Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related domain names

I recently decided to compile a very large list of domain names for the German country code top-level domain .de. I did this with the help of the Common Crawl project which provides a free, open repository of web crawl data and web graphs for the last years. A few command line commands and a small bash shell script was all it took to compile a nice list of roughly 9 million .de domain names. 💡 If you want to know more about how exactly I compiled the domain name list, just let me know and I might write about it in another blog post. The resulting list is by no means complete and also not up-to-date, but it can be a nice starting point for further analysis and investigations. One of which I am going to write about in this post. Enter the restaurant world I was interested in domain names that belonged to restaurants and eating places in general. A simple but quite effective way to achieve this was to filter the domain names by German words that indicate such eating places: Restaura ... Read full article.