NS1 vs whois.com

NS1 is used by more websites in our catalog: 12,424 use NS1 and 176 use whois.com.

NS1 sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (NS1: 19, whois.com: 15).

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

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