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DigitalOcean DNS on new websites

Managed nameservers for domains pointed at DigitalOcean droplets and apps.

#39 of 14477 in DNS Provider In our data since Apr 2026 Last seen: Oct 16, 2026 Most recent launch: Sensolytica | One sealed record for every vessel and vehicle, Oct 16, 2026 Website: docs.digitalocean.com

9,076 sites

8,496 found by StackScope, 580 via launch platforms

StackScope Wider Web 5,693 StackScope Discovery (Indie) 2,803 Product Hunt 390 Hacker News 80 Other 56 PeerPush 54
  • StackScope Wider Web 5,693
  • StackScope Discovery (Indie) 2,803
  • Product Hunt 390
  • Hacker News 80
  • Other 56
  • PeerPush 54
View: All sites All launches Launch platforms StackScope Discovery StackScope Wider Web

DigitalOcean DNS appeared on about 2,500 new sites in the last 30 days.

These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.

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Share of new sites using DigitalOcean DNS

Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average; weekly averages before July 2026.

0.1%
last 7 days
-0.0pp vs prior week
0.1%
30 days to Oct 15
-0.0pp vs 30 days before
9,076
sites all time
since Apr 2026
DigitalOcean DNS daily detection trend Before 8 July 2026: launch platforms only. We began crawling the wider web on this date, so the cohort this share is measured against changes here. 10 September 2026: we improved our infrastructure to index new sites much sooner, often on the day they go live, so the cohort this share is measured against changes here. 5% 2% 0% Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Weekly averages before this point, daily after. Jul 18 · 46 / 24700 = 0.2% Jul 19 · 42 / 27640 = 0.2% Jul 20 · 45 / 23851 = 0.2% Jul 21 · 68 / 22944 = 0.3% Jul 22 · 50 / 24372 = 0.2% Jul 23 · 38 / 18101 = 0.2% Jul 24 · 31 / 13980 = 0.2% Jul 25 · 28 / 9550 = 0.3% Jul 26 · 44 / 21750 = 0.2% Jul 27 · 81 / 37233 = 0.2% Jul 28 · 90 / 41885 = 0.2% Jul 29 · 109 / 53559 = 0.2% Jul 30 · 67 / 48256 = 0.1% Jul 31 · 109 / 56048 = 0.2% Aug 1 · 118 / 54886 = 0.2% Aug 2 · 106 / 53850 = 0.2% Aug 3 · 93 / 52614 = 0.2% Aug 4 · 84 / 40704 = 0.2% Aug 5 · 79 / 35346 = 0.2% Aug 6 · 76 / 39149 = 0.2% Aug 7 · 60 / 40250 = 0.1% Aug 8 · 83 / 42805 = 0.2% Aug 9 · 76 / 37777 = 0.2% Aug 10 · 61 / 32323 = 0.2% Aug 11 · 54 / 34557 = 0.2% Aug 12 · 64 / 37135 = 0.2% Aug 13 · 97 / 55468 = 0.2% Aug 14 · 99 / 56751 = 0.2% Aug 15 · 75 / 55907 = 0.1% Aug 16 · 102 / 56270 = 0.2% Aug 17 · 81 / 45696 = 0.2% Aug 18 · 100 / 56636 = 0.2% Aug 19 · 68 / 51679 = 0.1% Aug 20 · 89 / 68973 = 0.1% Aug 21 · 149 / 93843 = 0.2% Aug 22 · 146 / 94188 = 0.2% Aug 23 · 139 / 93592 = 0.1% Aug 24 · 134 / 81708 = 0.2% Aug 25 · 130 / 71529 = 0.2% Aug 26 · 113 / 66854 = 0.2% Aug 27 · 119 / 87832 = 0.1% Aug 28 · 157 / 87905 = 0.2% Aug 29 · 119 / 88061 = 0.1% Aug 30 · 137 / 100668 = 0.1% Aug 31 · 153 / 100235 = 0.2% Sep 1 · 130 / 103413 = 0.1% Sep 2 · 191 / 108914 = 0.2% Sep 3 · 134 / 103275 = 0.1% Sep 4 · 127 / 98530 = 0.1% Sep 5 · 166 / 102853 = 0.2% Sep 6 · 112 / 89271 = 0.1% Sep 7 · 98 / 86119 = 0.1% Sep 8 · 113 / 77964 = 0.1% Sep 9 · 89 / 75510 = 0.1% Sep 10 · 132 / 83643 = 0.2% Sep 11 · 109 / 85544 = 0.1% Sep 12 · 77 / 56763 = 0.1% Sep 13 · 76 / 57987 = 0.1% Sep 14 · 104 / 59224 = 0.2% Sep 15 · 79 / 58180 = 0.1% Sep 16 · 94 / 58939 = 0.2% Sep 17 · 76 / 56745 = 0.1% Sep 18 · 63 / 53080 = 0.1% Sep 19 · 72 / 45268 = 0.2% Sep 20 · 58 / 44755 = 0.1% Sep 21 · 74 / 51659 = 0.1% Sep 22 · 88 / 55401 = 0.2% Sep 23 · 78 / 58304 = 0.1% Sep 24 · 76 / 53457 = 0.1% Sep 25 · 74 / 50756 = 0.1% Sep 26 · 68 / 101513 = 0.1% Sep 27 · 67 / 52130 = 0.1% Sep 28 · 90 / 61105 = 0.1% Sep 29 · 118 / 77847 = 0.2% Sep 30 · 95 / 69707 = 0.1% Oct 1 · 78 / 69219 = 0.1% Oct 2 · 80 / 64714 = 0.1% Oct 3 · 92 / 53731 = 0.2% Oct 4 · 81 / 52048 = 0.2% Oct 5 · 77 / 63685 = 0.1% Oct 6 · 124 / 67582 = 0.2% Oct 7 · 75 / 67654 = 0.1% Oct 8 · 83 / 69304 = 0.1% Oct 9 · 90 / 70336 = 0.1% Oct 10 · 74 / 60630 = 0.1% Oct 11 · 79 / 65589 = 0.1% Oct 12 · 91 / 66620 = 0.1% Oct 13 · 74 / 70915 = 0.1% Oct 14 · 85 / 70641 = 0.1% Oct 15 · 124 / 93404 = 0.1%
Mar 30, 2026 90 days Oct 15, 2026

