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Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day

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Post by doubleorseven »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #50

It's quite interesting to me that ChatGPT is in the 200s and 300s. By almost every metric this is one of the 10 busiest websites, and some sources are already putting it in the top 5. Are they just disproportionately not using Quad9? I understand that there's a lot of overlap with Google having several spots in the top 50 itself, several being infrastructure like cloudflare and akamai, and several others being malwar…

i also looked it up. it feels like up until ~200 those are all just chatty apps on our computers talking with the mother ship

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

GCUMstlyHarmls wrote: post #33

transmissionbt.com (A bittorrent client for macOS) is out ranking youtube, wikipedia, github, etc. Is transmission that popular? I assume its the auto-updater? Seems insane. https://github.com/Quad9DNS/quad9-domains-top500/blob/dfd513...

No JS:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Quad9DNS/quad9-domains-top...

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Post by ricardbejarano »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #84
landl0rd wrote: post #42

The Cloudflare Radar page is probably a more representative sample: https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains

Why samsung.com is tagged "Home & Gardening" is a mystery :)

Appliances I guess

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Post by natebc »

staplers wrote: post #47
Tijdreiziger wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The average burglar probably isn’t cross-referencing DNS statistics.

Yes but I don't think the average Quad9 user is worried about being tracked by average burglars.. more like advanced syndicates and nation states.

You think the average quad9 user is being tracked by advanced syndicates and nation states?

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Post by greyface- »

natebc wrote: post #86
staplers wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes but I don't think the average Quad9 user is worried about being tracked by average burglars.. more like advanced syndicates and nation states.

You think the average quad9 user is being tracked by advanced syndicates and nation states?

Such surveillance is often done on a dragnet basis, so, yes.

Re: Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

staplers wrote: post #47
Tijdreiziger wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The average burglar probably isn’t cross-referencing DNS statistics.

Yes but I don't think the average Quad9 user is worried about being tracked by average burglars.. more like advanced syndicates and nation states.

Huh? The average Quad9 user is probably a tech-savvy person who cares about online privacy and/or malware protection (Quad9 blocks known malicious domains).

Re: Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day

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Post by angott »

trutz wrote: post #41

What is amazon.dev? Does not resolve for me. {"position": 127, "domain_name": "amazon.dev", "date": "2025-07-10"} Source: https://github.com/Quad9DNS/quad9-domains-top500/blob/main/t...

I’m not entirely sure what it is, but my Alexa devices hit subdomains within it very frequently based on my local DNS history. That’s probably why it made the top of the list.

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Post by mccoyc »

mekster wrote: post #75

Who are looking up PTR records? 54.in-addr.arpa looks to be Amazon's range and there are several others.

It's probably a lot of automated tooling/monitoring infrastructure that's doing reverse resolution of IPs to get hostnames.

Edit: I've found that sometimes they're pretty poor at caching responses so you end up with a lot of these requests.

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