June 26, 2026
21 min read
We replayed 26 monthly snapshots of where the world's domains resolve — 38 months of A-record and geoIP data, Apr 2023 to Jun 2026 — counted one domain one vote across tens of millions of apexes per month. The expected story was de-Americanization and cloud consolidation. The data tells a stranger one: the geographic map barely moved. The United States hosted 45.9% of resolving domains in 2023 and 45.2% in 2026. The only line that climbed is the anycast bucket that hides where a domain truly lives, and the only provider that genuinely surged is Amazon, which tripled its footprint while its share of cloud spending fell. This is the first longitudinal post in the series.
June 23, 2026
18 min read
We pointed an NS-typed crawl at 301 million registry domains to ask who actually answers the first question of every web request. 277.6 million are delegated, and the answer is concentrated: registrar-bundled DNS runs nearly half the delegated web, GoDaddy leads at 18.9% as the default nobody chose, and Cloudflare follows at 13.9% as the operator everybody migrates to — more than every hyperscaler cloud combined. Beneath the leaderboard sits a quieter finding: 92.5% of delegated domains depend on a single DNS organization with no independent backup. Built from 151 million-plus apex NS records.
June 20, 2026
24 min read
A CNAME record is a forwarding address — it names who actually serves a hostname. We pointed a CNAME-typed crawl at 1.86 billion names and found 297 million aliases. Of the 169 million that point outward, 41% land on site builders and managed hosts, 20% on domain-parking lots, and only 6% on CDNs — because Cloudflare, which fronts a quarter of the web, flattens its CNAMEs into A/AAAA and barely appears. The alias map is a rental map: the web is served by a short list of platforms, and the record type you query decides which half you can see.
June 13, 2026
18 min read
On 28 March 2026 IPv6 crossed half of Google's traffic — the eyeball Internet reached the majority. We pointed an AAAA-typed crawl at 315 million registry domains to measure the other half of the question, and the content Internet looks nothing like it: only 20.4% of domains publish any IPv6 address, Cloudflare alone generates 44.7% of it, and 45% of all domain IPv6 is a CDN edge in front of an origin that may still be IPv4-only. Strip the CDNs and origin-native IPv6 falls to 11%. This is server-side IPv6, measured from 1.88 billion DNS answers.