dns-integrity · severity low

Nameserver resilience

Share of domains whose authoritative nameservers are all on a single provider.

Measured every Tuesday · last updated

How it is measured

Tier 0. NS lookup, map each host to a provider, count distinct providers. Denominator: any.

Why it matters

Single-provider DNS is a single point of total failure — when that provider has an outage the domain disappears entirely (web, mail, everything). Redundancy here looks present ("we have four nameservers") while all four share one fate.

Limits of this measurement

Low severity; single-provider is a reasonable choice for a small company, so this is context on concentration risk rather than a defect.

The base rate

Two independent populations. The global, domain-anchored figure is unbiased; the company-anchored figures are built by matching company names to domains and skew toward more digitally-mature firms. Both are published, so the gap is visible.

Global (all domains) 93.97% fail · n=15,007
multi-provider: 6.03%single provider: 93.97%
France companies 94.41% fail · n=841
multi-provider: 5.59%single provider: 94.41%
UK companies 98.04% fail · n=2,597
multi-provider: 1.96%single provider: 98.04%
Norway companies 97.25% fail · n=944
multi-provider: 2.75%single provider: 97.25%
multi-provider · 2.75%single provider · 97.25%

By company size band

Company-anchored cuts (national registries with a size proxy), split by size band. Right-hand figure is the share not meeting the control.

France
micron=212
multi-provider: 2.83%single provider: 97.17%
97.17%
smalln=245
multi-provider: 3.27%single provider: 96.73%
96.73%
mediumn=200
multi-provider: 4.5%single provider: 95.5%
95.5%
largen=184
multi-provider: 13.04%single provider: 86.96%
86.96%
UK
micron=231
multi-provider: 0.87%single provider: 99.13%
99.13%
smalln=954
multi-provider: 2.62%single provider: 97.38%
97.38%
medium/largen=1025
multi-provider: 1.85%single provider: 98.15%
98.15%
dormantn=195
multi-provider: 0.51%single provider: 99.49%
99.49%
no-accountsn=192
multi-provider: 2.08%single provider: 97.92%
97.92%
Norway
micron=266
multi-provider: 1.13%single provider: 98.87%
98.87%
smalln=242
multi-provider: 2.48%single provider: 97.52%
97.52%
mediumn=253
multi-provider: 2.37%single provider: 97.63%
97.63%
largen=183
multi-provider: 6.01%single provider: 93.99%
93.99%

Every segment

Pick one to see the citable answer for a company like yours, with its trend and methodology.

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Slices below 100 measured members are withheld rather than shown with a wide interval — an absent country or issuer means too little data, not zero failures. Licensed CC BY 4.0. Machine-readable data per segment: append .json or .csv to its URL.