Web Hosting Statistics 2026: Provider Market Share and IPv6 Adoption
Every website has to point its domain name at an IP address, and whoever answers at that address is its host. We read the DNS records of every domain that publishes an IP address, 292,860,014 of them, and found that Cloudflare sits in front of 12.8%, 37.4 million domains. The largest company once its services are added up, though, is GoDaddy: five services, from parked names to a site builder that serves a website on 98.3% of its domains, add up to 16.9%.
On this page 13 sections
- Cloudflare sits in front of 12.8% of the web, and GoDaddy holds four of the next ten places
- Which providers are running websites
- GoDaddy runs 16.9% of the web on five services, four of them on addresses Amazon owns
- The top-ranked sites sit on AWS, Cloudflare and the enterprise CDNs
- The busiest IP address on the internet serves almost no websites
- Half the internet's A records point at 263 IP addresses
- Most domains have one IP address and no spare
- 6.0% of domains point at an address that did not answer
- IPv6 follows the network a domain sits on
- 59.1% of domains with a known country point at an IP address registered in the United States
- Who runs the DNS
- Frequently asked questions
- Methodology and sources
- Cloudflare is the largest provider by domains, in front of 12.8% of resolving domains, 37,403,719, and it serves a page on 80.0% of the ones with a crawl result. GoDaddy parking (on AWS) is second at 22,239,769; a parking lander, the placeholder page a parked name shows, does not count as a served page, so its serving share is 1.3% by construction.
- GoDaddy is the largest company once its services are added up: five services on 49,383,026 domains, 16.9% of the web. Four of them sit on addresses Amazon owns, which is why Amazon's own address blocks hold 74,794,773 domains when hosting is ranked by address owner.
- The busiest IP address on the internet is 3.33.130.190, which 22,313,054 domain names point at; 1.4% of them get a website rather than a GoDaddy parking page. The busiest IP address that is genuinely a web host is 185.230.63.107 on Wix, with 7,131,754 domains and 97.0% serving.
- 263 IP addresses have more than a hundred thousand domain names pointing at them each, and they hold 53.9% of every A record, the DNS line that gives a domain its IPv4 address. At the other end 7,919,817 IP addresses have exactly one.
- 57.2% of domains with an A record publish exactly one IPv4 address, 166,409,314 domains, so DNS offers them no second address to fall back to. Only 0.8% publish addresses belonging to more than one company; what redundancy there is sits inside one network, through anycast, one address answered from many locations.
- 6.0% of resolving domains publish an IP address that did not answer when we tried it, mostly timeouts (15,449,376) and refusals (1,384,497). A timeout can also be a firewall; a refusal is the clearest sign of a stale A record, one still pointing at a machine that has gone.
- IPv6 reaches 23.8% of resolving domains, 69,736,003 of them, through an AAAA record, the DNS line for an IPv6 address. 97.5% of those also publish an IPv4 address, so only 1,773,477 domains are reachable over IPv6 alone.
- IPv6 tracks the network a domain sits on. Among networks holding a million domains or more it runs from 94.1% on Strato to 0.7% on XServer Cloud, a spread of 134.4 to one.
- 59.1% of the domains whose IP address the registry places in a country point at one registered in the United States. 21.6% of those sit behind a reverse proxy, a service that answers in front of a site hosted elsewhere, and more again are parked names. Take both out and 93,089,531 are left, 54.4% of the American total.
- GoDaddy answers DNS for 53,913,594 domains and Cloudflare for 44,985,559. Ten companies answer DNS for 49.9% of every domain that publishes a nameserver.
Cloudflare sits in front of 12.8% of the web, and GoDaddy holds four of the next ten places
This report counts hosting by where each domain's DNS records point. A domain resolves when its DNS publishes an IP address, and "the web" here means the 292,860,014 domains that do, out of 337.5 million that answer DNS at all.
Two terms carry every table. A network is the company the address registry says owns a block of IP addresses. A provider is the company whose service actually answers there. GoDaddy's parking pages answer on addresses Amazon owns, so the network is Amazon and the provider is GoDaddy; the tables name the provider wherever the two can be told apart.
A domain serves a page when the crawl got a real website rather than a parking lander, the placeholder page a parked or for-sale name shows. Serving shares are of the 242,210,920 domains the crawl got a clear result from, a page or a failure. The "No crawl result" column is the share of each provider's domains with no verdict at all.
