anchor.host vs NS1

NS1 is used by more websites in our catalog: 143 use anchor.host and 12,424 use NS1.

anchor.host and NS1 sites have a similar median Ahrefs Domain Rating.

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, anchor.host went from 0.01% to 0.02% of all tracked sites, while NS1 went from 1.4% to 1.4%. NS1 is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single DNS provider, so anchor.host and NS1 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.