How did Alexa find the domains?
ID: cia-2010-covert-communication-websites/how-did-alexa-find-the-domains
CIA 2010 covert communication websites How did Alexa find the domains? by
Ciro Santilli 36 Updated 2025-04-24 +Created 1970-01-01
It can't be HTML crawl because presumably there wouldn't have been links to those websites? Presumably this is why Common Crawl doesn't seem to have any hits.
The same question also applies to the 2013 DNS Census. It has less hits, but still has many.
Whatever they did, we are so so glad that they did!
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