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To be clear, they said "web servers" not "websites". They just pulled a list of all public IP blocks registered to the country and opened port 80/443 on each IP
by treesknees 4y ago
To be clear, they said "web servers" not "websites". They just pulled a list of all public IP blocks registered to the country and opened port 80/443 on each IP address and took a screenshot. It's by no means a list of the websites hosted on those servers.
You could get somewhat closer by inspecting public DNS records for those IP addresses and then attempting to load each site by DNS name, but it still wouldn't be a complete index of all websites in the country. I'm thinking that's impossible to collect, or at least very nearly.