Every category where a model named GoDaddy DNS 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%	78 of 78	89%	9	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 GoDaddy DNS 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 GoDaddy DNS across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative20 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative28 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Suffered a significant security breach in December 2022 affecting many customers. Their support is often criticized as outsourced and inconsistent.” MiniMax M2.5 · Managed DNS · negative prompt · hard negative

“companies this size still use default registrar DNS like GoDaddy or Namecheap, which lacks the reliability, security, and APIs needed” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed DNS · scale prompt · hard negative

“keeping your DNS and your domain registration in the same bucket violates the principle of separation of duties” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Managed DNS · negative prompt · hard negative

“GoDaddy's basic DNS infrastructure is slow compared to enterprise-grade alternatives.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed DNS · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as GoDaddy DNS, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and GoDaddy DNS was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare DNS28 of 2815Not among the top eight

Amazon Route 5325 of 284Not among the top eight

Google Cloud DNS18 of 281Not among the top eight

Namecheap12 of 281Not among the top eight

Network Solutions12 of 280Not among the top eight

NS110 of 280Not among the top eight

Azure DNS9 of 281Not among the top eight

Akamai Edge DNS8 of 280Not among the top eight

ClouDNS6 of 280Not among the top eight

DNSimple6 of 280Not 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 GoDaddy DNS. 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 26 of the 28 answers that named GoDaddy DNS and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com17

wifitalents.com13

logicmonitor.com12

reddit.com12

dnslab.dev8

statusgator.com8

worldmetrics.org8

zipdo.co8

forbes.com7

rfp.wiki7

100 of the 100 domain citations in answers naming GoDaddy DNS came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

logicmonitor.com/deep-dive/dns-monitoring/managed-dns11

dnslab.dev/learn/docs/operations/managed-dns8

g2.com/categories/managed-dns-solutions7

worldmetrics.org/service/managed-dns7

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-domain-registrar6

zipdo.co/service/dns-management6

digitalhouse.cloud/best-managed-dns-providers5

statusgator.com/services/network-solutions/dnsdomains5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

godaddy.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, GoDaddy DNS 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 (“godaddy dns”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 319 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 3,161,421 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 158,802 · 12,167 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 5,819,904
Paid Google search: 55 searches its ads show for, about 821 clicks and $10,174 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

119+ ads · 66 text, 29 video, 24 image · 119 shown in the last 30 days

First shown August 2023, as GoDaddy.com, LLC, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 91 in the year, 28 before. 1 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 78 of 78 in Managed DNS

Segment leader

84%

Cloudflare DNS

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 28 answers
Its own site cited: in 26 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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 godaddy.com

341

subdomains included

Content

counted in the table below

Documentation

317

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	2025-10 to 2026-09	Latest	Categories named
Case study	1	undated
Glossary or explainer	1	undated

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page godaddy.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. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as GoDaddy DNS

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

GoDaddy 6GoDaddy Pro 1

Follow GoDaddy DNS

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

GoDaddy DNS is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Customers named: Walton Goggins
Not stated on the pages read: Positioning, who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

What GoDaddy DNS's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: godaddy.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 GoDaddy DNS'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 GoDaddy DNS, 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 GoDaddy DNS by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where GoDaddy DNS 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 GoDaddy DNS, 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.