evidence
Public DNS check of nameservers for credited client domains (September 2026)
| Evidence class | official |
|---|---|
| Evidence type | dns-record |
| Source | Public DNS (nameserver and address records) |
| Accessed | 2026-09-10 |
| Method | For each of 543 referring domains, queried NS and A records. Navigator's Cloudflare account answers on aaden.ns.cloudflare.com and amalia.ns.cloudflare.com (the same pair as navigator.ca). Domains resolving to 51.161.84.13, 149.56.20.211, 155.138.144.33 or 155.138.130.221 are on Navigator origin servers. |
| Supports | Navigator Multimedia provides web and email hosting, Navigator Multimedia hosts or manages DNS for 255 distinct client websites, 313 distinct client websites have publicly credited Navigator Multimedia in their footers |
| Portion supported | Independently reproducible confirmation, per domain, that a site is on Navigator's DNS or servers. Also shows that footer-link survival badly undercounts hosting (only 53 of the 111 hosted sites still carry the credit). |
| Limitations | DNS shows delegation and resolution, not a commercial relationship. A domain on Navigator's nameservers is almost certainly a managed client; a domain elsewhere may still be a client whose DNS lives with their registrar. |
| How to reproduce | dig NS <domain> and compare to aaden.ns.cloudflare.com / amalia.ns.cloudflare.com |
Recorded results
credited_client_sites_checked: 313 on_navigator_cloudflare_nameservers: 106 on_navigator_origin_ip_with_other_dns: 5 hosted_or_managed_by_navigator: 111 hosted_elsewhere: 144 domain_no_longer_exists: 38 lookup_failed: 19
Notes
The public protocol check that turns "we host it" into something anyone can confirm for any named domain.