| Provider | Domains | Serve a page, of those with a result | No crawl result, of all | IPv6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Cloudflare | 37,403,719 | 80.0% | 11.2% | 81.3% |
 GoDaddy parking (on AWS) | 22,239,769 | 1.3% | 39.8% | 1.0% |
 AWS | 20,981,382 | 46.4% | 21.6% | 6.5% |
 GoDaddy aftermarket (on AWS) | 12,312,207 | 0.5% | 3.3% | 0.9% |
 IONOS | 9,818,904 | 35.8% | 30.0% | 71.6% |
 Squarespace | 8,928,111 | 93.7% | 4.4% | 0.7% |
 Hostinger | 8,268,281 | 86.5% | 7.7% | 63.1% |
 Wix | 7,294,657 | 96.0% | 2.6% | 0.7% |
 Namecheap | 7,218,426 | 58.1% | 23.9% | 1.2% |
| GoDaddy hosting (on AWS) | 6,930,788 | 31.9% | 31.6% | 0.7% |
| GoDaddy Website Builder (on AWS) | 5,947,582 | 98.3% | 1.8% | 0.7% |
 OVH | 5,503,437 | 61.3% | 15.8% | 14.1% |
 Google | 5,455,642 | 77.5% | 13.8% | 6.3% |
 Hetzner Online | 5,279,826 | 70.6% | 11.3% | 26.4% |
 Shopify (on Cloudflare) | 4,959,588 | 87.8% | 9.6% | 38.7% |
 HugeDomains (on AWS) | 3,451,643 | 2.0% | 39.0% | 98.8% |
 Vercel (on AWS) | 2,930,411 | 96.4% | 2.9% | 1.1% |
 GMO Internet | 2,892,839 | 42.3% | 27.8% | 2.2% |
 Strato | 2,644,446 | 42.7% | 27.3% | 94.1% |
 Akamai Cloud | 2,632,467 | 72.7% | 22.3% | 15.8% |
 SEDO | 2,561,383 | 16.0% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
 Alibaba | 2,548,751 | 51.7% | 26.2% | 2.0% |
 Oracle | 2,345,648 | 88.8% | 7.5% | 1.2% |
| GoDaddy | 1,952,680 | 80.3% | 9.9% | 0.9% |
 DigitalOcean | 1,860,794 | 76.4% | 12.7% | 13.4% |
| Confluence | 1,718,040 | 74.5% | 22.9% | 1.1% |
 Automattic | 1,681,133 | 86.6% | 7.5% | 0.7% |
 All-Inkl | 1,504,059 | 76.7% | 13.0% | 0.7% |
 REG.RU | 1,444,449 | 51.3% | 26.3% | 39.2% |
 Unified Layer | 1,435,168 | 73.4% | 18.6% | 1.0% |
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Cloudflare sits in front of 37,403,719 domains, 12.8% of the web, and serves a page on 80.0% of the ones with a crawl result. It is a reverse proxy, a service that answers in front of a site hosted somewhere else. Its customers share the same addresses, so its row cannot be split into the hosts behind it.
Behind it, four of the next ten places are GoDaddy services, and each behaves differently: the parking pages serve a page on 1.3% of their domains, the Website Builder on 98.3%. With GoDaddy's own network the five add up to 49,383,026 domains, 16.9% of the web, more than any other company.
The ten largest providers hold 48.3% of resolving domains, and the thirty largest hold 69.0%. That is spread more thinly than the other markets measured on this blog. The ten largest domain extensions hold 72.5% of all registrations, and the five largest content management systems hold 88.1% of the sites that run one.
Counting every domain, no provider holds more than 12.8%. Counting by company, GoDaddy's five services hold 16.9%, so the most concentrated thing in hosting is one company's portfolio rather than any single service.
Which providers are running websites
| Provider | Domains | Serve a page, of those with a result | No crawl result, of all | IPv6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GoDaddy Website Builder (on AWS) | 5,947,582 | 98.3% | 1.8% | 0.7% |
| Vercel (on AWS) | 2,930,411 | 96.4% | 2.9% | 1.1% |
| Wix | 7,294,657 | 96.0% | 2.6% | 0.7% |
| Squarespace | 8,928,111 | 93.7% | 4.4% | 0.7% |
| Oracle | 2,345,648 | 88.8% | 7.5% | 1.2% |
| Shopify (on Cloudflare) | 4,959,588 | 87.8% | 9.6% | 38.7% |
| Automattic | 1,681,133 | 86.6% | 7.5% | 0.7% |
| Hostinger | 8,268,281 | 86.5% | 7.7% | 63.1% |
| GoDaddy | 1,952,680 | 80.3% | 9.9% | 0.9% |
| Cloudflare | 37,403,719 | 80.0% | 11.2% | 81.3% |
| Google | 5,455,642 | 77.5% | 13.8% | 6.3% |
| All-Inkl | 1,504,059 | 76.7% | 13.0% | 0.7% |
| DigitalOcean | 1,860,794 | 76.4% | 12.7% | 13.4% |
| Confluence | 1,718,040 | 74.5% | 22.9% | 1.1% |
| Unified Layer | 1,435,168 | 73.4% | 18.6% | 1.0% |
| Akamai Cloud | 2,632,467 | 72.7% | 22.3% | 15.8% |
| Hetzner Online | 5,279,826 | 70.6% | 11.3% | 26.4% |
| OVH | 5,503,437 | 61.3% | 15.8% | 14.1% |
| Namecheap | 7,218,426 | 58.1% | 23.9% | 1.2% |
| Alibaba | 2,548,751 | 51.7% | 26.2% | 2.0% |
| REG.RU | 1,444,449 | 51.3% | 26.3% | 39.2% |
| AWS | 20,981,382 | 46.4% | 21.6% | 6.5% |
| Strato | 2,644,446 | 42.7% | 27.3% | 94.1% |
| GMO Internet | 2,892,839 | 42.3% | 27.8% | 2.2% |
| IONOS | 9,818,904 | 35.8% | 30.0% | 71.6% |
