Top Traffic Sites
NS1 (IBM) · 55 of the top 1,000 websites (3.1%) 17 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.
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
NS1 (IBM) · 55 of the top 1,000 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 |
| 10 | pinterest.com DNS Cloudflare DNS 50% + NS1 (IBM) 50% · CDN Fastly | www.pinterest.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Cloudflare DNS 50% + NS1 (IBM) 50% | Fastly |
| 13 | github.com DNS NS1 (IBM) 50% + AWS Route 53 50% · CDN Microsoft (own network) | github.comscanned 2026-10-17 | NS1 (IBM) 50% + AWS Route 53 50% | Microsoft (own network) |
| 20 | spotify.com DNS Google Cloud DNS 80% + NS1 (IBM) 20% · CDN Fastly | www.spotify.com → open.spotify.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Google Cloud DNS 80% + NS1 (IBM) 20% | Fastly |
| 26 | nytimes.com DNS NS1 (IBM) 50% + AWS Route 53 50% · CDN Fastly | www.nytimes.comscanned 2026-10-17 | NS1 (IBM) 50% + AWS Route 53 50% | Fastly |
| 30 | theguardian.com DNS NS1 (IBM) 50% + Other 50% · CDN Fastly | www.theguardian.comscanned 2026-10-17 | NS1 (IBM) 50% + Other 50% | Fastly |
| 35 | bbc.com DNS Other 50% + NS1 (IBM) 50% · CDN Fastly | www.bbc.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Other 50% + NS1 (IBM) 50% | Fastly |
| 42 | bbc.co.uk DNS Other 50% + NS1 (IBM) 50% · CDN Fastly | www.bbc.co.ukscanned 2026-10-17 | Other 50% + NS1 (IBM) 50% | Fastly |
| 50 | bloomberg.com DNS NS1 (IBM) 57% + UltraDNS (DigiCert) 43% · CDN Fastly | www.bloomberg.comscanned 2026-10-17 | NS1 (IBM) 57% + UltraDNS (DigiCert) 43% | Fastly |
| 58 | businessinsider.com DNS DNS Made Easy 60% + NS1 (IBM) 40% · CDN Fastly | www.businessinsider.comscanned 2026-10-17 | DNS Made Easy 60% + NS1 (IBM) 40% | Fastly |
| 61 | cnbc.com DNS NS1 (IBM) · CDN Akamai | www.cnbc.comscanned 2026-10-17 | NS1 (IBM) | Akamai |
| 73 | usatoday.com DNS NS1 (IBM) 50% + Other 50% · CDN Fastly | www.usatoday.comscanned 2026-10-17 | NS1 (IBM) 50% + Other 50% | Fastly |
| 79 | cbsnews.com DNS NS1 (IBM) 67% + Cloudflare DNS 33% · CDN Fastly | www.cbsnews.comscanned 2026-10-17 | NS1 (IBM) 67% + Cloudflare DNS 33% | Fastly |
| 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 |
| 83 | wix.com DNS NS1 (IBM) · CDN Google Cloud | manage.wix.comscanned 2026-10-17 | NS1 (IBM) | Google Cloud |
| 86 | yelp.com DNS NS1 (IBM) 50% + Other 50% · CDN Fastly | m.yelp.com → www.yelp.comscanned 2026-10-17 | NS1 (IBM) 50% + Other 50% | Fastly |
| 94 | etsy.com DNS NS1 (IBM) 50% + AWS Route 53 50% · CDN Fastly | www.etsy.comscanned 2026-10-17 | NS1 (IBM) 50% + AWS Route 53 50% | Fastly |
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