Hi -- glad you like the post. /32s are individual DNS resolver IPs we observed in each country from among the sample we took (half a percent of the traffic we saw during a 24h period).
The >10Q column is how many of those resolvers we saw that did >10Q from among our sample -- you can see there are many fewer resolvers that are doing even moderate amounts of traffic.
Certainly a huge drop-off. There is a lot of noise out there -- a lot of "resolvers" doing very few queries, whether because they have very few users, or because they're one-off special purpose resolvers. Vast majority of the internet is really serviced by a few thousand major DNS resolvers. Obviously Google/OpenDNS are chief among those, but Comcast and other major ISPs account for most of the volume, as you'd probably expect.
Kris here. Thanks Chris for putting this together, it was a really fun set of questions. I think a lot of what makes NSONE different is the philosophy behind the tech. We're not a DNS company, we're a traffic management company and we think DNS is a great place to do traffic management. Hope that comes across in this article.
At 2M queries/mo our list pricing is $8 (https://nsone.net/support/billing/). Indeed our Biz Plan is $200 -- but that includes 24/7 support, 25M queries, and other bells & whistles. If you just need a little more volume, stick with the startup plan.
That said, indeed, in general we're more expensive than R53, Rage4, and various others, because of the depth of capabilities of the platform and the quality of the support we provide. But we're also pretty unique in giving away 1M queries free with no feature locking, so our most advanced stuff is available to everyone. If you're just after basic geo-routing at the lowest cost, we're happy to help but you may find other services cheaper; but if you intend to go beyond geo to complex failover arrangements, load shedding, weighting/stickiness, network-based fencing, etc, then do some tinkering with NSONE and let us know what you think. Feedback is always good. :)
Fair enough, I just glanced at the pricing pages. As this is intended for something that is ultimately a hobby of mine, it is more price sensitive than feature/support sensitive.
If I was trying to make a living at it, I'd seriously consider you even at $200/month.
The reason for my joy at the R53 news is the fact that w/o Geo it'd be worthless to me.
The >10Q column is how many of those resolvers we saw that did >10Q from among our sample -- you can see there are many fewer resolvers that are doing even moderate amounts of traffic.