We are constantly indexing the latest whois data for our whois category. “Whois” data contains information about domain ownership.
We recently indexed the whois data for October, November, and December 2019 which resulted in 21,168,724 selectors. We analyzed a small sample set (1 day, 2019-11-29) and these are the results:
75% of the data is whois protected, which means that the information about the owner (name, email address, postal address) is not available. Often, that data is simply replaced with “Redacted For Privacy” or other dummy data.
However, the other 25% is not whois protected. Here is a breakdown by registrant country:
When looking at TLDs, there were interestingly no domains from some TLDs like DE and AT. This could be an indicator that the actual number of privacy protected domains might be higher than 75%.
June 2021: New Usenet data category We added the new data category Usenet. It contains historical and current data from Usenet, which is “a worldwide distributed discussion system”. Today, Usenet is mostly used for piracy. This new category stores currently 209,469,453 selectors and is expected to grow substantially. Improved inline statistics We have improved the
Intelligence X supports Peernet – Founder’s Statement I am excited to announce Peernet, a decentralized network that allows sharing of data freely without censorship and restrictions. Here is the pitch deck: https://peernet.org/dl/Peernet%20Deck.pdf Peernet is making quick progress from its inception as I am finalizing the whitepaper and developing the core library. I would like to
February 2021: Launch of the European Internet Archive The European Internet Archive just launched! 🎉🥳 ➡ https://archive.eu/ 225 TLDs added to the list of web crawling We have added 225 top-level domains (TLDs) to the list of web crawling. Find the full list and how we are categorizing them in this blog post. Our dataset