DNS Census 2013

January 01, 2014

Another security related “bigdata” release. The DNS Census is an anonymous public release of DNS data. The person behind this claimed they were inspired by the Internet Census.

Some stats:

  • 2.5B DNS records
  • ~106M unique domain names
  • Most DNS RR types are represented (A/AAAA/CNAME/DNAME/MX/NS/SOA/TXT)
  • 15 GB compressed
  • 157 GB uncompressed
  • Available as a torrent

–Jason