Through this website, we provide information on our project, how our measurement works and how you can reach us if you have questions about using the data for your research.

Latest news

Tue, Jan 5, 2021
OpenINTEL passes 5 trillion results milestone
OpenINTEL has just passed the major milestone of 5 trillion results. We reached this milestone in December 2020, at the end of our fifth full year of operation. Over 2020, we have added ccTLDs and realised a major additional data source with the daily measurement of the full IPv4 reverse DNS namespace. As our sixth year of operation starts, we remain dedicated to our mission of being the long-term memory of the DNS.
Wed, May 20, 2020
ccTLDs for Switzerland and Liechtenstein added to the measurement
With thanks to SWITCH we have added the .ch and .li ccTLDs for Switzerland and Liechtenstein respectively.
Wed, Feb 26, 2020
Major new feature: IPv4 reverse measurements
As of the middle of February 2020, the OpenINTEL measurement has been extended to also cover the entire IPv4 reverse DNS name space. Like our other measurements, this measurement runs once every 24 hours. Using this data we hope to gain new insight into how the address space is managed, and to check, for example, consistency between forward and reverse DNS. This measurement adds an additional 1.1 billion data points per day, a data collection growth of over 45%.

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