Realurls

British Broadcasting Corporation

Also known as bbc. Wikidata Q9531.

Official domains: bbc.co.uk bbc.com

Identity anchored by wikidata:Q9531/P856. Display name from wikidata:Q9531.

bbc.co.uk verified primary · confidence 0.78 · verified 2026-09-06

1 independent anchor(s) + 3 independent corroboration(s): meets the verified threshold

EvidenceWhat it shows
A1 not counted GitHub verified this organization's domain (DNS-level check performed by GitHub)
org=bbc org_verified=true blog=https://bbc.co.uk/opensource/
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A3 not counted Corporate registrar fingerprint (brand-protection registrar, long prepaid term, registry locks)
registrar=British Broadcasting Corporation created=1994-12-13 expires=2034-12-13 remaining_days=3019 locks=["server delete","server update","server transfer"]
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A4 anchor TLS certificate carries the organization name (OV/EV)
subject_org=BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION validation_type=OV issuer=GlobalSign nv-sa san_count=22
 TLS handshake bbc.co.uk:443
B1 corroboration Wikidata official-website claim (P856) on the anchored item
qid=Q9531 label=British Broadcasting Corporation kind=organization site=https://bbc.co.uk sitelinks=149 competing_items=2
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B5 corroboration Tranco top-1M ranking
rank=224 source=top-1m list
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B4 corroboration Wayback Machine history
first_snapshot=1996-12-21 history_days=10851
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2 piece(s) of evidence not counted — why
  • A1: entity not anchored: no canonical GitHub organization from an independent authority; proof of control is not proof of ownership
  • A3: registrar (British Broadcasting Corporation) is not a brand-protection registrar
Reproduce this yourself
# A3 — registrar / dates / locks
curl -sL https://rdap.org/domain/bbc.co.uk | jq '{status, events, registrar: [.entities[]|select(.roles[]=="registrar")|.vcardArray[1][1][3]]}'

# B1 — Wikidata P856
curl -s "https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetclaims&entity=Q9531&property=P856&format=json"

# B5 — Tranco rank
curl -s https://tranco-list.eu/api/ranks/domain/bbc.co.uk

# B4 — first Wayback snapshot
curl -s "http://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=bbc.co.uk&limit=1&output=json"

# Re-run the whole pipeline for this domain
git clone https://github.com/zhouchungong/realurls-registry && cd realurls-registry && pip install -e . && python -m src.verify bbc.co.uk

bbc.com verified product · confidence 0.92 · verified 2026-09-06

2 independent anchor(s) + 3 independent corroboration(s): meets the verified threshold

EvidenceWhat it shows
A9 not counted App Store history: an established app by an Apple-verified company named like the entity, seller URL points here
app=BBC: World News & Stories track_id=364147881 seller=BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. artist=BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. seller_url=http://www.bbc.com released=2010-04-01 age_days=6001 ratings=85948 apps_for_domain=1 apps=[{"app":"BBC: World News & Stories","seller":"BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.","released":"2010-04-01","age_days":6001,"ratings":85948}]
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A3 not counted Corporate registrar fingerprint (brand-protection registrar, long prepaid term, registry locks)
registrar=Tucows Domains Inc. created=1989-07-15 expires=2030-07-14 remaining_days=1406 locks=["transfer","update","server delete","server transfer"]
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A4 anchor TLS certificate carries the organization name (OV/EV)
subject_org=BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION validation_type=OV issuer=GlobalSign nv-sa san_count=22
 TLS handshake bbc.com:443
B1 corroboration Wikidata official-website claim (P856) on the anchored item
qid=Q9531 label=British Broadcasting Corporation kind=organization site=https://bbc.com sitelinks=149 competing_items=1
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B5 corroboration Tranco top-1M ranking
rank=211 source=top-1m list
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B4 corroboration Wayback Machine history
first_snapshot=2000-03-01 history_days=9685
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A6 anchor Propagated from a verified sibling domain (first-party link + shared infrastructure)
from=bbc.co.uk from_status=verified first_party_link=true structural_links=["shared_ns","cert_san"] san_count=22 shared_ns=["ddns0.bbc.co.uk","ddns0.bbc.com","ddns1.bbc.co.uk","ddns1.bbc.com"] backlink=true
 propagate from bbc.co.uk
2 piece(s) of evidence not counted — why
  • A9: neither the seller (BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.) nor the app (BBC: World News & Stories) is named like the anchored entity (British Broadcasting Corporation)
  • A3: registrar (Tucows Domains Inc.) is not a brand-protection registrar
Reproduce this yourself
# A3 — registrar / dates / locks
curl -sL https://rdap.org/domain/bbc.com | jq '{status, events, registrar: [.entities[]|select(.roles[]=="registrar")|.vcardArray[1][1][3]]}'

# B1 — Wikidata P856
curl -s "https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetclaims&entity=Q9531&property=P856&format=json"

# B5 — Tranco rank
curl -s https://tranco-list.eu/api/ranks/domain/bbc.com

# B4 — first Wayback snapshot
curl -s "http://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=bbc.com&limit=1&output=json"

# Re-run the whole pipeline for this domain
git clone https://github.com/zhouchungong/realurls-registry && cd realurls-registry && pip install -e . && python -m src.verify bbc.com

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