Domain Name System

Quality:

Domain Name Server - Server to identify resources on a network. Article "Domain Name System" in English Wikipedia has 70.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 79 references and 44 sections.

This article has the best quality in Tamil Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2060^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4182^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1487^th most popular in all topics.

The 2674^th most popular in AI.

In June 2025 the article "Domain Name System" was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Domain Name System", its content was written by 1186 registered users of English Wikipedia (4182^nd place) and edited by 4623 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2674^th place).

The article is cited 1254 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10237 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #350 in April 2004
• Global: #200 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #499 in September 2008
• Global: #404 in July 2008

There are 51 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Tamil (ta) களப் பெயர் முறைமை		81.3443
2	English (en) Domain Name System		70.9456
3	German (de) Domain Name System		69.0194
4	Hindi (hi) डोमेन नाम प्रणाली		61.8909
5	Hungarian (hu) Domain Name System		57.9452
6	French (fr) Domain Name System		50.5986
7	Croatian (hr) Sustav domenskih imena		45.8784
8	Portuguese (pt) Sistema de Nomes de Domínio		44.6076
9	Chinese (zh) 域名系统		44.0175
10	Indonesian (id) Sistem Penamaan Domain		41.1032

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Domain Name System		31 541 903
2	German (de) Domain Name System		6 825 441
3	Russian (ru) DNS		6 817 979
4	Spanish (es) Sistema de nombres de dominio		6 476 396
5	French (fr) Domain Name System		4 332 537
6	Polish (pl) Domain Name System		3 267 580
7	Italian (it) Domain Name System		2 269 729
8	Portuguese (pt) Sistema de Nomes de Domínio		1 923 662
9	Japanese (ja) Domain Name System		1 784 166
10	Chinese (zh) 域名系统		1 334 747

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Domain Name System		44 268
2	Russian (ru) DNS		7 672
3	German (de) Domain Name System		6 548
4	French (fr) Domain Name System		5 055
5	Spanish (es) Sistema de nombres de dominio		2 725
6	Italian (it) Domain Name System		2 385
7	Chinese (zh) 域名系统		1 661
8	Japanese (ja) Domain Name System		1 539
9	Polish (pl) Domain Name System		1 323
10	Turkish (tr) DNS		996

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Domain Name System		1 186
2	German (de) Domain Name System		436
3	French (fr) Domain Name System		274
4	Spanish (es) Sistema de nombres de dominio		253
5	Russian (ru) DNS		219
6	Italian (it) Domain Name System		201
7	Polish (pl) Domain Name System		175
8	Dutch (nl) Domain Name System		138
9	Chinese (zh) 域名系统		122
10	Portuguese (pt) Sistema de Nomes de Domínio		104

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Domain Name System		6
2	Czech (cs) Domain Name System		3
3	Italian (it) Domain Name System		2
4	Tamil (ta) களப் பெயர் முறைமை		2
5	Turkish (tr) DNS		2
6	Finnish (fi) DNS		1
7	Romanian (ro) Domain Name System		1
8	Arabic (ar) نظام أسماء النطاقات		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Domain Name System		0
10	Belarusian (be) DNS		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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