Research
Original findings from the dns.pizza dataset — the DNS, email-authentication and security checks we run continuously across the world's most-visited domains. A new report every two weeks, each with its methodology and downloadable data, free to cite (CC BY 4.0).
September 2, 2026
Updated dailyBorn Yesterday: what happens to a domain in its first day
A living report from dns.pizza's daily zone census: how many domains appear in and leave the gTLD zones each day, what fraction have a real website by the end of day one, what the live ones are about, which TLDs and nameserver providers carry the most brand-abuse signals — refreshed every day from the newest census.
Read the report →September 1, 2026
2 providers: 46.2%Who Runs the Web's Mail 2026: two companies receive 46.2% of the top domains' email
71,427 domains' MX records classified by provider: Google (28.4%) and Microsoft (17.9%) receive the mail of 46.2% of the web's top domains, 17.6% still run mail under their own name — 83.1% in .ir — and 27.2% of the top 100,000 publish no MX record at all.
Read the report →August 15, 2026
3 CAs sign 71.5%Certificate Authority Market Share 2026: three CAs sign 71.5% of the web's top domains
57,732 certificates read across the Tranco top 100,000: Google Trust Services (31.8%) and Let's Encrypt (28.8%) alone issue six in ten, Amazon makes it 71.5%, and 62.4% of the web already runs on 90-day certificates — while the top 1,000 still buys DigiCert (20.6%) and only 42.4% of them are short-lived.
Read the report →August 1, 2026
Only 8.2% validateThe State of DNSSEC 2026: the security feature the web quietly refused to deploy
96,917 domains validated: only 8.2% have a DNSSEC chain a resolver can verify, 25.5% of the zones that did sign never delegated a DS record, and registry policy explains the rest — .nl reaches 52.1% where .com manages 6.8%.
Read the report →July 17, 2026
Top-1k median: 2005The Oldest Domains on the Internet: a census of 85,887 analyzed domains
85,887 domains dated: the median top-1,000 domain was registered in 2005 — 7 years older than the mid-tail — 17.7% of the 1985–1995 cohort still sits in today's top 10,000, and 36.4% of the pre-2000 web lives at just three registrars.
Read the report →July 12, 2026
Being re-measuredThe State of DMARC 2026: adoption across the top 100,000 domains
Correction in progress: a resolver fault undercounted records and we're re-measuring. As originally published — 78,743 domains measured: 39.7% publish a DMARC record, only 25.1% enforce one.
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