Netcraft

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Netcraft Ltd
Type Private
Founded 1995
Headquarters Flag of England Bath, England
Area served UK, USA, Mainland Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific, Latin America
Key people Mike Prettejohn, Director
Services Internet Security Services, Internet Data Mining, Internet Exploration
Website http://www.netcraft.com
Available in English

Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England.

Netcraft provides webserver and webhosting market-share analysis, including web server and operating system detection. In some cases, depending on the queried server's operating system, their service is able to monitor uptimes[1]; uptime performance monitoring is a commonly used factor in determining the reliability of a web hosting provider[2].

Netcraft also provides security testing, and publishes news releases about the state of various networks that make up the Internet. These news releases and statistics are widely referred to and considered relevant by the technology and Internet press[3], and the company is listed as a news outlet on Google News and Yahoo News[4][5]. In late October 2006, Netcraft identified 100 million Web sites with domain names and content on them, of which 47 to 48 percent represented active sites.

The company is famous for its free anti-phishing toolbar for the Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers. Starting with the upcoming version 9.5, the built-in anti-phishing filter in the Opera browser will be using the same data as Netcraft's toolbar, eliminating the need for a separately installed toolbar. A study commissioned by Microsoft concluded that Netcraft's toolbar was among the most effective tools to combat phishing on the Internet, although this has since been superseded by Microsoft's own Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 RC3 with Microsoft Phishing Filter[6], possibly as a result of licensing Netcraft's data.[7]

Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, and co-founder of 3com, pronounced Netcraft "cool", while Tim O'Reilly called www.netcraft.com the best known example of a site devoted to tracking technology on the Internet.[8]

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[edit] Clients

Netcraft has a cosmopolitan client list, spread through the UK, the USA, mainland Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America.

Clients include Aegon, British Telecom, Capita, John Lewis, Lloyds of London, Microsoft, Opera Software, Rackspace, and Securicor.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Hosting Providers Network Performance. Retrieved on 2007-02-18.
  2. ^ The Best Web Hosting Companies. Retrieved on 2008-01-24.
  3. ^ Slashdot Search for 'netcraft'. Retrieved on 2007-01-02.
  4. ^ Google News search for 'Netcraft'. Retrieved on 2007-01-02.
  5. ^ Yahoo News search for 'Netcraft'. Retrieved on 2007-01-02.
  6. ^ 3Sharp Study finds Internet Explorer 7 Edges Out Netcraft As Most Accurate for Anti-Phishing Protection. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
  7. ^ Netcraft Phishing Feed To Protect Microsoft Customers. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
  8. ^ About Netcraft. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.

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