Managed nameservers from German hosting provider Hetzner Online.
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See how alerts work2,913 sites
2,743 found by StackScope, 170 via launch platforms
- StackScope Wider Web 1,841
- StackScope Discovery (Indie) 902
- Product Hunt 125
- Hacker News 24
- PeerPush 16
- Other 5
Hetzner DNS has been detected on 2,913 launches we've crawled. The 7-day rolling share is 0.1%, roughly steady week on week. Most recent detection: DSX — a checkable drone-show file format, today.
It's most commonly paired with Hetzner Email, nginx, and HSTS. By product type, the launches using it are most often Developer Tools (21%), Productivity (13%), and Games (9%). By estimated origin, most come from Germany (53%). By domain ending, launches using it are 2.0 times as likely as the average launch to live on a .net domain. The 171 scored launches using Hetzner DNS average a StackScope score of 6.6 out of 10, against 6.4 across all launches we score.
What kind of products ship with Hetzner DNS
972 launches
Domain endings using Hetzner DNS
2,911 sites
- .com 41.94%
- .app 12.99%
- .de 9.52%
- .dev 3.71%
- .net 3.71%
- .org 3.26%
- .io 2.85%
- .ai 2.75%
- .ch 2.16%
- .online 1.92%
- .me 1.65%
- .xyz 1.58%
- .cloud 1.31%
- .uk 1.24%
- .eu 1.00%
Country
30 of 2,913 sites, where we are confident of the country.
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Germany 53.33%
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Estonia 10.00%
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Australia 3.33%
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Belgium 3.33%
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Canada 3.33%
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Finland 3.33%
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United Kingdom 3.33%
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India 3.33%
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Latvia 3.33%
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Moldova 3.33%
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Netherlands 3.33%
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Romania 3.33%
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Ukraine 3.33%
Share of new sites using Hetzner DNS
Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average; weekly averages before June 2026.
The shaded part of the chart is measured against a different set of sites. Until 8 July 2026 we only tracked launches from launch platforms; from that date we crawl the wider web as well. The share is a proportion of whatever we were tracking at the time, so it can step at that line without the technology itself changing. For a single continuous measure, switch to launch platforms.
How StackScope detects technologies
⋮ Jul 1, 2026: Adoption figures now count launches from launch platforms. Use the source view to include StackScope Discovery.
DNS Provider leaders
| Tool | % of launches | % of category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | – |
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33.09% | 35.21% |
| #2 | – |
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12.94% | 13.77% |
| #3 | – |
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7.34% | 7.82% |
| #4 | – |
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4.21% | 4.48% |
| #5 | ▲2 |
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3.27% | 3.48% |
| … | ||||
| #49 | ▼11 |
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0.11% | 0.12% |
Percentages show adoption among indie launches: the share of all analysed launches, and of launches using any DNS Provider tool.Among August launches it ranked #53 in DNS Provider, down from #42 in July. All 11217 in DNS Provider →
Recent launches we can show
1,072 of the 2,913 sites using Hetzner DNS are product launches we list individually. The other 1,841 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
Showing the most recent 12 of 1,072.
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