AWS Route 53 vs whois.com

AWS Route 53 is used by more websites in our catalog: 56,191 use AWS Route 53 and 176 use whois.com.

AWS Route 53 sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (AWS Route 53: 51, whois.com: 15).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, AWS Route 53 went from 7.9% to 6.4% of all tracked sites, while whois.com went from 0.02% to 0.02%. whois.com is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single DNS provider, so AWS Route 53 and whois.com 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.