| GoDaddy hosting (on AWS) | 6,930,788 | 31.9% | 31.6% | 0.7% |
| SEDO | 2,561,383 | 16.0% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| HugeDomains (on AWS) | 3,451,643 | 2.0% | 39.0% | 98.8% |
| GoDaddy parking (on AWS) | 22,239,769 | 1.3% | 39.8% | 1.0% |
| GoDaddy aftermarket (on AWS) | 12,312,207 | 0.5% | 3.3% | 0.9% |
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Sorted by the share of their own domains that serve a page, the same providers split into site builders at the top and parked names at the bottom. GoDaddy's Website Builder serves a page on 98.3% of its domains; GoDaddy's aftermarket does on 0.5% and its parking on 1.3%.
Wix and Squarespace sit near the top because a domain on either is a website by construction: nobody points a name at them for any other reason. The CMS report counts the same two platforms by what runs on the page rather than by where the name points.
At the bottom sit the parking and domain resale networks, where a domain resolves because somebody wants to sell it rather than use it. The domain registration report puts that population at 31,975,287 names, 8.0% of registrations, measured over every registered name rather than every resolving one.
The provider a name points at is a strong sign of whether it is a website: on a site builder it almost always is, and on a parking or resale network it almost never is.
GoDaddy runs 16.9% of the web on five services, four of them on addresses Amazon owns
| Platform | Sits on | Domains | Serve a page |
|---|---|---|---|
| GoDaddy parking | AWS | 22,316,430 | 1.4% |
| GoDaddy aftermarket | AWS | 12,769,245 | 0.5% |
| GoDaddy hosting | AWS | 6,969,878 | 32.0% |
| GoDaddy Website Builder | AWS | 5,975,851 | 98.3% |
| Shopify | Cloudflare | 5,016,894 | 87.8% |
| HugeDomains | AWS | 3,490,113 | 2.0% |
| Vercel | AWS | 3,310,449 | 96.3% |
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These counts use every A record in the scan window, so they run slightly higher than the provider table, which takes each domain's latest scan. The text below uses the provider table's counts.
49,383,026 domains resolve to a GoDaddy service, 16.9% of the web. Only GoDaddy's own network, 1,953,119 domains serving a page on 80.3%, sits on addresses it holds.
The other four sit on Amazon-owned addresses, each on its own pair of Global Accelerator endpoints, and they behave nothing alike. Parking serves a website rather than a lander on 1.3% of its domains, and the aftermarket, which lists names on Afternic, GoDaddy's domain resale marketplace, on 0.5%. Hosting serves a page on 31.9% and the Website Builder on 98.3%.
Nameservers cannot find a platform. A Shopify merchant or a Vercel developer keeps the DNS their registrar gave them and points one A record, the DNS line that gives a domain its IPv4 address, at the platform. A nameserver lookup sees Namecheap and never sees the platform: ranking by nameserver found three Shopify domains where the address block found 5,016,894.
Address blocks can. Amazon owns the addresses 74,794,773 domains point at, and 73.3% of those domains run six products belonging to somebody else: GoDaddy's four, HugeDomains, a domain resale business, and Vercel, a hosting platform for web apps. With those taken out, the provider table's AWS row holds 20,981,382.
The seventh platform, Shopify, sits on a block Cloudflare announces, and the provider table gives its stores a row of their own, Shopify (on Cloudflare).
| Whose nameservers answer | Domains on AWS | Share of AWS | Serve a page |
|---|---|---|---|
| GoDaddy | 41,548,631 | 55.6% | 31.4% |
| Everyone else | 16,634,087 | 22.2% | 37.9% |
| Afternic | 11,035,636 | 14.8% | 0.5% |
| AWS Route 53 | 1,767,676 | 2.4% | 74.4% |
| Cloudflare | 1,139,192 | 1.5% | 84.3% |
| Namecheap | 747,845 | 1.0% | 88.4% |
 IBM NS1 | 602,808 | 0.8% | 95.1% |
| Google Cloud DNS | 395,393 | 0.5% | 86.4% |
| No nameserver seen | 392,820 | 0.5% | 42.4% |
| Hostinger | 262,555 | 0.4% | 93.3% |
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Nameservers cannot find Shopify or Vercel, but they do show how much of Amazon's address space GoDaddy's DNS answers for. GoDaddy's registrar DNS answers for 55.6% of the domains on Amazon addresses and Afternic for 11,035,636 more, 70.3% between them. The Afternic slice serves a page on 0.5%.
