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Microsoft DNS

5Judge labels

0First choices

4Negative labels

4 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Microsoft DNS was named 4 times in DDI and IPAM, where BlueCat Micetro led with 15%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market115 of 115

under the label threshold

Enterprise75 of 83

under the label threshold

In ddi and ipam · 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 Microsoft 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
DDI and IP address management	Network and edge	0%	115 of 115	75%	4	under 10 labels · led by BlueCat Micetro at 15%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Microsoft 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 Microsoft 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	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.

“managing DNS and DHCP via separate tools (like Microsoft DNS alone) ... Verdict: Avoid” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DDI and IPAM · negative prompt · hard negative

“BlueCat notes risks such as DNS replication issues, change-control problems, outdated records, operational complexity, and security concerns when Microsoft DNS is used as the main foundation.” Perplexity Sonar · DDI and IPAM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Not "vendors to avoid" but architectures to move away from at enterprise scale” Kimi K2 · DDI and IPAM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Microsoft DNS, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft DNS was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

BlueCat Integrity4 of 50Not among the top eight

Infoblox4 of 50Not among the top eight

BIND3 of 50Not among the top eight

EfficientIP SOLIDserver2 of 50Not among the top eight

Micetro2 of 50Not among the top eight

BloxOne1 of 50Not among the top eight

ISC DHCP1 of 50Not among the top eight

Inform ERP1 of 50Not among the top eight

Men&Mice1 of 50Not among the top eight

SolarWinds IP Address Manager1 of 50Not 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 Microsoft 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 5 of the 5 answers that named Microsoft DNS and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bluecatnetworks.com5

infoblox.com4

g2.com3

slashdot.org3

us.fitgap.com3

bestdevops.com2

callevanetworks.com2

gartner.com2

peerspot.com2

rfp.wiki2

Twenty-eight of the twenty-eight domain citations in answers naming Microsoft DNS came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

bluecatnetworks.com/blog/four-steps-to-succeed-with-your-ddi-solution3

bluecatnetworks.com/blog/how-to-budget-for-a-dns-dhcp-and-ipam-solution3

slashdot.org/software/ddi-management3

bestdevops.com/top-10-ddi-dns-dhcp-ipam-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison2

bluecatnetworks.com/resources/nine-reasons-to-unify-your-ddi2

bluecatnetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/DDI-Maturity-Report-Drives-Multi-Cloud-Auto2

g2.com/products/ddi-system/reviews2

gartner.com/reviews/market/dns-dhcp-and-ip-address-management-ddi2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Microsoft DNS

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

Microsoft DNS/DHCP + IPAM 1Microsoft DNS/DHCP with spreadsheets 1

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The company

Microsoft is the company behind Microsoft DNS.

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Company records

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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 Microsoft 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 Microsoft 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 Microsoft DNS by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Microsoft 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 Microsoft 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.