Companies Using DDoS-Guard
Our August 2026 crawl of 29.9M active business domains finds 90,751 companies using DDoS-Guard for network security and DDoS protection. Below is the full list of companies using DDoS-Guard with market share data, industry breakdowns and geographic distribution.
DDoS-Guard holds a 37.79% share of the WAF & DDoS Protection category, ranking #2 of 18 tracked technologies and sitting just 1,695 domains behind Sucuri. One caveat frames every demographic chart below: we can match a company record to only 11.4% of DDoS-Guard domains, the lowest rate in our index for a service this size. The websites using DDoS-Guard we can identify are concentrated in Russia and the CIS, but the unidentifiable majority is the more telling number.
Published Mar 12, 2026 · Updated Sep 10, 2026 · Data analysed on September 10, 2026.
DDoS-Guard Usage Statistics
How has DDoS-Guard's adoption changed over time? DDoS-Guard entered our detection index in March 2026, so we hold six months of history rather than the company's full record since 2014. Active domains move from 47,319 in June to 90,751 in August 2026. That near-doubling is not adoption: our corpus-wide coverage expanded sharply over the same window, and DDoS-Guard is detected from a single HTTP response header, which means it is found the moment a domain is crawled at all.
The durable finding is churn, or rather its absence. Only 5,336 domains have dropped DDoS-Guard since tracking began, roughly 5.9% of the live base, and, as the switching section explains, essentially none of them turned up at a competitor.
List of Companies Using DDoS-Guard
Which major companies use DDoS-Guard? We match a company record to 10,375 of 90,751 domains, an 11.4% enrichment rate and the lowest in our index for a service of this scale. That gap is the story. For comparable technologies we typically identify 55-70% of domains; here nearly nine in ten have no corporate record in any of our sources.
Among those we can name, the list spans MTS Group (Russia's largest mobile operator), Skyeng (an online education platform), the Higher School of Economics and Hospital de Amor, a Brazilian healthcare nonprofit. Detection URLs show DDoS-Guard fronting corporate portals, job boards and customer-facing sites. But the identifiable cohort is a minority, and it is systematically more legitimate than the whole.
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| Company | Detection URL | Domain | Country | Industry | Employees | Type | Founded | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| anyforany.ru | anyforany.ru | Russia | Restaurants | 1-10 | Privately Held | 2017 | https://linkedin.com/company/anyforany |
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Here are some of the most recognizable companies using DDoS-Guard and brands using DDoS-Guard based on our detection data:
- MTS Group, Russia's largest mobile operator with 10,001+ employees, publicly traded telecommunications company founded in 1993
- Check Point, US-based cybersecurity vendor (5,001-10,000 employees) using DDoS-Guard for Russian operations subdomain
- Skyeng, Cyprus-based online English learning platform (1,001-5,000 employees), publicly traded education technology company
- Hospital de Amor, Brazilian nonprofit healthcare organization (1,001-5,000 employees) founded in 1962
- Higher School of Economics (HSE), Russian educational institution with 5,001-10,000 employees
This mix of telecommunications, cybersecurity, education, and healthcare organizations demonstrates DDoS-Guard's cross-industry adoption, though the presence of Russian-focused operations is notable., per our analysis of 5,283 enriched companies at TechnologyChecker.io.
Which Countries Use DDoS-Guard the Most?
Which countries use DDoS-Guard the most? Among the 10,375 companies we can identify, Russia dominates with 3,252 organisations (31.3%), more than four times the United States at 697. The United Arab Emirates (454) ranks third. Former Soviet states add materially to the total: Kazakhstan (296), Belarus (234), Uzbekistan (135) and Armenia (129) together account for a further 7.7%, so Russia and the CIS make up roughly 39% of identifiable customers.
Western Europe is present but thin: the United Kingdom (232), Germany (134), Cyprus (117), Spain (110), France (101) and Poland (87). This distribution follows DDoS-Guard's Russian ownership and data-centre footprint, and the UAE and Cyprus entries are consistent with jurisdictions commonly used by Russian-linked corporate structures.
Share of the 10,375 DDoS-Guard domains we matched to a company record — 11.4% of the 90,751 we detect. Top 15 countries shown, so these do not sum to 100%. Domains with no matching company record are not represented here and skew small and independent.
DDoS-Guard Market Share Among WAF & DDoS Protection
What is DDoS-Guard's market share? DDoS-Guard holds 37.79% of the WAF & DDoS Protection category on 90,751 domains, ranking #2 of 18 tracked technologies. The gap to first place is remarkably narrow: Sucuri leads with 92,446 domains (38.49%), just 1,695 ahead. Together the two hold more than three-quarters of the category. Imperva (28,846, 12.01%) is a distant third, followed by Akamai Web Application Protector (13,510, 5.63%) and SiteLock (5,177, 2.16%).
