#DNS
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #DNS from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #dns
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-09 17:03 UTC94 uses by 86 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-09 17:03 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-09 17:03 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~76 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 15:00
Languages: English (27) · French (4) · Italian (2) · German (2) · Russian (2) · Polish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 4.3
Top of the latest posts
At the core of the global internet are the DNS root servers. These 13 go-to places are at the top of authority when it comes to making sure you can connect to any server with a domain name. What you might not know is that 10 of these 13 roo
In the light of recent events, I've been trying to work out if country-specific top level domain names (ccTLDs) are controlled by the US government, but it is frustratingly opaque. All domains including ccTLDs are controlled by the Internet
PowerDNS DNSdist 2.1.2 and 2.0.9 Released https://blog.powerdns.com/2026/09/08/powerdns-dnsdist-2.1.2-and-2.0.9 #dns #dnssec
What “dns” means
WikipediaThe Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and distributed name service that provides a naming system for computers, services, and other resources on the Internet or other Internet Protocol (IP) networks. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the associated entities. Most prominently, it translates readily memorized domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for locating and identifying computer services and devices with the underlying network protoco
“Domain Name System” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#dns across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #dns straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/dns