I tracked 677k newly launched websites in November. Here's the breakdown (opens in new tab)

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2 pointsantiochIst3mo ago6 comments

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I 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.

fallinditch3mo ago

81,608 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?

antiochIstOP3mo ago

I don't know if drop shipping is still viable, but there are lots of those types of sites so...

ChrisArchitect3mo ago

Kind 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?

antiochIstOP3mo ago

I 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.

basilikum3mo ago

> Data is collected through automated discovery, domain registration monitoring, and continuous scanning.

Does this contain CT logs?

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antiochIstOP3mo ago

I 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.

fallinditch3mo ago

81,608 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?

antiochIstOP3mo ago

I don't know if drop shipping is still viable, but there are lots of those types of sites so...

ChrisArchitect3mo ago

Kind 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?

antiochIstOP3mo ago

I 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.

basilikum3mo ago

> Data is collected through automated discovery, domain registration monitoring, and continuous scanning.

Does this contain CT logs?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse