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IBM NS1 Connect

45Judge labels
4First choices
8Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
9% in Managed DNS for enterprise buyers
Rank 11 of 78 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 17% of its 12 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of IBM NS1 Connect →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business67 of 69
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market11 of 78
0%12 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise2 of 96
9%27 labels
accepted challenger
In managed dns · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named IBM NS1 Connect 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Managed DNSNetwork and edge0%11 of 7817%12accepted challenger
DNS filteringNetwork and edge0%33 of 940%1under 10 labels · led by DNSFilter at 59%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for IBM NS1 Connect 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 IBM NS1 Connect across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash02002
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00011
DeepSeek V4 Flash01012
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.502002
GPT-6 Luna02002
Muse Glimmer 30B00101

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 labelsNone
Paraphrase10 labels3
Comparative13 labelsNone
Budget-constrained3 labels1
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative5 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative45 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.

“Enterprise-Grade | IBM NS1/Neustar UltraDNS, Dyn, Infoblox (DDI) | Complex routing, multi-cloud orchestration” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Managed DNS · scale prompt · alternative
“If you need advanced traffic management capabilities, NS1 would be the choice.” MiniMax M2.5 · Managed DNS · direct prompt · alternative
“If you need highly configurable global steering, look at NS1.” GPT-6 Luna · Managed DNS · comparative prompt · alternative
“IBM NS1 Connect - Enterprise-focused with strong reliability” MiniMax M2.5 · DNS filtering · 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.

“Higher cost (~$250+/month) — typically above mid-market budgets unless you have complex routing needs.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed DNS · direct prompt · soft negative
“Users find the interface overly complex and difficult to navigate” Mistral Small · Managed DNS · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as IBM NS1 Connect, over the 45 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM NS1 Connect was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Cloudflare DNS38 of 4526Not among the top eight
Amazon Route 5337 of 451Not among the top eight
Akamai Edge DNS21 of 451Not among the top eight
Google Cloud DNS20 of 451Not among the top eight
Azure DNS15 of 451Not among the top eight
DNS Made Easy7 of 451Not among the top eight
ClouDNS7 of 450Not among the top eight
UltraDNS6 of 450Not among the top eight
Dyn5 of 450Not among the top eight
Infoblox5 of 450Not 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 IBM NS1 Connect. 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 45 answers that named IBM NS1 Connect and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

us.fitgap.com18
ibm.comYour site17
g2.com15
peerspot.com15
cloudflare.com14
ioriver.io14
worldmetrics.org14
gitnux.org13
wifitalents.com13
aws.amazon.com12

128 of the 145 domain citations in answers naming IBM NS1 Connect came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

us.fitgap.com/search/managed-dns-providers-software/enterprise17
dnslab.dev/learn/docs/operations/managed-dns11
ioriver.io/blog/top-dns-providers11
worldmetrics.org/service/managed-dns11
logicmonitor.com/deep-dive/dns-monitoring/managed-dns10
peerspot.com/categories/managed-dns10
g2.com/categories/managed-dns-solutions9
ibm.com/docs/en/ns1-connect9

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where IBM NS1 Connect stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Searches for its name, Google
50 a month (“ibm ns1 connect”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
0 a month
Its own site
It sits on IBM's site (ibm.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 11 of 78 in Managed DNS
Segment leader
84%
Cloudflare DNS
First choices
4 across its categories
Named in
45 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.

Names read as IBM NS1 Connect

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as IBM NS1 Connect; a claim can dispute any of them.
IBM NS1 1IBM NS1 Connect (formerly NS1) 1IBM NS1/Neustar UltraDNS 1

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The company

IBM is the company behind IBM NS1 Connect.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
provides managed authoritative DNS with anycast routing and automated failover to reduce latency, improve resilience and keep apps available
ibm.com/products/ns1-connect
For
small to mid-size businesses
ibm.com/products/ns1-connect
Price stated
available through flexible plan options—essential, standard and premium ibm.com/products/ns1-connect
Free plan or trial
30 day Free Trial ibm.com/products/ns1-connect
Integrations claimed
20 ibm.com/products/ns1-connect
Customers named
NetlifyDropboxCatchpointGlobalDotsIO River
Not stated on the pages read
Certifications, hosting

What IBM NS1 Connect's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: ibm.com/products/ns1-connect, ibm.com/products/ns1-connect/demo, ibm.com/es-es/products/ns1-connect, ibm.com/it-it/products/ns1-connect, ibm.com/id-id/products/ns1-connect. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • 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 IBM NS1 Connect, 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.
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