Every category where a model named Vercara 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	2%	5 of 78	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare DNS at 84%
DDoS protection	Network and edge	0%	16 of 58	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 82%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Attack surface management	Security operations	0%	81 of 100	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 49%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
DNS filtering	Network and edge	0%	64 of 94	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by DNSFilter at 59%

Movement

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

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
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	1	0	0	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

Direct4 labels1

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative14 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“called out as a strong fit for SMBs and mid-market companies, offering managed DNS solutions with enterprise-grade security” Muse Glimmer 30B · Managed DNS · direct prompt · first choice

“Vercara/Neustar Security Services is a strong fit for SMBs and mid-market enterprises” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DDoS · direct prompt · alternative

“specialize in high‑capacity L3/L4 DNS/IP scrubbing, best for heavy volumetric attacks” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DDoS · comparative 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Vercara, over the 14 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Vercara was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare6 of 145Not among the top eight

Akamai Prolexic5 of 141Not among the top eight

Radware Cloud DDoS Protection5 of 141Not among the top eight

AWS Shield5 of 140Not among the top eight

Cloudflare DNS4 of 142Not among the top eight

DNSFilter4 of 142Not among the top eight

Imperva DDoS Protection4 of 140Not among the top eight

Infoblox Threat Defense4 of 140Not among the top eight

Cisco Umbrella3 of 141Not among the top eight

Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector3 of 140Not 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 Vercara. 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 12 of the 14 answers that named Vercara and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cybersecuritynews.com6

expertinsights.com5

gbhackers.com5

slashdot.org5

cyberpress.org4

esecurityplanet.com4

sourceforge.net4

controld.com3

flowtriq.com3

g2.com3

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

Pages cited

esecurityplanet.com/products/distributed-denial-of-service-ddos-protection-vendors4

gbhackers.com/protective-dns-services-compared-pricing4

cyberpress.org/best-dns-filtering-solutions3

cybersecuritynews.com/bst-protective-dns-services3

flowtriq.com/blog/best-cloud-ddos-protection3

gartner.com/reviews/market/ddos-mitigation-solutions3

indusface.com/blog/best-ddos-protection-software3

aimultiple.com/dns-security2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Vercara

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

Neustar (TransUnion) / Vercara 1Vercara (UltraDNS) 1Vercara (formerly Farsight) 1Vercara / Neustar Security Services 1Vercara/Neustar 1

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where Vercara 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 Vercara, 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;
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