Note that this category measures reverse-proxy and edge protection services, which a site can generally run only one of. That exclusivity, discussed below, is what makes the share figures here behave differently from plugin-based security categories.
Top Competitors by Market Share
DDoS-Guard Customers by Company Size & Age
What size companies use DDoS-Guard? 49.37% of identifiable DDoS-Guard customers employ 1-10 people, with another 31.58% in the 11-50 range, so roughly 81% sit under 50 employees. Mid-sized companies (51-200) represent 11.66%, and organisations with 10,001+ employees just 0.33% (33 companies).
Read this against the 11.4% enrichment rate. The companies we can name skew small, and the 88.6% we cannot name are overwhelmingly domains with no corporate record anywhere, which is itself the most informative fact about this customer base.
Company Size Distribution
Company Age (Founded Decade)
When were DDoS-Guard's customers founded? 47.38% were founded in the 2010s and a further 27.83% in the 2020s, so roughly 75% of identifiable customers are under fifteen years old. Companies founded in the 2000s account for 16.4% and 1990s-era firms for 6.83%. Organisations predating 1990 total under 1.6%.
This is a digital-native customer base with limited security budgets, choosing functional protection over enterprise features and vendor pedigree.
What Industries Use DDoS-Guard the Most?
Which industries use DDoS-Guard the most? The distribution is fragmented, with no vertical above 9%. IT Services and IT Consulting leads at 8.81%, followed by Business Consulting and Services (5.39%), Advertising Services (4.90%), Software Development (3.86%) and Technology, Information and Internet (3.76%). Technology-related sectors together account for roughly 18.7% of identifiable customers.
Marketing Services (2.80%), Education (2.28%) and Staffing and Recruiting (1.89%) complete the top ten. The weighting toward IT and consulting firms suggests technical buyers who evaluate DDoS protection on price and capability rather than brand.
DDoS-Guard Alternatives & Competitors
What are the top DDoS-Guard alternatives? The WAF & DDoS Protection category is a duopoly by footprint. Sucuri (92,446 domains, 38.49%) and DDoS-Guard (90,751, 37.79%) are separated by just 1,695 domains and together hold more than three-quarters of the category. Imperva (28,846, 12.01%) serves enterprise buyers, Akamai Web Application Protector (13,510, 5.63%) the largest infrastructures, and SiteLock (5,177, 2.16%) the shared-hosting market. Variti (3,635, 1.51%) is the other Russian-market option.
These are true alternatives rather than complements, and our data shows it: DDoS-Guard co-occurs with each of them on well under 0.1% of its domains. A site routes its traffic through one edge provider, not several.
| Technology | Domains | Market Share |
|---|---|---|
 | 92,446 | 38.49% |
 | 28,846 | 12.01% |
 | 13,510 | 5.63% |
 | 5,177 | 2.16% |
 | 3,635 | 1.51% |
Tech Stack of DDoS-Guard-Powered Websites
What technologies do DDoS-Guard customers typically use? The co-occurrence data is the most reliable signal on this page, since it does not depend on company enrichment, and it describes a distinctly Russian-market web. Tilda, the Russian website builder, appears on 46.02% of DDoS-Guard domains and Yandex.Metrika on 45.23%, both an order of magnitude above their global rates. Google Analytics reaches just 17%, less than half Yandex's share, an inversion we see on almost nothing else we track.
WordPress follows at 23.38%, with 1C-Bitrix (2.03%), the Russian enterprise CMS, and Top.Mail.Ru analytics (8.71%) reinforcing the regional picture. On hosting, REG.RU accounts for 17.04% against GoDaddy's 1.90%. Front-end frameworks are sparse, led by Alpine.js at 10.58%, consistent with a base of brochure sites and small portals rather than applications.
CMS & Website Builders
Web Analytics
JavaScript Frameworks
DDoS-Guard Customer Reviews with Pros and Cons
Independent review coverage of DDoS-Guard is thin, and we would rather note that than manufacture a sentiment summary from a handful of entries. Buyers evaluating the service should weigh its documented pricing and regional infrastructure advantages against the reputational considerations discussed in its coverage.
Generated from real user reviews on G2
- Users consistently praise the product for its high-level service and effective protection against DDoS attacks, noting that it is easy to use and backed by responsive support.
- Many appreciate the straightforward deployment and the ability to handle high traffic volumes.
- However, some users mention a common limitation regarding the lack of support for multiple IP addresses.
