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DNS Site Operator
January 1st, 2006

This report details the names and locations of all DNS servers on the internet, as well as the number of domains that are serviced by these servers. In this fashion, we can discover

  • the number of sites hosted by ISPs
  • the number of sites hosted by hosting companies that use an ISP's facilities, but run their own name servers
  • the number of sites hosted by specialty DNS service providers
  • the organizations that choose to operate their own DNS servers rather than to use those of their ISP/hosting provider.

The survey works by determining each month the authoritative name server for each host (and more accurately, each domain) in our survey. We then count the number of domains hosted on each DNS server.

Search
Curious about the size of a the domain set handled by a particular ISP's name servers? Try searching for the ISP's name server. For example, to find Exodus' name servers, try
exodus.

    

Top 20 by Host Name
The top 20 name servers ranked according to the number of domains handled by each name server, with a name server uniquely identified by its fully qualifed name, are shown below.

Name Server Name   Name Server IP   Domains
dns2.name-services.com  216.52.184.230  141,252
dns1.name-services.com  69.25.142.1  141,239
dns3.name-services.com  63.251.92.193  140,933
dns4.name-services.com  64.74.96.242  140,633
dns5.name-services.com  212.118.243.118  140,284
dns.technorail.com  62.149.128.2  71,539
dns2.technorail.com  62.149.132.2  71,527
yns1.yahoo.com  66.218.71.205  70,210
yns2.yahoo.com  216.109.116.20  70,179
wsc1.jomax.net  64.202.165.4  68,880
wsc2.jomax.net  64.202.167.50  68,872
ns.xinnetdns.com  210.51.170.66  68,294
ns.xinnet.cn  202.106.124.194  68,246
ns1.ipowerweb.net  64.70.61.130  67,711
ns1.directnic.com  204.13.172.154  64,675
ns0.directnic.com  204.251.10.100  64,642
ns1.livedns.co.uk  213.171.192.250  64,162
ns2.livedns.co.uk  213.171.193.250  64,146
ns1.ipowerdns.com  66.235.217.202  61,019
ns2.rackspace.com  65.61.188.4  50,883

Survey Limitations
Our survey, while having an impressive 19,032,607 sites and 11,843,774 domains in the data set, does not include all web sites and domains. We only include those that we consider active, which, by our definition, means we found the site via a link from somewhere else. Sites not linked by anyone are by definition not included in the survey.

We also actively drop sites out of the survey that fail to respond 3 consecutive months to our HTTP queries. So, while a DNS server might still respond with information for a domain, if there is no active web site that we can reach for the domain in question, then the domain is not included in this survey at all, even if it still has other functioning services (such as email).



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