Is ac.uk or hover.com more popular?

hover.com is used by more websites in our catalog: 164 use ac.uk and 2,850 use hover.com.

Does ac.uk or hover.com have higher-authority sites?

ac.uk sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (ac.uk: 74, hover.com: 26).

Is ac.uk or hover.com growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, ac.uk went from 0.03% to 0.02% of all tracked sites, while hover.com went from 0.35% to 0.32%. ac.uk is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both ac.uk and hover.com?

No. A site runs a single DNS provider, so ac.uk and hover.com are mutually exclusive.

Where does this ac.uk vs hover.com data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.

ac.uk vs hover.com — Site Stats Database

ac.uk vs hover.com

A side-by-side comparison of two dns providers, based on the 840,922 DNS Provider sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	ac.uk	hover.com
Websites	164	2,850
Market share	0.02%	0.34%
Share of top 10K sites	0.08%	0.12%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#205	#22

Median DR	74	26

Average DR	71	27

Median keywords	4,454	915

Median referring domains	6,967	286

Median domain age	30 yrs	14 yrs

Average domain age	27 yrs	15 yrs

Average monthly traffic	224,079	35,835

Combined monthly traffic	36,748,893	102,130,922

columbia.edu
Language
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords761,153
Referring Domains274,583
Domain Age41 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)12,983,734
Traffic Trend
Technologyac.uk
ox.ac.uk
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords293,969
Referring Domains241,652
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,502,605
Traffic Trend
Technologyac.uk
st-andrews.ac.uk
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords52,618
Referring Domains42,437
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,825,038
Traffic Trend
Technology
mathcentre.ac.uk
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)52
Total Keywords35,704
Referring Domains2,040
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,395,992
Traffic Trend
Technology
open.edu
Language
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords147,757
Referring Domains32,218
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,383,417
Traffic Trend
Technologyac.uk
ed.ac.uk
Language
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords120,839
Referring Domains104,521
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,217,056
Traffic Trend
Technologyac.uk
olemiss.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords53,128
Referring Domains29,130
Domain Age37 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,114,931
Traffic Trend
Technology
ucl.ac.uk
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords137,041
Referring Domains130,914
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,094,211
Traffic Trend
Technologyac.uk
yourgenome.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords32,259
Referring Domains8,119
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)928,859
Traffic Trend
Technology
sussex.ac.uk
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords35,246
Referring Domains33,657
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)597,165
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
columbia.edu		91	761,153	274,583	41 yrs	12,983,734		ac.uk

wheelofnames.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords7,154
Referring Domains7,196
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,845,756
Traffic Trend
Technologyhover.com
animaldiversity.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords244,508
Referring Domains10,855
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,968,118
Traffic Trend
Technology
truity.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords52,808
Referring Domains10,759
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,854,337
Traffic Trend
Technology
goodgoodgood.co
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords78,662
Referring Domains5,876
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,575,727
Traffic Trend
Technology
animalfoundation.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords18,871
Referring Domains2,545
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,797,801
Traffic Trend
Technology
zachmanson.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords760
Referring Domains469
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,256,341
Traffic Trend
Technology
aquaticarts.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)54
Total Keywords33,524
Referring Domains1,390
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,252,798
Traffic Trend
Technology
sabr.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords67,693
Referring Domains11,141
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,235,923
Traffic Trend
Technologyhover.com
steaknshake.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)65
Total Keywords23,107
Referring Domains5,313
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,163,050
Traffic Trend
Technology
wsucougars.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords18,097
Referring Domains4,835
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,098,922
Traffic Trend
Technology