Top websites: who runs their DNS and edge
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 front door of the hostname people actually load.
All 20 sites scanned (preview, 2026-10-17). Rescanned weekly from Monday, Oct 19, 07:00 UTC, together with the rest of the top 1,000.
DNS 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 (Vercara) 0.6%Other 0.6%
Each site counts once; a site split across providers is split evenly (DNS: by nameserver count).
Sites
| Rank | Site | Hostname scanned | DNS provider | Confidence | Edge provider | Confidence | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | facebook.com | www.facebook.com | Self-hosted | High | Self-hosted (AS32934) | Medium | 3 |
| 2 | google.com | www.google.com | Google (own network) | High | Google Cloud | Low | 3 |
| 3 | instagram.com | www.instagram.com | Self-hosted | High | Self-hosted (AS32934) | Medium | 3 |
| 4 | youtube.com | www.youtube.com | Google (own network) | High | Google Cloud | Low | 3 |
| 5 | linkedin.com | www.linkedin.com | NS1 (IBM) 50% + Azure DNS 50% | Medium | Cloudflare | High | 3 |
| 6 | apple.com | www.apple.com | Self-hosted 50% + Packet Clearing House 50% | Medium | Akamai | High | 3 |
| 7 | wikipedia.org | en.wikipedia.org | Self-hosted | High | Self-hosted (AS14907) | Medium | 3 |
| 8 | x.com | x.com | AWS Route 53 75% + UltraDNS (Vercara) 13% + Other 13% | Medium | Cloudflare | High | 3 |
| 9 | microsoft.com | www.microsoft.com | Azure DNS | High | Akamai | High | 3 |
| 10 | pinterest.com | www.pinterest.com | Cloudflare DNS 50% + NS1 (IBM) 50% | Medium | Fastly | High | 3 |
| 11 | whatsapp.com | www.whatsapp.com | Self-hosted | High | Self-hosted (AS32934) | Medium | 3 |
| 12 | tiktok.com | www.tiktok.com | Akamai Edge DNS | High | Akamai | High | 3 |
| 13 | github.com | github.com | NS1 (IBM) 50% + AWS Route 53 50% | Medium | Azure | Low | 3 |
| 14 | vimeo.com | vimeo.com | AWS Route 53 | High | Cloudflare | High | 3 |
| 15 | amazon.com | www.amazon.com | AWS Route 53 | High | AWS | High | 3 |
| 16 | bit.ly | bit.ly | AWS Route 53 50% + Google Cloud DNS 50% | Medium | Google Cloud | Medium | 3 |
| 17 | adobe.com | www.adobe.com | Akamai Edge DNS | High | Akamai | High | 3 |
| 18 | reddit.com | www.reddit.com | AWS Route 53 | High | Fastly | High | 3 |
| 19 | t.me | t.me | Google Cloud DNS | High | Self-hosted (AS62041) | Medium | 3 |
| 20 | spotify.com | www.spotify.com → open.spotify.com | Google Cloud DNS 80% + NS1 (IBM) 20% | Medium | Fastly | High | 3 |
Confidence: High = independent evidence types agree (for example CNAME + published IP range + BGP origin, or every nameserver on one vendor by name or address); Medium = one strong signal; Low = weak or partial. Sources = how many public lists rank the site (2+ required). See methodology.