A nameserver says who runs the DNS, never who owns the name, so this cut cannot separate GoDaddy's own stock from a customer's registration that was never built on. Of the 41,548,631 AWS domains on GoDaddy nameservers, 8.9 million, 31.4%, serve a page.
The AWS most people mean, cloud customers using Route 53, Amazon's own DNS service, is a small part of its own row, and those domains, like the ones on Cloudflare nameservers, serve a page on three quarters and more. GoDaddy's DNS reaches far less of Cloudflare: 7.1% of Cloudflare's domains use GoDaddy nameservers.
Counted by who owns the address, AWS looks like the largest host. Counted by who answers, most of its row is GoDaddy's inventory and other companies' products.
The top-ranked sites sit on AWS, Cloudflare and the enterprise CDNs
| Tranco rank | Largest | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 to 1,000 | AWS23.2% | Cloudflare15.9% | Google8.7% |  Fastly7.6% | Akamai6.2% |
| 1,001 to 10,000 | Cloudflare27.9% | AWS19.6% | Google6.1% | Akamai4.4% | Fastly3.6% |
| 10,001 to 50,000 | Cloudflare29.3% | AWS18.1% | Fastly3.3% | Akamai3.0% | Google3.0% |
| 50,001 to 100,000 | Cloudflare35.3% | AWS14.0% | Google2.5% | Fastly2.2% |  Microsoft2.0% |
| 100,001 to 500,000 | Cloudflare33.6% | AWS10.7% | Shopify3.0% | Hetzner Online2.4% | Google2.3% |
| 500,001 to 1 million | Cloudflare32.8% | AWS8.2% | Shopify4.4% | Hetzner Online2.6% | OVH2.3% |
| 1 to 2 million | Cloudflare28.2% | AWS6.8% | Shopify4.0% | Hetzner Online2.9% | OVH2.8% |
| Over 2 million | Cloudflare23.6% | AWS6.8% | Hetzner Online4.2% | Shopify3.2% | Google2.8% |
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Which provider a site uses changes with its rank in Tranco, a public ranking of the most visited sites, and the providers at the top change at every band.
AWS leads exactly one band, the top thousand, at 23.2%. Cloudflare leads every band from rank 1,001 down, and its share is not flat: 27.9% from rank 1,001, a peak of 35.3% between rank 50,001 and 100,000, and 23.6% beyond rank two million. Both ends of the list are less concentrated than the middle.
The two enterprise CDNs, content delivery networks that serve large sites from many locations, appear only near the top. Akamai and Fastly are 13.8% of the top thousand between them, and neither is in the top five below rank one hundred thousand. Hetzner and OVH only appear past rank one hundred thousand.
Shopify is the row that only shows up when counting by provider. Its stores sit on Cloudflare's addresses, so by address owner they disappear into Cloudflare's row. Counted as a provider, Shopify is third from rank 100,001 to two million, at 3.0% to 4.4% of each band, and fourth beyond that. No other platform reaches a top five: GoDaddy's five services, 16.9% of the web by count, hold no place in any band, because a parked name has no traffic to rank with.
Counting every domain, no provider holds more than 12.8%. Among the thousand top-ranked sites AWS holds close to a quarter, and between rank 50,001 and 100,000 Cloudflare holds more than a third, so every band of ranked sites is more concentrated than the web as a whole.
The busiest IP address on the internet serves almost no websites
| IP address | Whose address | What runs on it | Domain names | Serve a page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.33.130.190 | AWS | GoDaddy parking | 22,313,054 | 1.4% |
| 15.197.148.33 | AWS | GoDaddy parking | 22,288,707 | 1.4% |
| 13.248.169.48 | AWS | GoDaddy aftermarket | 12,682,811 | 0.5% |
| 76.223.54.146 | AWS | GoDaddy aftermarket | 12,682,801 | 0.5% |
| 185.230.63.107 | Wix | Wix | 7,131,754 | 97.0% |
| 198.185.159.144 | Squarespace | Squarespace | 7,093,708 | 93.9% |
| 198.185.159.145 | Squarespace | Squarespace | 7,035,783 | 93.9% |
| 198.49.23.144 | Squarespace | Squarespace | 7,028,500 | 93.9% |
| 198.49.23.145 | Squarespace | Squarespace | 7,027,241 | 93.9% |
| 3.33.251.168 | AWS | GoDaddy hosting | 6,953,538 | 32.0% |
| 15.197.225.128 | AWS | GoDaddy hosting | 6,952,459 | 31.9% |
| 185.230.63.171 | Wix | Wix | 6,651,860 | 97.1% |
| 185.230.63.186 | Wix | Wix | 6,628,656 | 97.1% |
| 13.248.243.5 | AWS | GoDaddy Website Builder | 5,954,978 | 98.3% |
| 76.223.105.230 | AWS | GoDaddy Website Builder | 5,937,997 | 98.3% |
| 188.114.97.2 | Cloudflare | Cloudflare | 5,397,265 | 81.3% |
| 188.114.96.2 | Cloudflare | Cloudflare | 5,397,250 | 81.3% |
| 13.223.25.84 | AWS | HugeDomains | 3,455,127 | 2.0% |
| 54.243.117.197 | AWS | HugeDomains | 3,455,056 | 2.0% |
| 76.223.67.189 | AWS | AWS | 3,045,368 | 4.5% |
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22,313,054 domain names have an A record pointing at the single IP address 3.33.130.190. 1.4% of them get a website rather than GoDaddy's parking page. This count reads every A record pointing at the address, so it runs a little above the 22,239,769 domains on the parking row of the provider table.
