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Managed DNS · Ranked

ClouDNS

ClouDNS is a managed DNS service for organizations that need to host and run their domain name infrastructure · cloudns.net ↗

#6Best rank (enterprise)
11/14Models named it
3First choices
3Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inManaged DNS #6 enterprise
What AI models recommend

Read the same way at every company size.

The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.

Small business
Asked for a small B2B company
#4 of 68 named for small business
Share of first picks2%

Cloudflare DNS is first at 80%.

Mid-market
Asked for a mid-market B2B company
#9 of 82 named for mid-market
Share of first picks0%

Cloudflare DNS is first at 95%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.

Enterprise
Asked for an enterprise B2B company
#6 of 78 named for enterprise
Share of first picks4%

Cloudflare DNS is first at 61%.

Why models recommend it

“Choose ClouDNS if: You want a traditional "Domain Registrar" style experience with easy-to-use tools and reliable support for under $10/month.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“offers affordable services starting with free DNS for first-timers up to the GeoDNS plan at $9.95 monthly”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“ClouDNS offers premium features starting at just $2.95/month, which is extremely affordable.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Provides a free DNS plan with 4 unicast DNS servers... premium plans starting at $2.95/month”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · alternative

What gives them pause

No model argued against it.

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as ClouDNS, over the 55 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

ProductNamed togetherPicked instead
Cloudflare DNS
5337View →
Amazon Route 53
421View →
DNSimple
304View →
Google Cloud DNS
240View →
DNS Made Easy
192View →
IBM NS1 Connect
162View →
Akamai Edge DNS
120View →
NS1
101View →
GoDaddy Premium DNS
100View →
Namecheap
80View →

What the models named instead of ClouDNS →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on ClouDNS's own site, not checked by Gane.

For
businesses
Price stated
Free Forever; Premium DNS Starting from: $2.95/month; DDoS Protected DNS Starting from: $5.95/month; GeoDNS Starting from: $9.95/month
Starting price
Free Forever
Free plan or trial
Free Forever
Hosting
Europe, North and South America, Asia, Australia, North America, South America, Africa
Visit cloudns.net ↗

How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

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Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named ClouDNS came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 53 of the 55 answers that named ClouDNS and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com37
dnsimple.com25
slashdot.org18
cloudns.netIts own site17
dnsmadeeasy.com17
sourceforge.net17
cloudflare.com16
totaluptime.com14
peerspot.com12
topbusinesssoftware.com12

168 of the 185 domain citations in answers naming ClouDNS came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

dnsimple.com/business25
g2.com/categories/managed-dns-solutions/small-business25
dnsmadeeasy.com/17
slashdot.org/software/managed-dns/f-small-business16
cloudflare.com/products/dns13
peerspot.com/categories/managed-dns12
blog.noip.com/the-top-managed-dns-providers11
cloudflare.com/plans9

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on ClouDNS across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.2002103
Mistral Small02103
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick01102
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.501001
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00101

What it publishes

Addresses on cloudns.net
1,229
subdomains included
Content
918
counted in the table below
Documentation
1
Product · Integration
0 · 0
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-11 to 2026-10LatestCategories named
Blog570182026-09-28CDN
News or press30552026-09-29
Case study30undatedCDN
Glossary or explainer1032026-08-21
Comparison222026-07-24
Conference or event1undated

Most recent

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page cloudns.net exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.