Posts tagged "parking"

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July 23, 2026 22 min read

Who Moves the World's DNS: 15 Months of Delegation Flux, a One-Month Million-Domain Migration, and the Nameservers That Outlive Their Owners

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.

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July 11, 2026 17 min read

The Restless Aliases: the CNAME Layer re-crawled after 32 Days — 92.5% Held Still, 12.6 Million Rewired or Vanished, and the Biggest Moves Were Made by Platforms, Not People

Two CNAME-typed crawls of 1.9 billion hostnames, 32 days apart: 169 million cross-domain aliases followed by name. 7.5% of the alias layer rewires or disappears in one month, parking lost 1.54M aliases, one Chinese registrar generated 13% of all new aliases — and the three biggest 'migrations' were platforms re-pointing their own chains, dragging half a million customer domains along. For DNS operators, measurement researchers, and anyone who builds on someone else's CNAME.

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July 10, 2026 18 min read

The Parking Lot: We Measured the Parked Web Every Month for 38 Months — It Grew to One Domain in Four, Peaked Five Days After Its Business Model Died, and Has Been Shrinking Since

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 25.5% of all website records — 73.6 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. GoDaddy front doors hold three-quarters of the lot. For measurement researchers, registrars, security teams, and anyone who counts 'websites'.

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July 06, 2026 22 min read

Where the Web Moves: We Followed 110 Million Domains for 38 Months — Two-Thirds Never Left Their Host, and One in Four Domains Now Points at a Parking Lot

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 doubled to 24.8% of all site records. For hosting strategists, registrars, measurement researchers, and anyone who thinks the cloud wars are moving the web.

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