Top Traffic Sites
Azure DNS · 6 of the top 100 websites (5.1%) Show all sites
Shares count the 99 of the top 100 sites that answered our last scan.
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The 100 highest-traffic websites, ranked by agreement across several public traffic and link lists, and the authoritative DNS provider of each site's domain and the CDN, WAF or cloud load balancer a visitor connects to first.
Top 100 fully scanned (2026-10-17). Updated weekly; the totals use each site's latest result.
DNS Market Share, Top 100
AWS Route 53 31%Cloudflare DNS 15%Self-hosted 11%NS1 (IBM) 9.4%Akamai Edge DNS 7.3%Azure DNS 5.1%Google Cloud DNS 4.8%UltraDNS (DigiCert) 4.1%Google (own network) 4.0%Other 3.2%Packet Clearing House 1.0%Nominet 1.0%DNSimple 1.0%DNS Made Easy 0.6%GoDaddy 0.3%
Each site counts once; a site split across providers is split evenly (DNS: by nameserver count).
Sites
Azure DNS · 6 of the top 100 websites
| Rank | Site | Hostname scanned | DNS provider | CDN & security provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | linkedin.com DNS NS1 (IBM) 50% + Azure DNS 50% · CDN Cloudflare | www.linkedin.comscanned 2026-10-17 | NS1 (IBM) 50% + Azure DNS 50% | Cloudflare |
| 9 | microsoft.com DNS Azure DNS · CDN Akamai | www.microsoft.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Azure DNS | Akamai |
| 39 | live.com DNS Azure DNS · CDN Microsoft (own network) | outlook.live.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Azure DNS | Microsoft (own network) |
| 47 | openai.com DNS Azure DNS · CDN Cloudflare | openai.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Azure DNS | Cloudflare |
| 64 | office.com DNS Azure DNS · CDN Microsoft (own network) | outlook.office.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Azure DNS | Microsoft (own network) |
| 81 | bing.com DNS NS1 (IBM) 50% + Azure DNS 50% · CDN Akamai | www.bing.comscanned 2026-10-17 | NS1 (IBM) 50% + Azure DNS 50% | Akamai |