60.6% of counted domains
Providers identified
46
matched by nameserver suffix
Unrecognised nameservers
13,121,193
no provider pattern matched

As of 18 Aug 2026. Shares are of the 20,172,040 domains whose nameservers matched a known provider, not of all 33,293,233 counted.

Providers by domains served

ProviderKind DomainsShareTLDsSite
GoDaddy DNS registrar DNS 6,933,128
34.37%
14 site
Cloudflare CDN 5,023,912
24.91%
14 site
Google Cloud DNS managed DNS 1,396,013
6.92%
14 site
Namecheap Parking parking 1,354,966
6.72%
14 site
IONOS / 1&1 registrar DNS 996,963
4.94%
14 site
Wix hosting 668,616
3.31%
14 site
Hostinger registrar DNS 553,175
2.74%
14 site
Afternic parking 399,145
1.98%
12 site
Alibaba Cloud DNS managed DNS 385,810
1.91%
13 site
OVH registrar DNS 320,489
1.59%
14 site
NS1 managed DNS 318,131
1.58%
14 site
Porkbun registrar DNS 274,146
1.36%
13 site
Bluehost hosting 226,129
1.12%
14 site
Enom registrar DNS 144,727
0.72%
12 site
Gandi registrar DNS 143,091
0.71%
14 site
HostGator hosting 133,206
0.66%
14 site
DNSPod / Tencent managed DNS 114,908
0.57%
12 site
Squarespace / Google Domains registrar DNS 112,738
0.56%
7 site
Sedo parking 93,158
0.46%
14 site
Azure DNS managed DNS 71,842
0.36%
14 site
Cloudns managed DNS 62,859
0.31%
14 site
ParkLogic parking 60,077
0.3%
11 site
Hetzner hosting 50,254
0.25%
14 site
ParkingCrew parking 49,114
0.24%
12 site
Vercel hosting 46,976
0.23%
14 site
Cloudns.cc / DigitalOcean managed DNS 41,291
0.2%
14 site
DNSimple managed DNS 29,356
0.15%
14 site
DNS Made Easy managed DNS 29,052
0.14%
14 site
Amazon Route 53 managed DNS 28,985
0.14%
14 site
DAN.com parking 27,364
0.14%
13 site
Domain.com Parking parking 27,265
0.14%
13 site
Akamai CDN 25,965
0.13%
14 site
Sav.com parking 8,423
0.04%
10 site
Voodoo / Fabulous parking 6,212
0.03%
7 site
Bodis parking 6,180
0.03%
11 site
Above.com parking 4,051
0.02%
9 site
SmartName parking 2,275
0.01%
8 site
Dynadot Parking parking 1,217
0.01%
10 site
DomainMarket parking 520
0%
3 site
Tucows / OpenSRS registrar DNS 163
0%
9 site
Namesilo registrar DNS 120
0%
3 site
网易 / NetEase managed DNS 21
0%
2 site
Netlify hosting 3
0%
1 site
Shopify hosting 2
0%
1 site
Fastly CDN 1
0%
1 site
Efty parking 1
0%
1 site

Data currency. Domain counts on this page are from zone files dated and refresh daily. Registrar figures are from ICANN's monthly registry reports for April 2026, which ICANN publishes about three months in arrears; zone files contain no registrar information, so no fresher source exists. Full detail on methodology and live pipeline status.