The busiest addresses come in matched pairs that answer for one population of names. 3.33.130.190 and 15.197.148.33 list 44,601,761 domains between them but only 22,315,970 different names, the same list published twice so that a resolver has a second address to try.
The four busiest IP addresses on the internet all behave this way. They are GoDaddy's parking and aftermarket addresses; the first two are the ones GoDaddy's own help pages tell customers to point a parked name at. They are not web servers under strain.
Read the "Whose address" and "What runs on it" columns together: every one of the twenty addresses is owned by AWS, Cloudflare, Wix or Squarespace, and 10 of them run a product belonging to somebody else.
The busiest IP address genuinely serving websites is 185.230.63.107 on Wix, with 7,131,754 domains and 97.0% of them returning a page.
The busiest addresses on the internet hold parked and for-sale names, and the busiest one serving websites belongs to a site builder.
Half the internet's A records point at 263 IP addresses
| Domain names on the IP address | IP addresses | A records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 domain | 7,919,817 | 7,919,817 |
| 2 to 10 | 3,843,158 | 13,892,387 |
| 11 to 100 | 841,557 | 25,335,306 |
| 101 to 1,000 | 215,778 | 82,758,405 |
| 1,001 to 10,000 | 20,979 | 40,267,083 |
| 10,001 to 100,000 | 1,892 | 45,061,198 |
| over 100,000 | 263 | 251,574,720 |
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There are 466.8 million A records on the internet, pointing at 12.8 million different IPv4 addresses. 263 of those IP addresses have more than a hundred thousand domain names pointing at them each, and between them they hold 53.9% of every A record there is.
At the other end, 7.9 million IP addresses have exactly one domain name pointing at them, 61.7% of all of them.
Half the web's address records lead to a few hundred shared addresses, led by parking services, site builders and proxies, while most addresses hold a single domain.
Most domains have one IP address and no spare
| IPv4 addresses published | Domain names |
|---|---|
| 1 IP address | 166,409,314 |
| 2 IP addresses | 101,998,092 |
| 3 IP addresses | 10,330,542 |
| 4 IP addresses | 10,385,472 |
| 5 or more | 1,963,117 |
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57.2% of domains with an A record publish exactly one IPv4 address. If that address stops answering, DNS itself offers no second address to try.
| How far the IP addresses spread | Domain names |
|---|---|
| More than one IP address | 124,677,223 |
| More than one company | 2,312,651 |
| More than one network number | 2,877,041 |
| More than one country | 2,318,802 |
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Publishing several IP addresses is common, but they almost always belong to the same company. 0.8% of domains, 2,312,651, publish IP addresses belonging to more than one company, and, counted separately, 0.8% publish addresses in more than one country.
The chart's third row is a looser test, which is why it is larger. An autonomous system is one numbered piece of a network, and a company can hold several, so a domain with one address in AS16509 and another in AS14618 counts there while sitting entirely inside Amazon.
That does not mean the web has no redundancy. It sits inside the network: Cloudflare answers on the same IP address from every city it operates in, through anycast, one address announced from many locations at once. A domain behind it has one A record and hundreds of physical locations.
This section measures the bare domain name, example.com, and nothing below it. What the data can say about www is a separate finding: among domains that answer DNS but publish no IP address on the bare name, 11.4%, 5.1 million, do publish one on www. Those sites only work when the visitor types www.
Most domains rely on one address at one company, so whatever redundancy they have is what their network provides.
6.0% of domains point at an address that did not answer
| What the published IP address did | Domain names |
|---|---|
| Answered nothing before the deadline | 15,449,376 |
| Refused the connection | 1,384,497 |
| No route to the address | 378,935 |
| Closed the connection with no reply | 230,671 |
| Not in the 6.0%: stopped resolving before the fetch | 4,403,790 |
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Every domain in the first four rows resolved when we read DNS: ask for the name and you get an IP address back. We fetched each domain later, and the address is where it failed: we opened a connection and found nothing answering.
