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.
As the comments here suggest, this list may be more indicative of some developer-introduced application behaviour, e.g., gratuitous DNS lookups, than "popularity".
I don't see how it would be possible to produce this table under Quad9's privacy policy. Nothing in their privacy policy says that they maintain logs that would enable them to count queries by label. Can anyone explain?
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 malware - but it still seems surprising.
It's just kind of shocking to see Slack, Zoom, LinkedIn, and even DropBox, Roku, and Yandex much higher up.
Isn't part of the reasons to run a public DNS to sell these hard earned info for profit to marketers etc but they just release publicly? Of course this is just the tip of the iceberg of the information they gather.
Really interesting to know though.
Some just look way high up and could mean buggy implementation without proper cache usage or persistently banging the domain.
The Cloudflare Radar page is probably a more representative sample: https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains
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...
As the comments here suggest, this list may be more indicative of some developer-introduced application behaviour, e.g., gratuitous DNS lookups, than "popularity".
What’s up with wvdbozpfc.com?
There’s a bunch of random looking domain names: cmidphnvq.com, rpqihexdb.com, facebook.com. I’d guess they for advertising?
Seems like it'd be a good addition to the Tranco list: https://tranco-list.eu/
I don't see how it would be possible to produce this table under Quad9's privacy policy. Nothing in their privacy policy says that they maintain logs that would enable them to count queries by label. Can anyone explain?
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 malware - but it still seems surprising.
It's just kind of shocking to see Slack, Zoom, LinkedIn, and even DropBox, Roku, and Yandex much higher up.
I expected to see porn in the list.
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...
Who are looking up PTR records?
54.in-addr.arpa looks to be Amazon's range and there are several others.
shodan.io > gmail.com on 6/1 ???
Isn't part of the reasons to run a public DNS to sell these hard earned info for profit to marketers etc but they just release publicly? Of course this is just the tip of the iceberg of the information they gather.
Really interesting to know though.
Some just look way high up and could mean buggy implementation without proper cache usage or persistently banging the domain.
example.com #17 ?
Has anyone used Quad9 and also NextDNS and have thoughts on how they compare?
> https://github.com/Quad9DNS/quad9-domains-top500/blob/main/t...
{"position": 5, "domain_name": "kxulsrwcq.com", "date": "2025-07-10"}
What the
https://www.ipaddress.com/website/kxulsrwcq.com/
> Safety/Trust: Unknown