Sites using Directnic 
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See how alerts work251 sites
245 found by StackScope, 6 via launch platforms
- StackScope Wider Web 187
- StackScope Discovery (Indie) 58
- Product Hunt 5
- Hacker News 1
Directnic has been detected on 251 launches we've crawled, with 26 of those in October 2026 (0.0% of the month's launches so far). The 7-day rolling share is 0.0%, roughly steady week on week. Most recent detection: GreenRoom · Run the band, not the group chat., today.
It's most commonly paired with HSTS, Google Fonts, and HTTP/3. By product type, the launches using it are most often Health (16%), Content (13%), and Developer Tools (11%). By domain ending, launches using it are 4.7 times as likely as the average launch to live on a .net domain.
What kind of products ship with Directnic
90 launches
Domain endings using Directnic
251 sites
- .com 62.55%
- .net 9.16%
- .org 7.17%
- .app 4.38%
- .ai 3.19%
- .blog 2.79%
- .co 2.39%
- .art 1.59%
- .us 1.59%
- .io 1.20%
- .ca 0.80%
- .dev 0.40%
- .fun 0.40%
- .live 0.40%
- .me 0.40%
Share of new sites using Directnic
Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average; weekly averages before July 2026.
The shaded parts of the chart are measured against a different set of sites.
Grey: until 8 July 2026 we only tracked launches from launch platforms. From that date we crawl the wider web as well.
Amber: on 10 September 2026 we improved our infrastructure so we can 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 that date. We record each site as it was when we found it.
The share is a proportion of whatever we were tracking at the time, so it can step at these lines without the technology itself changing. For a single continuous measure, switch to launch platforms.
DNS Provider leaders
| Tool | % of launches | % of category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | – |
Cloudflare DNS
|
30.57% | 32.30% |
| #2 | – |
Hostinger DNS
|
10.07% | 10.64% |
| #3 | ▼1 |
Namecheap DNS
|
7.15% | 7.55% |
| #4 | ▲1 |
GoDaddy DNS
|
6.95% | 7.35% |
| #5 | ▼1 |
Vercel DNS
|
3.70% | 3.91% |
| … | ||||
| #349 | ▲99 | Directnic Current page | <0.01% | 0.01% |
Percentages show adoption among indie launches: the share of all analysed launches, and of launches using any DNS Provider tool.Among September launches it ranked #317 in DNS Provider, up from #416 in August. All 13911 in DNS Provider →
Often used with
| Tool | Sites |
|---|---|
| HSTS | 120 |
Google Fonts
|
107 |
| HTTP/3 | 63 |
Cloudflare
|
61 |
Vite
|
57 |
Tools most often detected on the same sites as Directnic.
Recent launches we can show
64 of the 251 sites using Directnic are product launches we list individually. The other 187 are sites we found crawling the wider web: they count towards the figures above, but we do not publish them one by one. How StackScope Discovery works
Bright Meadow Learning — Early-years maths with real curriculum progress
Education
Learn to read Thai, one small story at a time | Read Thai Daily
Education
SigFetch
intellishield | BioGate Card
the Australian tech events calendar
Robotron Cloud High Scores | MAME4iOS
Games
LDV Services — la gestion de votre club de tir
Viti Geo — lokal innsikt, global rekkevidde
Eva Innsýn · þinn stafræni starfsmaður
Cobra Charts Pokémon card market intelligence
Galaxy TechWorks — Software with purpose.
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