dotster.com vs NS1

NS1 is used by more websites in our catalog: 536 use dotster.com and 12,424 use NS1.

dotster.com sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (dotster.com: 29, NS1: 19).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, dotster.com went from 0.06% to 0.06% 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 dotster.com 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.