Welcome to the ICANN DNS Magnitude statistics page

When estimating domain popularity, simple counting measurements, such as the volume of queries, do not necessarily reflect the popularity of a domain as a whole.

Almost all services on today’s internet depend on DNS, as usage of services under a domain instigates DNS traffic to that domain. The number of unique networks that send DNS requests hence reflects the overall popularity of the domain’s services. This DNS-based metric “DNS Magnitude” can be used for estimating the popularity of a domain.

We apply this ranking to traffic observed at L-root, and classify top-level domains by their delegation status.

The table below shows query statistics for names under top-level domains that conform to the label rules in RFC1035: “They must start with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior characters only letters, digits, and hyphen. ” In addition, the length of the label must be at least two characters.

The query statistics span a single UTC day. Statistics are generated with a six day delay. All query names are aggregated by their top-level domain and source addresses are aggregated by /24 (for IPv4) and /48 (for IPv6) networks. The magnitude value is the natural logarithm of the unique sources observed for a top-level domain, divided by the natural logarithm of all unique sources, multiplied by 10 to get a value between 1 and 10.

A high magnitude value indicates that a top-level domain is queried for by a large number of networks.

The table is limited to the top 2000 highest daily ranked domains. If a string was previously ranked lower than position 2000, a “-” is shown.

The table contains the following columns:

• “Magnitude”: The DNS Magnitude value for this top-level domain.
• “Top-Level Domain”: The top-level domain observed in a DNS query.
• “Status”: The status of the top-level domain, i.e. it is delegated in the root zone, reserved, or non-existent.
• “Daily Rank”: The ranking position, ordered by decreasing magnitude value.
• “Weekly Rank”: The ranking position over the last 7 days.
• “Monthly Rank”: The ranking position over the last 30 days.
• “Quarterly Rank”: The ranking position over the last 90 days.
• “Coverage”: The percentage of all observed networks that asked for this top-level domain.
• “Unique Sources”: The number of unique networks.
• “Queries Per Thousand”: The number of queries (per thousand) for this top-level domain.
• “Query Volume”: The number of queries observed for this top-level domain.
• “Avg query/source”: The average number of queries send per source network.

Columns can be sorted by clicking on the top row. The colored arrows indicate the direction of change in ranking relative to the longer period.

Please contact octo@icann.org for any questions, suggestions or reports.

DNS Statistics for Sunday, 07 June 2026
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