anchor.host vs Google Cloud DNS

Google Cloud DNS is used by more websites in our catalog: 143 use anchor.host and 30,888 use Google Cloud DNS.

anchor.host sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (anchor.host: 19, Google Cloud DNS: 13).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, anchor.host went from 0.01% to 0.02% of all tracked sites, while Google Cloud DNS went from 4.1% to 3.5%. anchor.host is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single DNS provider, so anchor.host and Google Cloud DNS are mutually exclusive.

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.