Two failures make up most of the figure. 15,449,376 domains publish an IP address that never answered at all, and 1,384,497 publish one that refused the connection. A timeout can be a firewall, a slow host or our own network on a bad day. A refused connection is an answer: something is at that IP address, it is reachable, and it is not serving this domain.
Some of these are stale A records: a line of DNS still giving directions to a machine that has moved or been switched off. A host is cancelled, a server is retired, a company folds, and the record goes on pointing at the address it was given.
The last row is not part of the 6.0%. 4,403,790 domains had an IP address when we read DNS and had stopped resolving by the time we fetched them, a few weeks later.
A domain that resolves is not always reachable: the DNS answer and the machine behind it can fall out of step.
IPv6 follows the network a domain sits on
| Network | Domains | Have IPv6 |
|---|---|---|
| Strato | 2,644,457 | 94.1% |
| Cloudflare | 42,376,874 | 76.3% |
| IONOS | 9,819,117 | 71.6% |
 One.com | 1,334,346 | 64.7% |
| Hostinger | 8,269,187 | 63.1% |
 Host Europe | 1,386,748 | 48.0% |
| REG.RU | 1,444,457 | 39.2% |
 Aruba | 1,372,745 | 31.1% |
| Hetzner Online | 5,280,154 | 26.4% |
| Akamai Cloud | 2,637,701 | 15.8% |
| Unified Layer | 1,435,227 | 1.0% |
| SEDO | 2,565,194 | 1.0% |
 Newfold Digital | 1,399,770 | 1.0% |
| GoDaddy | 1,953,119 | 0.9% |
 Network Solutions | 1,093,206 | 0.8% |
| Automattic | 1,681,243 | 0.7% |
| All-Inkl | 1,504,093 | 0.7% |
| Squarespace | 8,932,563 | 0.7% |
| Wix | 7,295,092 | 0.7% |
 XServer Cloud | 1,056,353 | 0.7% |
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IPv6 reaches 23.8% of resolving domains, and the spread behind that average is the finding. Among networks holding a million domains or more, IPv6 runs from 94.1% on Strato down to 0.7% on XServer Cloud, 134.4 to one. Of those networks, 7 are below 1%, and they hold 23.5 million domains between them.
The spread follows the network, not the type of site, which suggests the host's default does the work. The AI crawler report finds the same pattern in robots.txt, where one provider setting writes the rules for millions of sites whose owners never edited the file.
This chart counts by network, the owner of the address, so Cloudflare's row includes Shopify's stores and its IPv6 rate is lower than in the provider table above.
IPv6 varies far more between networks than the 23.8% average suggests, from nearly every domain on one network to almost none on another.
59.1% of domains with a known country point at an IP address registered in the United States
| Country | Domains | Serve a page |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 171,264,097 | 58.1% |
| Germany | 27,885,912 | 52.2% |
| Hong Kong | 10,269,839 | 52.0% |
| Canada | 9,240,366 | 69.7% |
| France | 8,560,556 | 70.6% |
| Netherlands | 6,548,835 | 69.1% |
| Japan | 6,372,880 | 66.3% |
| Russia | 5,382,131 | 70.8% |
| UK | 4,331,371 | 75.8% |
| China | 2,715,893 | 52.7% |
| Italy | 2,684,673 | 78.2% |
| Poland | 2,302,631 | 86.6% |
| Singapore | 2,288,732 | 80.9% |
| Cyprus | 2,246,727 | 69.9% |
| Australia | 2,134,434 | 75.4% |
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59.1% of the 289,757,409 domains whose IP address the registry places in a country have it registered in the United States, and 9.6% in Germany. No third country reaches four per cent.
That first figure is the one most likely to be repeated as "three in five websites are hosted in America", and it is not that. Two separate populations make the gap large enough to matter.
