I tracked 677k newly launched websites in November. Here's the breakdown (websitelaunches.com)

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.

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?

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

Does this contain CT logs?