Top Traffic Sites
Azure DNS · 2 of the top 20 websites (7.5%) Show all sites
Shares count the 20 of the top 20 sites that answered our last scan.
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The 20 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 20 fully scanned (2026-10-17). Updated weekly; the totals use each site's latest result.
DNS Market Share, Top 20
AWS Route 53 24%Self-hosted 22%Google Cloud DNS 12%Google (own network) 10%Akamai Edge DNS 10%NS1 (IBM) 8.5%Azure DNS 7.5%Packet Clearing House 2.5%Cloudflare DNS 2.5%UltraDNS (DigiCert) 0.6%Other 0.6%
Each site counts once; a site split across providers is split evenly (DNS: by nameserver count).
Sites
Azure DNS · 2 of the top 20 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 |