Some have faster response times than others.
A Domain Name Wire reader recently notified me about a speed study that BunnyCDN performed. The content delivery network that helps speed up load times tested 42 top level domain names for their DNS resolution time. Here’s what it found:
The top six performers—.biz, .buzz, .club, .co, .us and .in—use Neustar for registry services.
The next eight top level domains are Donuts’ domains, which seem to use Neustar’s DNS services as well. You’ll note other clusters, such as Verisign’s .tv/.com/.net.
BunnyCDN noted that part of the problem with some TLDs is that some of their nameservers performed worse than others. Also, the group found that response time degraded significantly outside of North American and Europe for some TLDs.
The content delivery network pointed out that DNS response time isn’t the biggest factor in a site’s performance, but I found the study and results interesting.
(Hat tip: Jorge)
Maybe with those extra billions Network Solutions can upgrade their servers.
Neustar is not Network Solutions, and the extra billions are going to be collected by Verisign, which is neither.
Donuts uses ARI DNS, not Ultra DNS. Although they are both Neustar these days, they are not the same thing. The comparison clearly found a difference.
I guess it makes sense .buzz and .live are faster than the .com’s and .org’s trying to chase them.
And .top wins again by having the most milliseconds of all. Congratulations.
Is there any geo related restriction? Will it be the same in RoW such as EU, UK, China, Thailand?
I did a little investigating and found that many of the TLDs in the bottom of the list use infrastructure from CentralNic Group.