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Looking for a Netcraft alternative?

Here is what Netcraft is good at, what DomainDrift does, and how to tell which one your problem needs. Sometimes the answer is to stay where you are, and this page says so.

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What Netcraft is good at

Three decades of internet survey work, with well-known research on web server and hosting-provider share, plus a substantial anti-phishing and takedown practice.

Choose it when: Phishing detection and takedown, and long-run survey research on how the web is hosted.

What DomainDrift adds

A per-domain record you can act on: your domains re-read continuously, alerts on material change, and a signed history you can export.

When to stay where you are

Your problem is phishing and takedown. That is specialist operational work with a human process behind it, and it is not what we do.

What this page does not claim. It describes what Netcraft is known for at a category level, and says nothing about their pricing or their feature set, because those change without telling us and we will not publish a number about someone else's product that we cannot stand behind. Everything stated about DomainDrift is checkable: start with a receipt.

DomainDrift is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Netcraft. Netcraft and all other product names on this page are trademarks of their respective owners, used here only to identify those products.

CONTINUOUS INTERNET TELEMETRY24H DRIFT30,030 material changesacross 23,472 domains · 24h to ~2h agoROTATION57 domains moved DNS from magpiedns.com to koaladns.com, 50 moved backa rotation loop, not a migration · 24hCERT DRIFT1 domains switched issuing CA24hREGISTRAR DRIFT3 changed registrar24hNOW604 curated domains not reachablelast probe, steadySITE ERRORS17,403 sites serving errorslast probe · 5xx / 404 / TLSBOT DEFENSEbot defense observed on 79,521 sites429 rate-limit / 403 bot-block, a posture signal