Hetzner DNS on new websites

1. Hetzner DNS appeared on about 2,100 new sites in the last 30 days.^[1]
2. It is unusually common on .de domains: 9.2% of the domains running it, against 0.27% of domains across new sites.

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use Hetzner DNS, day by day for the last 90 days and weekly before that (left of the dashed line). The shaded areas were measured against a different set of sites, so the line can step there without Hetzner DNS itself changing.^[2][3]

#	Movement	Tool	Share of all sites	Share of category	Bar
1	–	Cloudflare DNS	30.3%	31.8%
2	▼1	Hostinger DNS	9.6%	10.1%
3	▲1	GoDaddy DNS	8.4%	8.8%
4	–	Namecheap DNS	7.1%	7.4%
5	▼1	Vercel DNS	3.6%	3.8%
…
51	▼5	Hetzner DNS	0.1%	0.1%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any DNS Provider tool. Among September launches it ranked #56 in DNS Provider, down from #51 in August. All 14502 in DNS Provider

Tool	Sites with both	vs all new sites	Bar
Hetzner Email	3,216	835x
nginx	1,996	3.4x
Apache	859	3.0x

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

1,987 of the 6,098 sites using Hetzner DNS are product launches we list individually. The other 4,111 are sites we found crawling the wider web: they count towards the figures above, but we do not publish them one by one.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.

Site	Found	Also detected
Treustein – Datenraum für M&A-Berater treustein.com · Productivity	Oct 18
КВІТЛАБ — горщики й укорінювачі для кімнатних рослин kvitlab.com.ua · Ukraine	Oct 18
Websites for Expat Businesses in Asia | The Devil's Dev thedevilsdev.com	Oct 18
enigmatube.com enigmatube.com	Oct 18
deine eigene Seite, kostenlos sichtbar.page · Marketing	Oct 18
Tantevo — Honorar- und Lizenzabrechnung für Verlage und Lizenzgeber tantevo.de · Finance · Germany	Oct 18
Open Mics und Jam Sessions in deiner Stadt openstage.one	Oct 18
Totally Ad Free totallyadfree.com	Oct 18
Farb- und Stilberatung mit deinem eigenen Modefeed - typntone typntone.de · Germany	Oct 17
E-Invoice Compliance sandvel.com · Finance	Oct 17
C-Forged | Engineering-Software, Python & Automatisierung c-forged.com · Developer Tools · Germany	Oct 17
GiroWeb Mitte: Gemeinschaftsverpflegung digitalisieren giroweb.io · Germany	Oct 17

Showing the most recent 12 of 1,987.

The StackScope API serves all 6,098 sites using Hetzner DNS, filterable and exportable, from £15 a month.

1. These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
2. Grey: before 8 July 2026, we only tracked launches from launch platforms. From that date we crawl the wider web as well, so the share is measured against a much larger set of sites. For one continuous measure, view launch platforms only.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Green hosting is the share whose web host The Green Web Foundation lists as running on green energy, among sites checked since 1 April 2026, against the same share for every new site we checked over that time. Data from The Green Web Foundation.