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Well, I created my own domain index. I have not crawled every page inside domains, but it is not my goal.

I have 1542766 domains. Might not be much, but it is an honest work.

It is available as a github repo, so anybody that wants to start crawling has some initial data to kick off.

Links

https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

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What a nice project. What inspired this initially?

FYI there's a broken link in your readme:

    https://rumca-js.github.io/internet full internet search

thanks, I replaced it with a other link demo

Cant you just request the ICANN’s zone files and have the canonical list of the day?

Avoiding GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out).

This is why we have computer-variants of Library Science and Archeology, Forensic Science and a bunch of other advanced knowledge (not AI, mind you).

I don't see how this applies as its aggregating a bunch of stuff from random crawlers - if you want to crawl a list of actual domains that's generally considered the list of things that could resolve, so seems like a good starting place.

Smashing stuff together by pure probablistic word association like AI do today is really, tsk tsk.

That's why it is important to clearly define words like love, oh wait.

Any link list, or domain list is not worth much without any rating, or meta. I lead a hobby project, and I am not expert, so I provide ratings based on what kind of data pages provide (title, social, description), and my own manual voting system. It is not ideal, but it is something. Also I provide tags, so it is easily known what the domain provides, or domains can be filtered by tags.

I know that you cannot count and visit every domain, so the list will never be finished, but I am happy with the results.

Well, if you are curating every link them its a different story, and looks like a more classic webring - I missed that part of the work - I thought it looked like a big set of crawler data that wasn't as manually curated.

you can, though you must provide a reason compelling enough to the person maintaining access (I provided a few sentences and was approved for most but maybe 20% of registrars declined my request):

https://czds.icann.org/home

also be prepared for thousands of emails about status changes to your access.

This is amazing. Thanks for sharing!

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