https://github.com/antosser/working-tld-sites
All TLDs with working websites and DNS records
https://github.com/antosser/working-tld-sites
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All TLDs with working websites and DNS records
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/antosser/working-tld-sites
- Owner: Antosser
- Created: 2024-01-03T17:20:59.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-01-04T21:19:41.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-07T18:51:23.557Z (over 1 year ago)
- Topics: dns, domain, tld
- Language: Rust
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- Size: 24.4 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# All TLDs with working websites
I was interested in looping over every single TLD and checking if they have working sites.
This program makes a `GET request` and `DNS lookup` for every TLD and returns the working ones.
## Results (as of 2023-1-3)
### GET requests
The program showed that no TLD returns a webpage and none can be viewed in a browser
### DNS lookups
The results of this one were quite surprising. I found 11 TLDs with attached A or AAAA records, and they were:
```rust
[
("AI", "209.59.119.34"),
("ARAB", "127.0.53.53"),
("CM", "195.24.205.60"),
("MUSIC", "127.0.53.53"),
("TK", "217.119.57.22"),
("UZ", "91.212.89.8"),
("VA", "2a01:b8:0:1:212:77:0:2"),
("WS", "64.70.19.33"),
("XN--L1ACC", "180.149.98.234"),
("XN--MXTQ1M", "127.0.53.53"),
("XN--NGBRX", "127.0.53.53"),
]
```
I entered all IPs into the browser, but the only one that worked as AI, the ccTLD of Anguilla: `209.59.119.34`
The IP address `127.0.53.53` occurred 4 times, which is quite interesting. That is a local IP address, which means that it will only work locally on one machine. But, as described by [this ICANN post](https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-approves-name-collision-occurrence-management-framework--special-ip-address-12705353-alerts-system-administrators-of-potential-issue-1-8-2014-en), it's a special IP address, which, as part of ICANN's Name Collision Occurrence Management Framework, registry operators are required to use for "controlled interruption" to alert system administrators about potential issues in their network when domain name collisions occur.