August 2020 DNS Speed Comparison Report

These are the dns speed rankings for August 2020. This report includes the fastest managed DNS services across the world. In the month of August 2020, DNSMadeEasy, Verizon and NSOne are the top three managed DNS providers in terms of speed. Averaged across all name servers, DNSMadeEasy took 2.13 milliseconds, Verizon took 2.52 milliseconds and NSOne took 3.09 milliseconds. These are across several million DNS queries across over 1.1 million name servers across the world. DNSMadeEasy has 16 points of presence across the world. Verizon has 20 network locations and NSOne has 22 locations.

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Ranking	Name	Average	Median	LA	Dallas	NY	SF	LON	AM	SG	Min	Max	SD	95% CI	AnyCast	PoPs	DNSSEC
1	DNSMadeEasy	2.13	1.99	2.35	2.57	1.26	3.01	1.99	2.18	1.55	1.09	4.47	0.66	[2.01, 2.25]	Yes	16	No
2	Verizon	2.52	2.27	3.44	4.02	1.74	2.92	2.02	2.19	1.27	0.87	6.9	1.34	[2.1, 2.93]	Yes	20	No
3	NSOne	3.09	2.67	2.98	3.68	4.08	3.56	2.85	2.51	1.96	1.26	9.72	1.56	[2.88, 3.29]	Yes	22	No
4	Constellix	5.39	3.92	3.05	9.19	3.5	4.4	3.46	4.27	9.88	1.45	30.34	5.16	[3.83, 6.95]	Yes	15	No
5	CloudFlare	5.84	5.28	6.31	7.1	4.54	7.13	5.3	5.24	5.25	3.73	19.17	1.74	[5.71, 5.97]	Yes	120	Yes
6	Rage4	5.94	4.16	12.72	7.61	3.33	6.84	5.75	2.66	2.67	2.42	21.39	4.89	[3.38, 8.5]	Yes	34	Yes
7	Dyn	7.41	3.09	6.64	17.88	3.38	5.18	5.17	2.09	11.56	1.48	73.42	9.87	[6.78, 8.05]	Yes	18	Yes
8	No-IP	9.77	3.68	17.88	3.36	2.08	31.29	5.9	4.72	3.19	1.47	134.16	23.14	[2.11, 17.44]	Yes	55	Yes
9	Route 53	18.13	12.77	18.47	30.11	13.98	23.9	8.32	9.31	22.79	0.9	75.83	15.84	[17.87, 18.39]	Yes	50	No
10	He.net	20.05	4.42	6.44	14.24	14.41	6.06	25.73	29.83	43.63	1.75	181.91	39.22	[8.32, 31.77]	Yes	24	No
11	GoDaddy	22.83	10.75	10.75	34.51	2.1	13.92	9.4	2	87.13	1.47	93.36	28.18	[17.25, 28.41]	Yes	5	Yes
12	UltraDNS	22.92	7.52	80.79	17.61	3.94	7.23	4.93	9.38	36.55	1.02	151.89	38.1	[17.91, 27.93]	Yes	32	Yes
13	DNSimple	24.12	12.62	6.61	39.2	12.91	9.05	13.42	6.81	80.85	5.84	82.06	25.43	[14.7, 33.54]	Yes	5	No
14	Google	27.78	21.05	50.5	17.03	22.03	46.18	15.48	12.1	31.11	1.77	187.74	23.73	[24.45, 31.1]	Yes	12	Yes
15	Netriplex	35.6	14.37	15.58	5.06	15.76	17.73	12.4	2.93	179.74	2.6	181.05	59.1	[4.64, 66.56]	Yes	32	No
16	EasyDNS	56.51	49.55	51.12	50.68	36.61	49.42	42.01	41.77	123.96	1.61	233.37	48.07	[47.09, 65.93]	Yes	25	Yes
17	1and1	59.54	38.2	132.44	45.42	32.13	38.15	1.94	9.38	157.3	1.62	195.42	56.43	[57.63, 61.45]	Yes	14	No
18	Akamai	62.17	30.72	75.26	44.02	29.07	61.99	36.85	15.58	172.4	0.67	292.48	72.92	[58.6, 65.73]	Yes	NA	Yes
19	Rackspace	64.47	48.11	43.23	21.31	15.09	47	40.19	83.89	200.59	4.14	209.32	62.84	[31.55, 97.39]	Yes	5	No
20	ClouDNS	84.29	80.18	63.66	91.43	53.46	73.96	47.76	47.71	212.01	1.86	275.68	63.12	[66.43, 102.14]	No	9	Yes
21	ZoneEdit	98.2	87.83	103.15	89	70.1	104.94	68.62	73.2	178.41	1.38	243.24	68.45	[86.86, 109.54]	No	13	No
22	Afraid.org	114.06	100.5	64.61	59.24	82.64	67.9	147.24	151.16	225.62	21.6	260.31	62.09	[91.06, 137.05]	No	1	No
23	CDNetworks	121.45	69.63	3.92	50.95	256.38	200.15	264.03	5.28	69.43	2.35	267.11	106.75	[65.53, 177.37]	Yes	48	No
24	PointHQ	164.5	143.87	177.58	147.31	153.09	187.47	123.55	131.03	231.48	4.67	487.36	135.23	[134.3, 194.71]	No	5	No

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