October 06, 2026
66 min read
We measured how much of 77 national namespaces depends on US-headquartered operators or US soil: per-domain web, mail and DNS for 65.5 million live websites, plus cloud regions, CDN points of presence, TLS certificates, ccTLD registries, routing, latency and 21,000 institutions. 43.9% of the live websites whose layers we could attribute have at least one layer run by a US-headquartered operator or sit on US soil, and the switching ran toward US operators: 2.8 mail moves onto a US-headquartered operator for every move off one, 2.4 for DNS. US soil and US ownership are different problems with different fixes. We end with a measured guide to who should move, where to, and who should not bother. For policymakers, registries, hosting providers and anyone running a website outside the US.
October 04, 2026
42 min read
A .ca domain needs a Canadian owner, but nothing requires its website, mail or DNS to be Canadian. We measured all three for 1.86 million live .ca websites, followed hosting from 2023 to 2026, ran about 6,800 traceroutes from Canadian vantage points, timed the front doors of the largest operators from Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, sampled .ca registrars and checked 989 government websites. Only 6.5% of .ca websites keep web, mail and DNS with Canadian operators and the website in Canada; 54.6% run all three on US-headquartered operators, more than Mexico, Australia or the UK. Physically, much of the .ca web answers from inside Canada; legally, four in five .ca websites have at least one layer run by a US company or hosted in the US. The 2025 tariff shock was followed by a small relative gain for Canadian hosting and no homecoming. For policymakers, registries, hosting providers and anyone running a Canadian domain.
September 23, 2026
34 min read
Data centers are fighting over power, and Northern Virginia is the prize. We located every address behind the website record of every registrable domain in 29 crawls, April 2023 to September 2026 — by cloud region tag, geofeed, geoIP and 213 speed-of-light RTT measurements — and mapped it to a metro and a grid operator. Northern Virginia serves 3.6% of the world's websites, more than any country except the United States and Germany, and one in five of those we can place in the US. Its share has not grown: it fell for live sites, while its biggest tenant became a domain-for-sale marketplace. The fastest-growing place on the map is no place: 47% of websites now answer from anycast and CDN front doors, up from 31%. For energy and policy reporters, utility and grid analysts, cloud-resilience engineers and Internet measurement researchers.
July 06, 2026
23 min read
We compared the website address of every domain that resolved in both April 2023 and June 2026 — 110.6 million survivors — and classified both endpoints by BGP network. 46.8% answer from the exact same IP three years later; 67.7% never left their provider. The biggest migration wasn't chosen by any webmaster: GoDaddy moved its 10-million-domain lander estate from Google Cloud to AWS anycast, and the parked web grew to 26.1% of all site records. Corrected September 23, 2026. For hosting strategists, registrars, measurement researchers, and anyone who thinks the cloud wars are moving the web.
June 27, 2026
23 min read
The first edition of the Internet Concentration Index: a synthesis of four full-corpus, typed-DNS censuses of the same ~3-billion-name dataset, measuring who controls the Internet's core layers one domain at a time. DNS, email, cloud hosting and the CDN/proxy edge each have a different owner — GoDaddy, Google, Amazon and Cloudflare — no single company controls all four, the enterprise giant everyone names (Microsoft) is nearly invisible by domain count, and 92.5% of delegated domains sit on a single point of failure. For policymakers, security teams, and anyone who has watched one outage take down half the web.
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.