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DNS Site Operator
October 1st, 2007

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
dns1.name-services.com  69.25.142.42  247,379
dns2.name-services.com  216.52.184.248  247,371
dns4.name-services.com  64.74.96.225  247,134
dns3.name-services.com  63.251.92.200  247,108
dns5.name-services.com  70.42.37.7  245,327
yns1.yahoo.com  66.218.71.205  148,929
yns2.yahoo.com  216.109.116.20  148,926
ns8.san.yahoo.com  66.218.71.205  144,579
ns9.san.yahoo.com  216.109.116.20  144,576
dns.technorail.com  62.149.128.2  130,978
dns2.technorail.com  62.149.132.2  130,933
ns1.dreamhost.com  66.33.206.206  123,281
ns2.dreamhost.com  208.96.10.221  123,212
ns3.dreamhost.com  66.33.216.216  111,063
ns.xinnetdns.com  210.51.170.66  90,992
ns.xinnet.cn  210.51.171.209  90,769
ns1.sedoparking.com  212.227.86.6  83,731
ns2.sedoparking.com  217.160.208.235  83,648
ns2.livedns.co.uk  213.171.193.250  81,954
ns1.livedns.co.uk  213.171.192.250  81,661

Survey Limitations
Our survey, while having an impressive 29,351,835 sites and 16,446,545 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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