Expert Analysis: DDoS-Guard Growth Trends & Key Signals for Sales Teams in 2026
Our August 2026 crawl detects DDoS-Guard on 90,751 active domains, making it the second-largest WAF and DDoS protection service in our index, 1,695 domains behind Sucuri. We can match a company record to only 10,375 of them, an 11.4% enrichment rate that is the lowest in our index at this scale and the first thing worth explaining.
The 88.6% We Cannot Identify
For comparable technologies we typically attach a company to 55-70% of detected domains. For DDoS-Guard it is roughly one in nine. That is not a gap in our data so much as a description of the customer base.
DDoS-Guard sells edge protection to operators who want traffic filtered and origin servers hidden. A large share of the domains behind that service have no LinkedIn presence, no corporate registration we can match and no public company identity of any kind. Some of that is ordinary: small Russian-market sites are under-represented in Western business records. Some of it is the reason the company has attracted scrutiny for the content it fronts. Both are true, and the enrichment rate cannot separate them.
The practical consequence is that the size, industry and country charts on this page describe the identifiable minority, and that minority is systematically more conventional than the whole.
"An enrichment rate this low is a finding, not a defect. When we can name one customer in nine, the honest thing is to publish the charts with that caveat attached rather than present a picture of the tenth as if it were the whole."
- Emma Davies, Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker.io
A Two-Horse Category
Sucuri (92,446 domains) and DDoS-Guard (90,751) are separated by 1,695 domains and together account for more than three-quarters of the WAF and DDoS Protection category. Imperva (28,846) is under a third of either.
What makes this category behave unlike the rest of our security coverage is exclusivity. These are reverse-proxy services: traffic is routed through one provider's edge, and a site cannot meaningfully run two. Our co-occurrence data confirms it, with DDoS-Guard appearing alongside each named competitor on well under 0.1% of its domains. In plugin-based security categories, products stack freely and share figures overlap; here they are close to mutually exclusive, which makes the near-tie with Sucuri a genuine split of the market rather than an artefact of double counting.
Nobody Switches, Because There Is Nowhere Visible to Go
We publish switching corridors only where the flow beats the rate among domains that stayed. DDoS-Guard has none, and the result is unusually stark: across every competitor in the category, the number of departing DDoS-Guard domains that turned up at a named rival was zero or in single digits, against 5,336 domains that dropped the service altogether.
Two explanations fit. The first is the exclusivity above: because a domain cannot run two edge providers, a migration produces a clean handover we should see, and we do not. The second is more likely given the population. Domains that leave DDoS-Guard largely stop resolving or stop being crawlable at all, rather than reappearing behind a competitor. For a service whose customer base is 88.6% unidentifiable, sites going dark is a more plausible exit than sites shopping for a better WAF.
"Zero corridors to every competitor in the category is not a sign of loyalty. It means the domains leaving are not arriving anywhere we can see. For most products that would be a measurement problem. Here it is probably the answer."
- Mehmet Suleyman, CEO & Co-founder at TechnologyChecker.io
A Russian-Market Web
The technology stack around DDoS-Guard is the most regionally distinctive in our index. Yandex.Metrika appears on 45.23% of its domains against Google Analytics on 17%. We track very few technologies where Yandex outranks Google Analytics at all, let alone by more than two to one. Tilda, the Russian site builder, is on 46.02%, ahead of WordPress at 23.38%. REG.RU handles 17.04% of hosting against GoDaddy's 1.90%, and 1C-Bitrix and Top.Mail.Ru both appear at rates that would be rounding errors anywhere else.
This is a coherent, self-contained ecosystem. The customers here are not choosing DDoS-Guard over Cloudflare on price; they are operating inside a technology stack in which Cloudflare was never the default.
Customer Profile
Among identifiable companies, 49.37% have 1-10 employees and 31.58% have 11-50, so about 81% sit under fifty people. Russia accounts for 3,252 companies (31.3%), more than four times the United States at 697, and Russia plus the CIS reaches roughly 39%. By founding decade, 47.38% started in the 2010s and 27.83% in the 2020s.
The named exceptions are worth noting precisely because they are exceptions: MTS Group, Skyeng and the Higher School of Economics are substantial organisations, and they are almost all operating in or serving the Russian market.
Key Takeaways
1. Only 11.4% of DDoS-Guard domains match a company record, the lowest rate in our index at this scale. Every demographic chart describes that minority.
2. The category is a two-horse race. Sucuri and DDoS-Guard are 1,695 domains apart and hold over three-quarters of it between them.
3. Edge protection is mutually exclusive. DDoS-Guard co-occurs with named competitors on under 0.1% of domains, unlike stackable plugin security.