The shaded areas were measured against a different set of sites, so the line can step there without DigitalOcean DNS itself changing.

Coverage details

Before the dashed line where the dots begin, the line is a weekly average. After it, the last 90 days are shown one day at a time.

Grey: before 8 July 2026, we only tracked launches from launch platforms. From that date we crawl the wider web as well.

Amber: 8 July to 10 September 2026, before we improved our infrastructure to index new sites much sooner, often on the day they go live. Sites found that early often haven't finished setting up, so anything usually added after launch reads lower from 10 September. We record each site as it was when we found it.

The share is a proportion of whatever we were tracking at the time. For a single continuous measure, switch to launch platforms.

How StackScope detects technologies

What kind of sites use DigitalOcean DNS

3,546 sites with a known type, all time

Developer Tools
13.3%
Health
11.5%
Productivity
11.4%
Finance
9.3%
Education
8.4%
Marketing
7.9%
E-commerce
7.6%
Games
7.5%
AI
5.7%
Social
5.5%
Content
5.4%
Hiring & HR
2.2%
Crypto
1.9%
Design
1.4%
Directory
1.0%

Domain endings using DigitalOcean DNS

9,061 sites, all time

  • .com 52.9%
  • .app 7.1%
  • .io 3.6%
  • .in 3.4%
  • .ai 3.3%
  • .org 3.1%
  • .online 2.8%
  • .dev 2.4%
  • .co 2.2%
  • .net 2.1%
  • .uk 2.1%
  • .xyz 1.7%
  • .site 1.6%
  • .ca 1.6%
  • .me 1.3%

Country

Country likely for 1,005 of 9,076 sites (11.1%), all time.

