Is Foundation DNS or NS1 more popular?

NS1 is used by more websites in our catalog: 568 use Foundation DNS and 12,424 use NS1.

Does Foundation DNS or NS1 have higher-authority sites?

Foundation DNS sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Foundation DNS: 64, NS1: 19).

Is Foundation DNS or NS1 growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Foundation DNS went from 0.09% to 0.06% of all tracked sites, while NS1 went from 1.4% to 1.4%. NS1 is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Foundation DNS and NS1?

No. A site runs a single DNS provider, so Foundation DNS and NS1 are mutually exclusive.

Where does this Foundation DNS vs NS1 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.

Foundation DNS vs NS1 — Site Stats Database

Foundation DNS vs NS1

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	Foundation DNS	NS1
Websites	568	12,424
Market share	0.07%	1.5%
Share of top 10K sites	0.89%	1.9%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#76	#11

Median DR	64	19

Average DR	61	25

Median keywords	4,396	650

Median referring domains	2,579	153

Median domain age	23 yrs	9 yrs

Average domain age	21 yrs	11 yrs

Average monthly traffic	2,163,402	424,078

Combined monthly traffic	1,228,812,188	5,268,742,964

allrecipes.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords3,491,845
Referring Domains151,904
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)166,334,891
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFoundation DNS
people.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords3,306,939
Referring Domains249,058
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)120,641,412
Traffic Trend
Technology
seriouseats.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords1,719,658
Referring Domains115,325
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)67,651,798
Traffic Trend
Technology
investopedia.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords2,098,866
Referring Domains406,047
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)66,831,883
Traffic Trend
Technology
kayak.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)87
Total Keywords2,410,381
Referring Domains65,916
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)61,496,142
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFoundation DNS
simplyrecipes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords992,573
Referring Domains70,052
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)37,946,046
Traffic Trend
Technology
verywellhealth.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords2,792,245
Referring Domains157,167
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)32,883,437
Traffic Trend
Technology
groupon.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords821,862
Referring Domains61,566
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)32,266,779
Traffic Trend
Technology
southernliving.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords2,110,038
Referring Domains83,089
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)30,390,710
Traffic Trend
Technology
thespruce.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords2,309,818
Referring Domains199,858
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)30,091,273
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
allrecipes.com		89	3,491,845	151,904	27 yrs	166,334,891		Foundation DNS

yelp.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords34,240,481
Referring Domains773,122
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,590,167,976
Traffic Trend
TechnologyNS1
spotify.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)95
Total Keywords7,485,298
Referring Domains1,649,815
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)505,668,332
Traffic Trend
Technology
timeanddate.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords1,349,121
Referring Domains155,919
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)330,608,420
Traffic Trend
Technology
ebay.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords31,445,213
Referring Domains435,246
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)278,324,222
Traffic Trend
TechnologyNS1
linkedin.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)99
Total Keywords15,959,103
Referring Domains14,522,527
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)273,217,491
Traffic Trend
Technology
expedia.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords4,797,516
Referring Domains112,144
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)208,730,561
Traffic Trend
Technology
carfax.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,945,867
Referring Domains47,295
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)125,863,196
Traffic Trend
Technology
usatoday.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords5,248,227
Referring Domains596,283
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)110,399,781
Traffic Trend
Technology
hotels.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)87
Total Keywords2,438,674
Referring Domains58,009
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)107,434,804
Traffic Trend
Technology
cnbc.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords1,828,668
Referring Domains463,774
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)94,323,732
Traffic Trend
TechnologyNS1