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dai.googlevideo.com

DNSSEC⚠️ Not signed
NSns1.google.com ⭐
A2001:4860:4802:32::aπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Google2001:4860::/32
PTRns1.google.com
A216.239.32.10πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Google216.239.32.0/24
PTRns1.google.com
SOAns1.google.comdns-admin@google.com serial=961355711

googlevideo.com

WOT: SAFE (66/100)
rank #86999 globally
rank #40893 in the tld
Semrush Rank:#3,969,468 Keywords:10 Traffic:83/mo
WOT: SAFE (87/100)
πŸ“ˆ Tranco rank: #20
googlevideo.com - Tranco Rank (30d: β†’Β±0)19202122Jun 28Jul 8Jul 18Jul 28Aug 6Rank#20#20

YouTube Video CDN Domain

googlevideo.com is Google's dedicated content delivery network (CDN) domain for streaming YouTube videos. When users watch videos on youtube.com, the actual video content is served from servers under the *.googlevideo.com domain.

How It Works

  • YouTube's web frontend returns HTML containing links to specific cache servers (e.g.,r4---sn-4g5e6nsd.googlevideo.com)
  • The googlevideo.com infrastructure handles the actual video stream delivery
  • Key subdomains include:

- manifest.googlevideo.com - video manifest and metadata delivery - redirector.googlevideo.com - traffic routing to optimal servers - Regional nodes - thousands of geographically distributed servers

Infrastructure

The domain encompasses 18,000+ documented hostnames distributed globally through Google's Edge CDN, which includes Google Global Cache (GGC) infrastructure deployed within ISP partner networks. This extensive network spans 3,000+ locations worldwide, ensuring low-latency video delivery to viewers regardless of their geographic location.

Notable Facts

  • Used by YouTube downloaders to obtain direct video URLs
  • Part of the same infrastructure serving other Google media services
  • Server naming conventions (likesn-npoe7ney) indicate geographic and network topology information

Same first word

Similar names

DNS History

1 record (1 active, 0 former)

NSns1.google.com
●NSns1.google.com2026-07-19 β†’ 2026-08-09 Β· 2 obs
● 2026-07-19 19:35:28
● 2026-08-09 03:14:24

πŸ” DNS Trace

πŸ“‹ Delegation Chain

ZoneNameserversGlue
comf.gtld-servers.net, h.gtld-servers.net, i.gtld-servers.net, j.gtld-servers.net...-
googlevideo.comns2.google.com, ns1.google.com, ns3.google.com, ns4.google.com8 records

βœ… Authoritative Response

Server:216.239.38.10

NS records: ns2.google.com, ns1.google.com, ns3.google.com, ns4.google.com

πŸ”’ DNSSEC Status

⚠️ Insecure (no DNSSEC)

No DS record for googlevideo.com (unsigned zone)

⏱️ Timing

Total: 182ms | Queries: -

πŸ“„ Records

TypeCountSample Data
SOA1ns1.google.com dns-admin.google.com

πŸ“Œ Glue Records Collected

Total: 8

Out-of-bailiwick: 8 (ns2.google.com, ns2.google.com, ns1.google.com...)

Analysis

Name Servers

There is only one name server handling the delegation for dai.googlevideo.com, and that is ns1.google.com.

dai.googlevideo.com shares its NS records with other domains, for example c.android.clients.google.com, a1.googlevideo.com, lucky31.online and two others.

dai.googlevideo.com has at least partial name server overlap with other domains, such as youtube.com.jo, mecompare.com, oogle.co and two others.

These name servers tend to appear together with the name servers ns2.google.com, ns3.google.com and ns4.google.com.

ns1.google.com has two IP addresses: 216.239.32.10 and 2001:4860:4802:32::a.