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I tracked 677k newly launched websites in November. Here's the breakdown
- antiochIst 10mo agoI run a system that tracks newly launched websites worldwide. In November it detected 677,544 new sites across 392 countries. Some findings from the dataset: Geography (top countries): United States: 253,589 India: 34,127 Canada: 20,263 United Kingdom: 18,701 Pakistan: 10,124 (392 total countries) Industries: E-commerce: 164,010 Adult & Gambling: large category overall Gambling (L2): 84,353 News & Blogs: 49,424 SaaS products: 39,105 Niches (L3): Online Casinos: 81,608 Clothing: 33,553 Niche SaaS tools: 31,881 Home Decor: 31,273 News & Journalism: 29,750 Platforms (detected on ~295k sites): WordPress: 116,250 Shopify: 84,407 WooCommerce: 42,615 Squarespace: 25,328 Wix: 23,598 Webflow: 3,049 TLDs: .com: 435,622 .store: 38,223 .org: 26,474 .online: 23,422 .site: 22,919 .ai: 6,167 Happy to answer questions about methodology, accuracy, crawling, classification, or detection heuristics.
- fallinditch 10mo ago81,608 new online casinos in one month! Presumably most of these are affiliate sites funneling new players. And 164,010 new e-commerce sites. Does this mean that drop shipping is still a viable business?
- antiochIst 10mo agoI don't know if drop shipping is still viable, but there are lots of those types of sites so...
- ChrisArchitect 10mo agoKind of a weird thing to track. The numbers just seem so large. 80k new gambling sites? How many of all the blogs are just 'blogspam'? Guess that doesn't matter right. What defines a 'launch'? New domain registrations? Content being deployed?
- antiochIst 10mo agoI have a bunch of heuristics - but broadly speaking a new domain + a new good looking site. ie: some legit pages, legit socials, and some real owner/purpose behind it.
- basilikum 10mo ago> Data is collected through automated discovery, domain registration monitoring, and continuous scanning. Does this contain CT logs?