| Country | Domains | Not proxied or parked | Largest | Second | Third |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 171,264,097 | 93,089,531 | Cloudflare20.9% | GoDaddy parking (on AWS)13.0% | AWS9.8% |
| Germany | 27,885,912 | 25,237,254 | IONOS25.2% | Hetzner Online15.6% | Strato9.5% |
| Hong Kong | 10,269,839 | 10,225,516 | Power Line Datacenter10.5% | Alibaba10.5% | DXTL6.3% |
| Canada | 9,240,366 | 7,906,782 | Shopify (on Cloudflare)53.7% |  Team Internet14.2% | OVH11.1% |
| France | 8,560,556 | 8,558,577 | OVH44.0% | Hostinger10.6% | Host Europe10.2% |
| Netherlands | 6,548,835 | 6,535,977 |  Signet12.0% | Google9.4% |  Your Hosting7.1% |
| Japan | 6,372,880 | 6,160,935 | GMO Internet45.5% | XServer Cloud16.6% |  SAKURA Internet11.5% |
| Russia | 5,382,131 | 5,376,677 | REG.RU26.9% |  Beget12.9% |  DDoS-Guard10.4% |
| UK | 4,331,371 | 4,325,470 | IONOS13.9% |  20i10.6% |  Heart Internet5.6% |
| China | 2,715,893 | 2,715,666 | Alibaba45.7% |  China Telecom17.1% |  Tencent12.4% |
| Italy | 2,684,673 | 2,684,605 | Aruba51.1% |  Register20.0% |  Server Plan S.r.l.5.7% |
| Poland | 2,302,631 | 1,475,901 | Cloudflare36.0% |  Cyber_Folks10.7% |  home.pl9.1% |
| Singapore | 2,288,732 | 2,214,175 | AWS13.7% | GoDaddy13.4% | Hostinger11.3% |
| Cyprus | 2,246,727 | 2,233,965 | Hostinger99.2% | Cloudflare0.6% |  Cyta0.1% |
| Australia | 2,134,434 | 1,714,502 |  Dreamscape Networks22.3% | Cloudflare19.7% |  Synergy Wholesale18.4% |
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The first is the reverse proxy. A domain behind one is filed to whichever country the proxy registered the address block in, while the machine serving the page can be anywhere. 37,064,002 American domains are in that state, 21.6% of the country's total.
The second is names that are not websites. Parked inventory and aftermarket listings resolve into whichever country their parking company's block is registered in. 41,110,564 of the American total are those.
Take both out and 93,089,531 domains are left, 54.4% of what the country chart credits to the United States. That is the closest this data comes to a count of sites hosted there, and it is the "Not proxied or parked" column above. Across all fifteen countries that column adds up to 180,455,533.
The subtraction is not even. Germany keeps most of its domains, 25,237,254, because Germany is IONOS, Hetzner and Strato running their own machines for their own customers. The United States loses almost half.
Canada is a different case: over half its domains are Shopify, whose address block the registry files to Canada while the stores on it sell from everywhere. One company dominates two countries: Hostinger holds 99.2% of Cyprus and Aruba 51.1% of Italy. Neither says where those countries' websites live, only where one hosting company registered its addresses.
Where an address is registered says little about where a site is hosted: of the domains credited to the United States, 54.4% remain once proxies and parked names come out.
Who runs the DNS
The same DNS scan that shows where a domain is hosted also shows who answers for its name.
| DNS provider | Domains |
|---|---|
| GoDaddy | 53,913,594 |
| Cloudflare | 44,985,559 |
| Afternic aftermarket | 11,401,391 |
| Google Cloud DNS | 10,879,545 |
| Namecheap | 10,730,611 |
| IONOS | 8,464,806 |
| Hostinger | 8,302,950 |
| Wix | 6,789,008 |
| Alibaba | 5,408,938 |
| AWS Route 53 | 4,102,948 |
| share-dns.net | 3,906,521 |
| Alibaba Cloud DNS | 3,900,483 |
| Strato | 3,649,659 |
 NameBright | 3,537,272 |
| IBM NS1 | 3,328,033 |
| OVH | 3,074,435 |
 Spaceship | 2,953,016 |
| Squarespace | 2,867,019 |
| REG.RU | 2,537,038 |
| julydns.com | 2,256,703 |
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GoDaddy answers DNS for 53,913,594 domains and Cloudflare for 44,985,559. Ten companies answer for 49.9% of every domain that publishes a nameserver, against 48.3% of resolving domains for the ten largest hosting providers.
The two markets are about as concentrated at the top ten, but DNS is far more concentrated at the top two: GoDaddy and Cloudflare answer for 16.3% and 13.6% of every domain with a nameserver. DNS looks sticky: a site that changes host or builder often keeps the nameservers its registrar set on the day the name was bought.
Hosting is spread thinly by service, with no provider above 12.8%, but not by company: GoDaddy runs 16.9% of the web across five services, and two DNS providers each answer for more domains than the largest hosting provider holds.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the largest web host in the world? AWS is the largest host, with 20,981,382 domains once GoDaddy's, HugeDomains' and Vercel's services on its addresses are counted separately, serving a page on 46.4% of the ones with a crawl result. Cloudflare has more domains, 37,403,719, but it is a reverse proxy rather than a host: whatever is behind it is hosted somewhere DNS cannot see.
How many websites use Cloudflare? 37,403,719 domains, 12.8% of the domains that publish an IP address, point at Cloudflare, more than at any other provider. It serves a page on 80.0% of the ones with a crawl result.
What percentage of websites support IPv6 in 2026? 23.8% of domains that resolve publish an AAAA record, 69,736,003 of them. Almost all of those also publish an IPv4 address; only 1,773,477 domains are reachable over IPv6 alone.
