2 categories · RankedClouDNS
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed DNS | Network and edge | 0% | 10 of 78 | 17% | 18 | accepted challenger | |
| DNS filtering | Network and edge | 0% | 49 of 94 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by DNSFilter at 59% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated ClouDNS across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“whereas ClouDNS fits when managed multi-zone authority must include DNSSEC plus controlled change windows for secondary setups” Muse Glimmer 30B · Managed DNS · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Budget‑oriented options like ClouDNS provide solid anycast performance and DDoS protection at a lower price point.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed DNS · comparative prompt · alternative
“a good budget-friendly managed DNS option if you want managed DNS with Anycast, DDoS protection, and GeoDNS features” Perplexity Sonar · Managed DNS · budget prompt · alternative
“ClouDNS provides excellent value with its low-cost paid tier starting at just $2.95/month” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Managed DNS · budget prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“reviews frequently highlight a "poor" customer support experience and a complex, difficult-to-navigate user interface” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Managed DNS · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid for mid-sized: Niche like ClouDNS (budget anycast)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Managed DNS · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“Free tiers available, but query-based billing kicks in quickly; less performant than Cloudflare.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Managed DNS · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as ClouDNS, over the 63 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ClouDNS was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 63 of the 63 answers that named ClouDNS and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
214 of the 248 domain citations in answers naming ClouDNS came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
cloudns.net is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, ClouDNS takes 0% of first choices and Cloudflare DNS takes 84%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,000 a month (“cloudns”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 7 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 82,467 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 10,113 · 511 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 7,520
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 63 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 63 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 570 | 18 | 2026-09-28 | CDN | |
| News or press | 305 | 5 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Case study | 30 | undated | CDN | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 10 | 3 | 2026-08-21 | ||
| Comparison | 2 | 2 | 2026-07-24 | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29554 news or press
- 2026-09-28Subdomain takeover what it is and how to prevent it blog
- 2026-09-15549 news or press
- 2026-09-15Inside our uptime monitoring data 300 million checks in one month blog
- 2026-09-04Zone transfer zone file domain namespace blog
- 2026-09-01544 news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cloudns.net exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.
Follow ClouDNS
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
ClouDNS is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- ClouDNS provides fast and secure Free DNS Hosting & Premium DNS Hosting with Global Anycast DNS Network.
- For
- businesses
- Price stated
- Free Forever; Premium DNS Starting from: $2.95/month; DDoS Protected DNS Starting from: $5.95/month; GeoDNS Starting from: $9.95/month cloudns.net
- Starting price
- Free Forever cloudns.net
- Free plan or trial
- Free Forever cloudns.net
- Hosting
- EuropeNorth and South AmericaAsiaAustraliaNorth AmericaSouth AmericaAfrica
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, customers
What ClouDNS's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: cloudns.net, cloudns.net/features, cloudns.net/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when ClouDNS's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as ClouDNS, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for ClouDNS by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where ClouDNS is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name ClouDNS, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.