Every category where a model named DNSimple 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	0%	22 of 78	29%	7	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare DNS at 84%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for DNSimple 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 DNSimple across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
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	0	3	0	3

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

Direct7 labels1

Paraphrase10 labels3

Comparative12 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained8 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labels2

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative46 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 8 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.

“DNSimple is often positioned for small-to-mid-size teams” Perplexity Sonar · Managed DNS · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“DNSimple (Best for Ease of Use & Automated Workflows)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed DNS · paraphrase 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.

“DNSimple: assess, don\u2019t automatically avoid... caused intermittent `SERVFAIL` responses” GPT-6 Luna · Managed DNS · negative prompt · soft negative

“praised for convenience, but it is not the most budget-oriented pick” Perplexity Sonar · Managed DNS · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as DNSimple, over the 46 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DNSimple was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare DNS41 of 4630Not among the top eight

Amazon Route 5331 of 460Not among the top eight

Google Cloud DNS22 of 460Not among the top eight

ClouDNS20 of 460Not among the top eight

NS111 of 460Not among the top eight

Hurricane Electric8 of 460Not among the top eight

Namecheap7 of 460Not among the top eight

easyDNS6 of 461Not among the top eight

GoDaddy DNS6 of 460Not among the top eight

Azure DNS4 of 460Not 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 DNSimple. 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 45 of the 46 answers that named DNSimple and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com24

zipdo.co24

ioriver.io22

cloudflare.com17

cloudns.net17

slashdot.org17

sourceforge.net16

wifitalents.com14

itechguides.com13

logicmonitor.com13

177 of the 177 domain citations in answers naming DNSimple came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

ioriver.io/blog/top-dns-providers21

zipdo.co/service/dns-management21

zipdo.co/service/dns-hosting16

slashdot.org/software/managed-dns/f-small-business14

cloudns.net/13

g2.com/categories/managed-dns-solutions/small-business13

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

cloudflare.com/plans11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

dnsimple.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, DNSimple takes 0% 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: 1,000 a month (“dnsimple”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 12 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 178,305 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 5,413 · 500 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 3,829
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

8 ads · 5 text, 3 video · 6 shown in the last 30 days

First shown December 2025, as DNSimple Corporation, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 8 in the year.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 22 of 78 in Managed DNS

Segment leader

84%

Cloudflare DNS

First choices: 6 across its categories
Named in: 46 answers
Its own site cited: in 45 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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Addresses on dnsimple.com

1,775

subdomains included

Content

562

counted in the table below

Documentation

499

Product · Integration

6 · 2

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	493	2	2026-08-27	Managed DNS
Glossary or explainer	28	undated
Comparison	16	0	2014-04-01
Case study	12	undated
Conference or event	6	0	2017-10-01
News or press	5	undated
Webinar or virtual event	1	0	2017-12-01
Template or tool	1	undated

Most recent

2026-08-27Building our fully independent dns edge blog
2026-08-01Building our fully independent dns edge blog
2026-06-18Dnsimple cli browser login blog
2026-06-11Why dnsimple is a good option for msps blog
2026-06-03Domain state change webhook blog
2026-06-01Domain state change webhook blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page dnsimple.com 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 DNSimple

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.

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The company

DNSimple is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Reliable DNS hosting and domain management with DNSimple's secure REST API.
dnsimple.com
For: Enterprise
dnsimple.com
Price stated: Solo Free; Solo Pro $19 USD /month; Teams $29 USD /month; Enterprise Custom dnsimple.com/pricing
Starting price: 0.50 per hosted zone per month dnsimple.com/pricing
Free plan or trial: Free For 1 user; Start Your 30 Day Free Trial Now dnsimple.com/pricing
Integrations claimed: 4 dnsimple.com/pricing
Certifications: PCI-Compliant network
Customers named: Linux FoundationClickFunnelsRubygemsCountry Maid Inc.CaddyTitoUnsplashUserlist
Not stated on the pages read: Hosting

What DNSimple's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: dnsimple.com, dnsimple.com/pricing, dnsimple.com/security, dnsimple.com/products/domains, dnsimple.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for DNSimple by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where DNSimple 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 DNSimple, 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.