Managed authoritative DNS provider with traffic-steering and routing features (acquired by IBM in 2024).
130,354 sites
128,652 found by StackScope, 1,702 via launch platforms
- StackScope Wider Web 109,829
- StackScope Discovery (Indie) 18,823
- Product Hunt 1,306
- Other 185
- PeerPush 119
- Hacker News 92
About 1 in 50 websites that went live in the last 30 days use NS1 (2.0%).
These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
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38,108 new sites with NS1 first seen in the last 30 days.
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See how alerts workShare of new sites using NS1
Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average; weekly averages before July 2026.
The shaded areas were measured against a different set of sites, so the line can step there without NS1 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.
What kind of sites use NS1
41,903 sites with a known type, all time
Domain endings using NS1
130,074 sites, all time
- .com 61.6%
- .in 4.9%
- .org 4.0%
- .uk 3.2%
- .online 3.1%
- .net 2.6%
- .app 2.5%
- .site 2.0%
- .co 2.0%
- .ca 1.9%
- .xyz 1.6%
- .fr 1.2%
- .store 1.0%
- .io 1.0%
- .ai 0.8%
Country
Country likely for 17,455 of 130,354 sites (13.4%), 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.
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India 25.1%
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United Kingdom 20.9%
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United States 14.5%
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Canada 9.9%
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France 9.8%
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Brazil 2.2%
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Sweden 2.1%
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Australia 2.0%
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Switzerland 1.3%
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New Zealand 1.2%
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Spain 1.2%
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Ireland 1.1%
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Germany 0.7%
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Italy 0.6%
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Türkiye 0.5%
Green hosting
1,702 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.
- NS1 3%
- Average 47%
DNS Provider leaders
| Tool | % of sitesall time | % of categoryall time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | – |
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30.3% | 31.8% |
| #2 | ▼1 |
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9.7% | 10.2% |
| #3 | ▲1 |
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8.2% | 8.6% |
| #4 | – |
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7.1% | 7.5% |
| #5 | ▼1 |
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3.6% | 3.8% |
| … | ||||
| #10 | ▼1 |
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2.3% | 2.4% |
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 NS1 on new websites are GoDaddy DNS and Vercel DNS. All 14477 in DNS Provider →
Recent launches using NS1
20,525 of the 130,354 sites using NS1 are product launches we list individually. The other 109,829 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
Showing the most recent 12 of 20,525.
The StackScope API serves all 130,354 sites using NS1, filterable and exportable, from £15 a month.