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AkaRank return #net

🕢︎ - 2026-08-31 - ♺ 1
Plot of Akarank for asjo.org (and a couple of competing domains).

Back in March I learned that one of my domains asjo.org was in the top 1000 in Akamai's AkaRank DNS ranking.

I set up graphing of the ranking, to be able to follow along. I also looked up the earliest ranking I could find in The Internet Archive (446 on 2025-11-13 - above wikipedia.org!), and added it to my dataset.

A couple of months after the discovery the ranking dropped significantly - suddenly my little domain was only listed in the top ~150K.

It stayed around there for another couple of months, and then it suddenly dropped to top ~900K.

I was half expecting that somebody noticed they had misconfigured something and fixed it, but still, none of my other domains are in the top 1 million.

Some weeks went by, then the ranking jumped up, and then up again, so now asjo.org is at 1268! That means that Akamai sees more DNS lookups for asjo.org than they do for domains such as messenger.com, samsungmobile.com, twitch.tv, visa.com, mastercard.com, amazon.it, and kaspersky.com just to mention a few.

The mystery lives on.

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