Every category where a model named Namecheap 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%	75 of 78	67%	6	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare DNS at 84%
Cloud hosting	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	42 of 85	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 32%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
DDoS protection	Network and edge	0%	53 of 58	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 82%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Namecheap 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 Namecheap 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	0	0	2	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	2	2
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained7 labels1

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative8 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative22 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 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.

“consider ClouDNS or Namecheap if you need additional features” Mistral Small · Managed DNS · budget 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.

“default registrar DNS like GoDaddy or Namecheap, which lacks the reliability, security, and APIs needed for a 500-person organization” 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

“basic tier plans from Bluehost, GoDaddy, Namecheap... Do not rely on them” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DDoS · negative prompt · hard negative

“their free/basic DNS tier has limitations. They impose strict caps on the total number of DNS records” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed DNS · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Namecheap, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Namecheap was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare DNS20 of 2213Not among the top eight

Amazon Route 5315 of 222Not among the top eight

GoDaddy DNS12 of 220Not among the top eight

Google Cloud DNS10 of 221Not among the top eight

ClouDNS10 of 220Not among the top eight

DNSimple7 of 220Not among the top eight

NS16 of 220Not among the top eight

Azure DNS5 of 221Not among the top eight

Bluehost5 of 220Not among the top eight

Network Solutions5 of 220Not 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 Namecheap. 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 18 of the 22 answers that named Namecheap and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com10

logicmonitor.com10

slashdot.org8

zipdo.co8

cloudflare.com7

us.fitgap.com7

ecommerceparadise.com6

cloudns.net5

ioriver.io5

reddit.com5

No domain is on file for Namecheap, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

logicmonitor.com/deep-dive/dns-monitoring/managed-dns9

slashdot.org/software/managed-dns/f-small-business8

zipdo.co/service/dns-management8

ecommerceparadise.com/best-dns-hosting-providers6

cloudflare.com/products/dns5

cloudns.net/5

ioriver.io/blog/top-dns-providers5

us.fitgap.com/search/managed-dns-providers-software/enterprise5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Namecheap 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: 201,000 a month (“namecheap”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 1,740 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 75 of 78 in Managed DNS

Segment leader

84%

Cloudflare DNS

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 22 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

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 Namecheap

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

Namecheap (BasicDNS) 1

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

where Namecheap 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 Namecheap, 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.