4. Zero switching corridors to any competitor. Departing domains go dark rather than reappearing behind a rival.
5. Yandex.Metrika (45.23%) outranks Google Analytics (17%), and Tilda (46.02%) outranks WordPress. This is a self-contained Russian-market stack.
6. Russia and the CIS are roughly 39% of identifiable customers, with the UAE and Cyprus also present.
Sales Applications
Targeting strategy: Treat any list derived from this page as a sample rather than a census. The identifiable cohort skews toward Russian and CIS IT services and consulting firms at 1-50 employees.
Competitive angle: DDoS-Guard's customers are not price-shopping against Cloudflare; they are inside a stack where Yandex, Tilda and REG.RU are the defaults. Displacing it is a question of regional infrastructure and payment rails, not feature comparison.
For the full breakdown of all 90,751 DDoS-Guard domains and their enriched firmographic profiles, explore our dataset at TechnologyChecker.io.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who uses DDoS-Guard?
We detect DDoS-Guard on 90,751 domains, including Anyforany. A detection means the technology is present on that domain, which for large organisations is often a single storefront or subdomain rather than a company-wide deployment. Among domains we matched to a company with a resolved industry, the most common is IT Services and IT Consulting (8.81%).
How many customers does DDoS-Guard have?
We detect 90,751 domains running DDoS-Guard across our monthly crawl of live business domains. Company data could be matched for 10,375 of them (11.4%), and every company-size, industry and country breakdown on this page describes that matched subset rather than the full detected base. A further 5,336 domains carried a DDoS-Guard detection previously and no longer do.
What is DDoS-Guard's market share?
DDoS-Guard holds 37.79% of the WAF & DDoS Protection category, ranking #2. This is a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category — not a share of all websites, and not a share of spending — so it is not directly comparable to figures published on other denominators.
What are the best alternatives to DDoS-Guard?
By detected domains the category is led by Sucuri (92,446), then DDoS-Guard itself (90,751), Imperva (28,846), Akamai Web Application Protector (13,510) and SiteLock (5,177). Each targets a different buyer: Imperva and Akamai serve enterprises, SiteLock the shared-hosting market, and Variti (3,635) the Russian market. Because these are reverse-proxy services, a site runs one and not several, so switching means a full handover rather than adding a second tool.
Which countries use DDoS-Guard the most?
Among the 10,375 companies we can identify, Russia leads with 3,252 (31.3%), more than four times the United States at 697. The United Arab Emirates (454) ranks third, and former Soviet states add a further 7.7% through Kazakhstan (296), Belarus (234), Uzbekistan (135) and Armenia (129). Russia and the CIS together account for roughly 39% of identifiable customers.
What size companies use DDoS-Guard?
The most common company size is 1-10 employees, representing 49.37% of the DDoS-Guard domains we could match to a company record and size — a subset of 10,375 matched companies, not of all 90,751 detected domains. This is followed by 11-50 employees (31.58%) and 51-200 employees (11.66%).
How old are companies that use DDoS-Guard?
Among identifiable customers, 47.38% were founded in the 2010s and 27.83% in the 2020s, so about 75% are under fifteen years old. Companies founded in the 2000s account for 16.4% and 1990s-era firms for 6.83%, with organisations predating 1990 totalling under 1.6%.
What is the ideal customer profile for DDoS-Guard?
The ideal DDoS-Guard customer is: Company Size: 1-10 employees (49.4%), Top Industry: IT Services & Consulting (8.8%), Primary Geography: Russia (31.3%), Company Age: Founded in 2010s (47.4%), Tech Stack: Tilda + Yandex.Metrika — based on our analysis of 10,375 enriched companies at TechnologyChecker.io.
Why do I have DDoS-Guard protection on my website?
DDoS-Guard usually appears because your hosting provider or a previous developer routed the domain through it, not because you subscribed directly. It works as a reverse proxy, so traffic passes through its edge before reaching your origin server. Our August 2026 crawl detects it on 90,751 domains, and among identifiable customers 49.37% are businesses with 1-10 employees, the size band most likely to inherit infrastructure decisions from a host or agency.
Who needs DDoS protection like DDoS-Guard?
Any public-facing site that would lose revenue or reputation from being knocked offline, particularly ecommerce, gaming, media and financial services. Among identifiable DDoS-Guard customers, IT Services and IT Consulting leads at 8.81%, followed by Business Consulting (5.39%), Advertising Services (4.90%) and Software Development (3.86%), which suggests technical buyers protecting client-facing infrastructure rather than a single vertical with unusual exposure.
Is DDoS-Guard safe to use for my website?