Where are most websites hosted? 59.1% of the domains whose IP address the registry places in a country point at one registered in the United States, ahead of Germany at 9.6%. Holding the address is not hosting the site, though: 37,064,002 of the American total are behind a reverse proxy serving from an origin DNS cannot see, and 41,110,564 are parked or aftermarket names rather than websites. Removing both leaves 93,089,531 domains, the closest this data gets to sites hosted in the United States.
How many domains share one IP address? Most A records point at a shared address: 263 IP addresses with more than a hundred thousand domain names each hold 53.9% of every A record. At the other end, 61.7% of IPv4 addresses have exactly one domain name.
What is a stale A record? An A record that still points at an IP address after whatever was there has gone. 6.0% of resolving domains published an address that did not answer when we tried it. Most timed out, which can also be a firewall; 1,384,497 refused the connection outright, the clearest sign of a stale record.
Who is the largest DNS provider? GoDaddy, which answers DNS for 53,913,594 domains, 16.3% of every domain that publishes a nameserver. Cloudflare is second at 44,985,559.
Methodology and sources
The population. Every figure is a share of the 292,860,014 domain names that publish at least one IP address, through an A record or an AAAA record. DNS was read between 15 June and 31 August 2026, and each domain's addresses are taken at its latest scan, because 41.6% of the 10,655,480 domains scanned twice changed their address count between scans. That population is a subset of the 399,851,676 registered domains the domain registration report counts, from a separate pipeline, and the two agree on the resolving count to within 0.013%.
What counts as a domain name. A registration at the apex: two labels, or three where the middle one is an ICANN second level such as co.uk, or where a wildcard suffix such as *.np makes every second level a suffix. Hostnames below the apex are excluded. www was looked up only when the apex failed to resolve, so the www-only count is a floor and no "how often does www differ" rate is published.
Network, provider, autonomous system. A network is the company the address registry files a block to, a provider is the company whose service answers on it, and an autonomous system is one numbered piece of a network: Amazon announces AS16509 and AS14618, Cloudflare AS13335 and AS209242, so a ranking by autonomous system splits each of them in two, and every table here counts the company instead. Registry data comes from IPinfo, which updates daily and places an anycast address where its block is registered rather than where it answers. An A record shows the edge, never the origin: a site behind a proxy is credited to the proxy. Google's row mixes Google Cloud (AS396982, 3,324,117 domains, 60.8% of the row) with Google's own networks, and Microsoft's 1,252,352 domains are a fraction of the 14,168,244 for which Microsoft 365 is the MX; read every network figure as the addresses domains point at, not as cloud market share.
How the platforms were found. Every address block above a million domains was ranked and a sample of its domains fetched. Seven blocks answered with a product belonging to someone other than the block's owner: GoDaddy parking (3.33.130 and 15.197.148, its documented parking addresses), GoDaddy's aftermarket on Afternic (13.248.169 and 76.223.54), GoDaddy hosting (3.33.251 and 15.197.225), the GoDaddy Website Builder (13.248.243 and 76.223.105, identified by its Starfield generator tag), HugeDomains (13.223.25 and 54.243.117), Vercel (four ranges, every sample returning a Vercel server header) and Shopify (23.227.38, announced by Cloudflare). A domain in one of those blocks is counted under the platform; everything else stays with the address owner.
Serving rates. A domain serves when the crawler got a website; a parking or for-sale lander is classified as parked and does not count. Shares are of the 242,210,920 domains that gave an answer either way; 50,649,094 resolving domains carry no verdict at all (empty error, empty attempt history) and are shown as "No crawl result". A spot check of sixty of them found 37 serving a page, so the gap is in the crawl rather than dead infrastructure, and it is uneven, 2.6% of Wix's domains against 30.0% of IONOS's, which is why they are excluded rather than counted as failures.
DNS providers. Ranked by the registrable domain of the NS target, folded before the distinct count where one company answers on several domains (IONOS answers on four ui-dns domains for the same 8,464,946 names). Where a nameserver's zone names no responsible company, the row keeps the hostname. A nameserver shows who runs the DNS, never who owns the name.
Samples. The popularity bands are the Tranco list, 4,783,135 rows taken on the crawl infrastructure, each band excluding the ones above it; the sister reports use a list taken on a different day. The country subtraction removes domains behind a proxy with no platform identified and domains on a parking or aftermarket platform; a platform found on a proxy's own block stays in, which is why Canada's Shopify stores remain in its count.
Not measured, and sources. Response time was recorded for 4.09% of serving domains and dropped. Reverse DNS, hosting plan, server software and the physical location of an anycast address are outside what DNS and registry data can answer. Second-level suffixes come from the Public Suffix List, ICANN section; null MX is defined in RFC 7505; some country data elsewhere on this site is derived with MaxMind GeoLite2.