Every category where a model named DNS Made Easy for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Managed DNS	Network and edge	7%	2 of 78	0%	14	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for DNS Made Easy yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated DNS Made Easy across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	2	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	1	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	1	2

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct10 labels4

Paraphrase6 labelsNone

Comparative10 labelsNone

Budget-constrained6 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative37 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“DNS Made Easy and Vercara/Neustar are the most frequently cited mid-market picks” Muse Glimmer 30B · Managed DNS · direct prompt · first choice

“the best all-around managed DNS choice is usually DNS Made Easy” Perplexity Sonar · Managed DNS · direct prompt · first choice

“DNS Made Easy is the strongest choice” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed DNS · direct prompt · first choice

“Cloudflare (Business/Enterprise), DNS Made Easy, UltraDNS | Balanced cost/features, no cloud lock-in” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Managed DNS · scale 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as DNS Made Easy, over the 37 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DNS Made Easy was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare DNS32 of 3724Compare →

Amazon Route 5324 of 371Compare →

Google Cloud DNS15 of 370Not among the top eight

ClouDNS11 of 371Not among the top eight

Akamai Edge DNS10 of 370Compare →

NS19 of 370Not among the top eight

Azure DNS8 of 370Not among the top eight

UltraDNS8 of 370Not among the top eight

IBM NS1 Connect7 of 370Not among the top eight

Dyn5 of 370Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named DNS Made Easy. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 36 of the 37 answers that named DNS Made Easy and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com21

ioriver.io21

sourceforge.net19

slashdot.org14

zipdo.co14

logicmonitor.com13

peerspot.com13

us.fitgap.com12

quicksprout.com10

cloudflare.com9

146 of the 146 domain citations in answers naming DNS Made Easy came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

ioriver.io/blog/top-dns-providers20

logicmonitor.com/deep-dive/dns-monitoring/managed-dns13

peerspot.com/categories/managed-dns10

quicksprout.com/best-dns-hosting-providers10

sourceforge.net/software/managed-dns10

us.fitgap.com/search/managed-dns-providers-software/enterprise10

zipdo.co/service/dns-management10

g2.com/categories/managed-dns-solutions8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

dnsmadeeasy.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, DNS Made Easy takes 7% of first choices and Cloudflare DNS takes 84%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “managed dns provider”

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not in the top ten

Position for “managed dns providers”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 2,900 a month (“dns made easy”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 18 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 6,242 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,171 · 31 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 19,492
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 2 of 78 in Managed DNS

Segment leader

84%

Cloudflare DNS

First choices: 4 across its categories
Named in: 37 answers
Its own site cited: in 36 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.

Names read as DNS Made Easy

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as DNS Made Easy; a claim can dispute any of them.

DNS Made Easy (by DigiCert) 1DNS Made Easy (now part of Tiggee) 1

Follow DNS Made Easy

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

DNS Made Easy is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Best Managed DNS Services for Any Sized Business
dnsmadeeasy.com
For: Any Sized Business
dnsmadeeasy.com
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What DNS Made Easy's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: dnsmadeeasy.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claim this page

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 DNS Made Easy'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 DNS Made Easy, 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 DNS Made Easy by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where DNS Made Easy 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 DNS Made Easy, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where DNS Made Easy is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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DNS Made Easy is among the products AI models recommend first in Managed DNS this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

Show the code

<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/network/managed-dns/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/dns-made-easy--managed-dns-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Managed DNS, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Managed DNS standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/network/managed-dns/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/dns-made-easy--managed-dns-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Managed DNS, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Managed DNS standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/network/managed-dns/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/dns-made-easy--managed-dns-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Managed DNS, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Managed DNS standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.