Infrastructure Updated July 2026 · refreshed monthly

Who runs DNS for Australia's domains.

Hosting and DNS have come apart. Here's who actually answers DNS for the namespace, ranked by the nameservers serving each .au domain.

GoDaddy (domaincontrol)

21.8%

#1 · 833,741

Cloudflare

8.3%

#2 · 319,225

Domains measured

3,827,957

with resolvable NS

DNS

Authoritative DNS operators

GoDaddy runs DNS for 21.8% of the namespace via domaincontrol.com — where a domain is hosted and who answers DNS for it have come apart.

Historical trend

Domains on GoDaddy DNS over time

This edition is the baseline. Month-over-month history builds from here and is available to subscribers.

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Method. Figures are the latest available snapshot (July 2026), refreshed each edition. Registry figures come from a full RDAP sweep of the registered .au universe (3,798,553 names); infrastructure figures (hosting, email, DNS, builders, authentication) come from a DNS-enrichment sweep and use heuristic provider labels (ASN / MX / nameserver patterns), so treat them as indicative shares.

Aggregate, domain-level data only — no registrant personal information. Not an auDA publication.