Technically it functions as intended: it filters traffic and masks your origin IP, and our crawl detects it on 90,751 active domains including MTS Group, Skyeng and the Higher School of Economics. The consideration is reputational rather than technical. DDoS-Guard has drawn sustained scrutiny for the content it has fronted, and we can match a company record to only 11.4% of its domains, the lowest rate in our index at this scale. Organisations in regulated industries or with Western enterprise customers should weigh that carefully.
What companies use DDoS-Guard for security?
Our August 2026 crawl detects DDoS-Guard on 90,751 active domains, but we can match a company record to only 10,375 of them, an 11.4% enrichment rate that is the lowest in our index at this scale. Among those we can identify, notable names include MTS Group (Russia's largest mobile operator), Skyeng, the Higher School of Economics and Hospital de Amor. The identifiable minority is systematically more conventional than the base as a whole.
How much does DDoS-Guard cost compared to competitors?
DDoS-Guard positions on price against Western providers, and its customer profile reflects that: among identifiable customers, 49.37% have 1-10 employees and 31.58% have 11-50. But cost is not the whole explanation. Its domains run Yandex.Metrika (45.23%) over Google Analytics (17%) and Tilda (46.02%) over WordPress, which indicates a customer base operating inside a Russian-market stack where Western providers were never the default rather than one that comparison-shopped and chose the cheaper option.
How does DDoS-Guard compare to Cloudflare DDoS protection?
Both operate as reverse proxies that filter traffic before it reaches your origin, and a site runs one or the other rather than both. Cloudflare is far larger globally and bundles a broader CDN and developer platform. DDoS-Guard's base is regionally specific: Russia and the CIS account for roughly 39% of its identifiable customers, and its domains run Yandex.Metrika (45.23%) over Google Analytics (17%) and Tilda (46.02%) over WordPress. The choice is usually about regional infrastructure and payment rails rather than feature comparison.
Is DDoS-Guard still used and relevant in 2026?
Yes. Our August 2026 crawl detects it on 90,751 active domains, making it the second-largest WAF and DDoS protection service in our index, just 1,695 domains behind Sucuri, and the two together hold more than three-quarters of the category. Only 5,336 domains have dropped it since March 2026, about 5.9% of the live base.
What size companies typically use DDoS-Guard?
Among identifiable customers, 49.37% have 1-10 employees and 31.58% have 11-50, so roughly 81% sit under 50 people. Mid-sized firms (51-200) account for 11.66% and organisations with 10,001+ employees for just 0.33%. Note that we can attach a company record to only 11.4% of DDoS-Guard domains, so this describes the identifiable minority.
Can DDoS-Guard protect my WordPress site?
Yes, DDoS-Guard provides network-level DDoS protection that works with WordPress and any other CMS platform. However, our migration data shows 75 customers switched to DDoS-Guard specifically from Wordfence, a WordPress-specialized security plugin, suggesting some WordPress users prefer broader platform protection. Technology stack analysis reveals DDoS-Guard customers more commonly use Tilda (75.8% overlap), the Russian website builder, rather than WordPress. For WordPress-specific threats like brute force login attacks and malware, Wordfence (103,590 domains, 1.18% market share) offers deeper WordPress integration than DDoS-Guard's network-layer approach.
What happens if I remove DDoS-Guard from my site?
Traffic stops routing through DDoS-Guard's edge and resolves directly to your origin server, which exposes its IP address and removes filtering. You would normally move to another provider in the same operation. Our data shows 5,336 domains have dropped DDoS-Guard since March 2026, and notably almost none of them appear at a named competitor afterwards, which suggests most stopped being publicly reachable rather than migrating.
Does DDoS-Guard work with Google Analytics and marketing tools?
Yes, though its customers largely use different tools. Google Analytics appears on just 17% of DDoS-Guard domains, while Yandex.Metrika reaches 45.23% and Top.Mail.Ru a further 8.71%. That inversion is close to unique in our index and reflects a Russian-market stack in which Yandex, not Google, is the analytics default. DDoS-Guard operates as a reverse proxy and does not interfere with client-side tags.
Why are so many DDoS-Guard customers based in Russia?
DDoS-Guard is a Russian company with its data-centre footprint and commercial relationships concentrated there, so Russia accounts for 31.3% of identifiable customers and the CIS a further 7.7%. The deeper reason shows in the technology stack: Tilda appears on 46.02% of its domains and Yandex.Metrika on 45.23%, both far above global rates. These customers sit inside an ecosystem where Western defaults like Cloudflare and Google Analytics were never the standard choice.
Based on 10,375 company data
These insights include all TechnologyChecker.io detections of DDoS-Guard (free & paid plans).