Is Akamai or dotster.com more popular?

Akamai is used by more websites in our catalog: 4,760 use Akamai and 536 use dotster.com.

Does Akamai or dotster.com have higher-authority sites?

Akamai sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Akamai: 65, dotster.com: 29).

Is Akamai or dotster.com growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Akamai went from 0.73% to 0.54% of all tracked sites, while dotster.com went from 0.06% to 0.06%. dotster.com is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Akamai and dotster.com?

No. A site runs a single DNS provider, so Akamai and dotster.com are mutually exclusive.

Where does this Akamai vs dotster.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.

Akamai vs dotster.com — Site Stats Database

Akamai vs dotster.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	Akamai	dotster.com
Websites	4,760	536
Market share	0.57%	0.06%
Share of top 10K sites	5.7%	0.02%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#16	#81

Median DR	65	29

Average DR	61	30

Median keywords	2,153	1,008

Median referring domains	2,631	355

Median domain age	25 yrs	22 yrs

Average domain age	22 yrs	20 yrs

Average monthly traffic	1,920,754	35,623

Combined monthly traffic	9,142,787,231	19,093,737

weather.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,156,559
Referring Domains130,903
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)560,457,254
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAkamai
mayoclinic.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords4,487,264
Referring Domains408,066
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)452,253,303
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAkamai
accuweather.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,212,850
Referring Domains102,315
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)437,528,273
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAkamai
tiktok.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)97
Total Keywords58,180,430
Referring Domains3,979,372
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)383,786,862
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAkamai
homedepot.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords7,651,168
Referring Domains156,486
Domain Age33 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)362,342,941
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAkamai
adobe.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)96
Total Keywords4,590,632
Referring Domains1,640,623
Domain Age39 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)293,123,914
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAkamai
nba.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords758,560
Referring Domains186,338
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)239,244,892
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAkamai
weather.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords1,098,961
Referring Domains132,221
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)221,232,646
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAkamai
target.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords10,174,393
Referring Domains208,795
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)204,573,119
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAkamai
lowes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)88
Total Keywords4,826,414
Referring Domains158,334
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)135,785,869
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAkamai

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
weather.com	English	90	1,156,559	130,903	31 yrs	560,457,254		Akamai

visitmammoth.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords13,519
Referring Domains3,005
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,076,378
Traffic Trend
Technologydotster.com
columbiasurgery.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords48,201
Referring Domains5,445
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,059,371
Traffic Trend
Technologydotster.com
egyptianmuseum.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)60
Total Keywords10,479
Referring Domains3,525
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)727,166
Traffic Trend
Technologydotster.com
aruplab.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)65
Total Keywords35,636
Referring Domains3,486
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)471,515
Traffic Trend
Technologydotster.com
parktool.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords16,883
Referring Domains7,495
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)401,205
Traffic Trend
Technologydotster.com
dailytarheel.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords15,544
Referring Domains8,913
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)340,233
Traffic Trend
Technologydotster.com
armacostlighting.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)16
Total Keywords9,489
Referring Domains391
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)300,982
Traffic Trend
Technologydotster.com
kckschools.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)43
Total Keywords3,573
Referring Domains862
Domain Age4 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)300,253
Traffic Trend
Technologydotster.com
gokartsusa.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)35
Total Keywords28,767
Referring Domains2,130
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)282,983
Traffic Trend
Technologydotster.com
sarodeo.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)62
Total Keywords6,166
Referring Domains1,948
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)263,807
Traffic Trend
Technologydotster.com