# Managed DNS: what AI models recommend, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Asked as "managed DNS provider" and as "authoritative DNS hosting", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. Added to the November 2026 Edition. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/managed-dns/2026-11

**Standing:** Cloudflare DNS leads with 95% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 44 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Cloudflare DNS](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/cloudflare-dns/index.md) | 95% | 7% | 73 |
| 2 | [Amazon Route 53](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/amazon-route-53/index.md) | 2% | 11% | 61 |
| 3 | [IBM NS1 Connect](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/ibm-ns1-connect/index.md) | 2% | 5% | 19 |
| 4 | [DNS Made Easy](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/dns-made-easy/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 29 |
| 5 | [Google Cloud DNS](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/google-cloud-dns/index.md) | 0% | 16% | 37 |
| 6 | [Azure DNS](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/azure-dns/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 23 |
| 7 | [NS1](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/ns1/index.md) | 0% | 6% | 18 |
| 8 | [Akamai Edge DNS](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/akamai-edge-dns/index.md) | 0% | 21% | 34 |
| 9 | [ClouDNS](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/cloudns/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 15 |
| 10 | [DNSimple](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/dnsimple/index.md) | 0% | 18% | 17 |
| 16 | [Dyn](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/dyn/index.md) | 0% | 29% | 14 |
| 82 | [GoDaddy Premium DNS](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/godaddy-premium-dns/index.md) | 0% | 83% | 12 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 82 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Cloudflare DNS; alternatives NS1, Route 53
- GPT-5.4 mini: Cloudflare DNS, IBM NS1 Connect; alternatives Amazon Route 53
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Cloudflare DNS; alternatives Amazon Route 53, Constellix, DNS Made Easy, IBM NS1 Connect
- Perplexity Sonar: Cloudflare DNS; alternatives Amazon Route 53, DNS Made Easy
- Grok 4.20: Cloudflare DNS; alternatives Amazon Route 53, IBM NS1 Connect, Microsoft Azure DNS
- Mistral Small: Cloudflare DNS; alternatives Akamai Edge DNS, ClouDNS, DNS Made Easy, DNSimple
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Cloudflare DNS; alternatives Amazon Route 53, Constellix, DNS Made Easy, IBM NS1 Connect
- Llama 4 Maverick: Cloudflare DNS; alternatives DNSimple
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Cloudflare DNS; alternatives Amazon Route 53, DNS Made Easy, DNSimple
- Kimi K2: Cloudflare DNS; alternatives DNS Made Easy, IBM NS1 Connect
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Amazon Route 53, Cloudflare DNS; alternatives Azure DNS, DNS Made Easy, DNSimple
- MiniMax M2.5: Cloudflare DNS; alternatives DNS Made Easy, DNSimple, Vercara
- GPT-6 Luna: Cloudflare DNS; alternatives Amazon Route 53, IBM NS1 Connect
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Cloudflare DNS; alternatives Amazon Route 53, DNS Made Easy, IBM NS1 Connect, NS1

## Sources the answers cite

71 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- g2.com: 24 answers, 34 citations
- peerspot.com: 22 answers, 27 citations
- gane.ai/index: 22 answers, 24 citations
- cloudflare.com: 19 answers, 36 citations
- dnsmadeeasy.com: 19 answers, 20 citations
- reddit.com: 18 answers, 32 citations
- sourceforge.net: 18 answers, 19 citations
- dnsimple.com: 16 answers, 17 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://peerspot.com/categories/managed-dns (21 answers)
- https://gane.ai/index/it/network/managed-dns (20 answers)
- https://dnsmadeeasy.com/ (19 answers)
- https://cloudflare.com/products/dns (16 answers)
- https://dnsimple.com/business (16 answers)
- https://logicmonitor.com/deep-dive/dns-monitoring/managed-dns (16 answers)
- https://blog.noip.com/the-top-managed-dns-providers (13 answers)
- https://routersecurity.org/DNS.providers.php (11 answers)
- https://easydns.com/dns (10 answers)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_managed_DNS_providers (10 answers)

## Warned against

- GoDaddy Premium DNS: 10 of 12 labels negative. "Suffered a significant security breach in December 2022... raising concerns about both security and service quality." (Mistral Small, negative prompt)
- Network Solutions: 7 of 7 labels negative. "Providers to Avoid or Be Cautious About ... Network Solutions ⚠️ - Issue: Statistically significant reliability problems" (Kimi K2, negative prompt)
- Amazon Route 53: 7 of 61 labels negative. "The managed DNS providers that you should avoid or be cautious about are:

1. Amazon Route 53" (Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt)
- Akamai Edge DNS: 7 of 34 labels negative. "Akamai's July 2021 Edge DNS disruption followed a configuration update that triggered a software bug" (Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: Cloudflare DNS at 95%.

- Cloudflare DNS: 86% to 95%, +9. Inside the floor by 2 points · rank 1 of 82, unchanged.
- DNS Made Easy: 7% to 0%, −7. Inside the floor by 4 points · rank 2 → 4 of 82.
- IBM NS1 Connect: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 10 → 3 of 82.
- Akamai Edge DNS: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 4 → 8 of 82.
- Amazon Route 53: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 3 → 2 of 82.
- Google Cloud DNS: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 6 → 5 of 82.
- Azure DNS: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 8 → 6 of 82.
- NS1: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 7 of 82, unchanged.
- ClouDNS: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 9 of 82, unchanged.
- DNSimple: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 21 → 10 of 82.
- UltraDNS: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 11 → 14 of 82.
- Dyn: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 14 → 16 of 82.

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.