Preview. This page is drawing a sample slice of the census while the first full generation is built. Every number is real; the coverage is not yet the whole internet.
0/8 The whole IPv4 space · zoom for /24s 255/8
Occupancy , IPv4 · Hilbert curve: 0/8 top-left, adjacent blocks stay adjacent
Where the internet actually lives.
Other maps draw the plumbing — who announces which addresses. This one draws occupancy : which addresses host the nameservers and websites of the domains in 1,074 top-level zones, who runs them, and where. Read every day from the zone files. Nothing is scanned.
Nameserversdaily · IPv4
WebA records · ~6 weeks
IPv6web AAAA
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Under the cursor · move over the map
Click any block, or look one up below.
— inhabited /24s hold every nameserver in this generation
— networks announce them
— of domains with every nameserver's IPv4 address known
35 /8s reserved or multicast, hatched: never inhabited
Blast radius
If one network vanished, what share of the domains we can fully see would go dark? A domain counts only when every one of its servers sits in that network.
Nameservers Web
Honest by construction. Network and country are who announces a block and where it is registered , never where a server stands. A location is shown only when a cloud provider publishes one region for every occupied address; anycast and global ranges are “not a place”. Counts are domain–prefix incidences. No address is ever probed: everything comes from zone files, the census's own resolution, and public routing and registry data (iptoasn PDDL, the five RIRs, providers' published ranges). How it is counted →
View: Atlas (light) Observatory (dark)
A dnscensus.org project · data at data.ipcensus.org · instruments at dns.pizza