nic.ru vs NS1

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

nic.ru sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (nic.ru: 61, NS1: 19).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, nic.ru went from 0.02% 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 nic.ru 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.