Is Akamai or nic.ru more popular?

Akamai is used by more websites in our catalog: 4,760 use Akamai and 143 use nic.ru.

Does Akamai or nic.ru have higher-authority sites?

Akamai sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Akamai: 65, nic.ru: 61).

Is Akamai or nic.ru growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Akamai went from 0.73% to 0.54% of all tracked sites, while nic.ru went from 0.02% to 0.02%. nic.ru is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Akamai and nic.ru?

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

Where does this Akamai vs nic.ru 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 nic.ru — Site Stats Database

Akamai vs nic.ru

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	nic.ru
Websites	4,760	143
Market share	0.57%	0.02%
Share of top 10K sites	5.7%	0.00%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#16	#231

Median DR	65	61

Average DR	61	53

Median keywords	2,153	308

Median referring domains	2,631	3,330

Median domain age	25 yrs	19 yrs

Average domain age	22 yrs	18 yrs

Average monthly traffic	1,920,754	7,116

Combined monthly traffic	9,142,787,231	1,017,530

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

tass.com
LanguageLithuanian
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords25,468
Referring Domains33,916
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)300,247
Traffic Trend
Technologynic.ru
kalashnikovgroup.ru
Language
DR (Ahrefs)56
Total Keywords1,730
Referring Domains3,330
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)84,624
Traffic Trend
Technologynic.ru
rutube.ru
LanguageRussian
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords71,442
Referring Domains233,446
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)67,055
Traffic Trend
Technologynic.ru
ozon.ru
Language
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords89,518
Referring Domains98,973
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)52,667
Traffic Trend
Technologynic.ru
hudway.co
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)37
Total Keywords1,120
Referring Domains565
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)47,582
Traffic Trend
Technologynic.ru
forumspb.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords649
Referring Domains8,627
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)36,127
Traffic Trend
Technologynic.ru
ixbt.games
LanguageRussian
DR (Ahrefs)57
Total Keywords21,790
Referring Domains4,743
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)27,754
Traffic Trend
Technologynic.ru
bolshoi.ru
Language
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords672
Referring Domains7,289
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)25,808
Traffic Trend
Technologynic.ru
forumvostok.ru
Language
DR (Ahrefs)65
Total Keywords215
Referring Domains2,800
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)25,238
Traffic Trend
Technologynic.ru
kp.ru
LanguageRussian
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords1,352
Referring Domains77,244
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)22,093
Traffic Trend
Technologynic.ru