Top Traffic Sites

Google Cloud DNS · 38 of the top 1,000 websites (3.4%) 6 listed below · Show all sites

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The 1,000 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.

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CDN & Security DNS

Top 1,000 fully scanned (2026-10-17). Updated weekly; the totals use each site's latest result.

DNS Market Share, Top 1,000

AWS Route 53 29%Cloudflare DNS 17%Other 14%Akamai Edge DNS 13%Self-hosted 9.4%UltraDNS (DigiCert) 3.4%Google Cloud DNS 3.4%NS1 (IBM) 3.1%Azure DNS 2.0%DNS Made Easy 2.0%Google (own network) 1.4%CSC 0.9%Nominet 0.2%F5 DNS 0.2%Packet Clearing House 0.2%GoDaddy 0.2%DNSimple 0.1%Oracle Dyn 0.1%Vercel DNS 0.1%MarkMonitor 0.1%

Each site counts once; a site split across providers is split evenly (DNS: by nameserver count).

Sites

Google Cloud DNS · 38 of the top 1,000 websites

Rank	Site	Hostname scanned	DNS provider	CDN & security provider
16	bit.ly DNS AWS Route 53 50% + Google Cloud DNS 50% · CDN Google Cloud	`bit.ly` scanned 2026-10-17	AWS Route 53 50% + Google Cloud DNS 50%	Google Cloud
19	t.me DNS Google Cloud DNS · CDN Self-hosted (AS62041)	`t.me` scanned 2026-10-17	Google Cloud DNS	Self-hosted (AS62041)
20	spotify.com DNS Google Cloud DNS 80% + NS1 (IBM) 20% · CDN Fastly	`www.spotify.com` → `open.spotify.com` scanned 2026-10-17	Google Cloud DNS 80% + NS1 (IBM) 20%	Fastly
55	arxiv.org DNS Google Cloud DNS · CDN Fastly	`arxiv.org` scanned 2026-10-17	Google Cloud DNS	Fastly
87	telegram.me DNS Google Cloud DNS · CDN Self-hosted (AS62041)	`telegram.me` scanned 2026-10-17	Google Cloud DNS	Self-hosted (AS62041)
99	theatlantic.com DNS AWS Route 53 50% + Google Cloud DNS 50% · CDN Cloudflare	`www.theatlantic.com` scanned 2026-10-17	AWS Route 53 50% + Google Cloud DNS 50%	Cloudflare

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