September 23, 2026
26 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 132 speed-of-light RTT measurements — and mapped it to a metro and a grid operator. Northern Virginia serves 3.5% 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.
September 22, 2026
35 min read
We counted every IPv4 address behind the website record of every registrable domain in 29 full crawls of the DomainsProject corpus, April 2023 to September 2026. The web grew 71% (169.3M to 289.7M websites); the addresses it answers from grew 16% (10.9M to 12.7M). Half of all websites now answer from just 1,025 addresses, down from 3,908, and two GoDaddy addresses alone serve 23.9 million. But the concentration at the top is the parking layer: the live web still needs ~17,700 addresses to reach half its sites, while its middle is thinning — its dedicated-address share fell by a quarter and half the live web now sits on 11 networks, not 20. The annual physical-layer companion to the Internet Concentration Index, for network operators, courts and regulators weighing IP blocking, privacy engineers, and Internet measurement researchers.
September 05, 2026
31 min read
We kept the exact TTL of every A record in 28 full crawls of the DomainsProject corpus, April 2023 to August 2026 — 43.6 billion DNS answers, 6.9 billion of them the address record of a registrable domain. The share of domains whose address expires in five minutes or less rose from 21.27% to 28.67%, and among live (non-parked) sites from 23.00% to 36.38%, almost all of it since March 2025, while the share at a day or more did not grow. Corrected September 23, 2026. But 60.8% of surviving domains publish the same value 40 months later: GoDaddy's domaincontrol.com (mode 600) and Cloudflare (mode 300, 89% of its zones) set the number for a third of the web, and Cloudflare alone accounts for 47% of every domain at five minutes or less. For DNS and platform operators, SRE and incident-response teams, and Internet measurement researchers.
August 20, 2026
39 min read
We followed the MX record of every apex domain across eleven full crawls, April 2025 - August 2026 (421.9 million apexes). 70.8% of mail-capable domains sit on the bit-identical MX record set sixteen months later; provider switching runs under 1% a month. Google Workspace's lead over Microsoft 365 widened at every single pass (1.28 to 1.43 by domain count) - yet direct switching between the two is a wash; the gap is made by new domains, which arrive 2.3-to-1 for Google, while Microsoft wins the migrations out of self-hosting. Null MX quadrupled from 3.4M to 13.4M domains, and 77% of it is one aftermarket platform's zone template. For email and security teams, hosting providers, and Internet measurement researchers.
July 23, 2026
22 min read
We followed the NS delegation of every apex domain across nine full crawls, April 2025 - July 2026 (404 million apexes). 61% of the web kept the exact same nameservers for fifteen months; operator switching runs at 2.3% a month; and the biggest moves were corporate re-plumbs - GoDaddy consolidating 2.1 million NameFind domains onto Afternic, Namecheap shifting 1.1 million parked names to an undocumented platform in one month. Meanwhile 339,000 domains still delegate to the retired Dan.com. For DNS operators, security teams, and Internet measurement researchers.
July 18, 2026
21 min read
We re-classified 18 billion DNS TXT queries across ten full crawls (April 2025 - July 2026) and turned the SaaS verification-token census into a time series. Anthropic tokens grew 625x to 131,812 apexes. The Dan.com shutdown moved five million marketplace tokens. Microsoft 365's domain share is flat while Google's climbs. And across every major vendor, only 19-29% of token disappearances are deliberate cleanup - the rest is domain death. For SaaS analysts, security teams, and Internet measurement researchers.
July 10, 2026
19 min read
26 monthly DNS snapshots, April 2023 to June 2026: domains pointing at parking, for-sale, expiry and registrar-default landers grew from 16.0% to a peak of 26.9% of all website records in January–February 2026 — 73.4 million domains — then began the first sustained decline on record, in the exact quarter Google switched off the parking ad economy and Bodis shut down. Corrected September 23, 2026. GoDaddy front doors hold three-quarters of the lot. For measurement researchers, registrars, security teams, and anyone who counts 'websites'.
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.
July 02, 2026
19 min read
We followed every one of the 181.1 million domains that resolved in April 2023 across 26 DNS snapshots to June 2026, and did the same for a 232.0-million-domain 2025 cohort. The resolving web loses 13-16% of itself every year — a half-life of roughly five years — but the deaths are wildly unequal: Freenom's five TLDs went 99% extinct in the largest die-off ever recorded in the DNS, the cheap-promo gTLDs lose up to 95% of their web in three years, and Germany's .de keeps 84% alive. For registrars, investors, security teams, and anyone who links to anything.
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.