How we know

Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.

  • India India 24.6%
  • United Kingdom United Kingdom 17.3%
  • United States United States 12.8%
  • Canada Canada 9.8%
  • Brazil Brazil 3.7%
  • Sweden Sweden 3.3%
  • Australia Australia 3.1%
  • Germany Germany 2.3%
  • Mexico Mexico 2.1%
  • France France 2.0%
  • Ukraine Ukraine 1.7%
  • Nigeria Nigeria 1.6%
  • New Zealand New Zealand 1.5%
  • Ireland Ireland 1.4%
  • Italy Italy 1.3%

Green hosting

580 checked sites since Apr 2026.

What this means

The share whose web host The Green Web Foundation lists as running on green energy, against the average for every new site we checked.

  • DigitalOcean DNS 31%
  • Average 47%

DNS Provider leaders

Tool % of sitesall time % of categoryall time
#1 – Cloudflare DNS 30.3% 31.8%
#2 ▼1 Hostinger DNS 9.7% 10.2%
#3 ▲1 GoDaddy DNS 8.2% 8.6%
#4 – Namecheap DNS 7.1% 7.5%
#5 ▼1 Vercel DNS 3.6% 3.8%
…
#39 ▼10 DigitalOcean DNS Current page 0.2% 0.2%

Percentages show all-time adoption across the new sites we track: the share of all of them, and of the sites using any DNS Provider tool.The most common alternatives to DigitalOcean DNS on new websites are Cloudflare DNS and GoDaddy DNS.Among September launches it ranked #42 in DNS Provider, down from #32 in August. All 14477 in DNS Provider →

Often used with

Tool Sites vs all new sites
nginx 4,317 5.0x

Tools that turn up far more often on DigitalOcean DNS sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.

Recent launches using DigitalOcean DNS

3,383 of the 9,076 sites using DigitalOcean DNS are product launches we list individually. The other 5,693 are sites we found crawling the wider web: they count towards the figures above, but we do not publish them one by one. They are included in the StackScope API and in Stackdar alerts. How StackScope Discovery works

Sensolytica | One sealed record for every vessel and vehicle Oct 16, 2026 Also detected Nuxt Vue.js DigitalOcean App Platform Amazon Web Services Milore — Creator Commerce Oct 16, 2026 · Health Also detected Next.js React DigitalOcean App Platform Cloudflare Bridge Oasis — Play Bridge Club Oct 16, 2026 Also detected Google Analytics Google Tag Manager nginx Ubuntu Finance Brain Oct 16, 2026 Also detected Next.js React nginx PostHog Planqare - Wijkzorg Routeplanning Oct 16, 2026 Also detected Next.js React DigitalOcean App Platform Auth.js ROASaurus · Server-side ad tracking for Shopify Oct 16, 2026 · Marketing Also detected Caddy Google Fonts AiVa — AI customer support for web, email, WhatsApp and Messenger Oct 16, 2026 Also detected Apache Tailwind CSS Vite Vibe & Harness | AI Enablement & Production Engineering Oct 16, 2026 · Developer Tools Also detected Next.js React DigitalOcean App Platform Cloudflare Gistlet — Product demo GIFs Oct 16, 2026 Also detected Next.js React Namecheap Email Forwarding Jainstory: Jain stories for every night of the year Oct 16, 2026 · Content Also detected nginx Ubuntu SuuUI · Quiet until it matters Oct 16, 2026 · Games Also detected Next.js React Export iPhone Text Messages to PDF | Texts2PDF Oct 16, 2026 · Productivity Also detected Apache Google Search Console Ubuntu

Showing the most recent 12 of 3,383.

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