Realurls

Progress Chef

Also known as chef, chef/chef. GitHub chef.

Official domains: chef.io

Identity anchored by github-history:chef/chef(age=17y,contrib=1062,stars=8235). Display name from github_org_display_name(self-declared).

chef.io verified primary · confidence 0.83 · verified 2026-09-05

correlated anchors merged: A8 not independent of the kept one, counted once · 1 independent anchor(s) + 2 independent corroboration(s): meets the verified threshold

EvidenceWhat it shows
A1 anchor GitHub verified this organization's domain (DNS-level check performed by GitHub)
org=chef org_verified=true blog=https://www.chef.io/
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A8 anchor Anchored repository's homepage points here, and this site links back
repo=chef/chef org=chef repo_anchored=true homepage=http://www.chef.io/chef/ backlink=true stars=8235 age_days=6442 contributors=1062
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A4 not counted TLS certificate carries the organization name (OV/EV)
subject_org= validation_type=DV issuer=Google Trust Services san_count=1
 TLS handshake chef.io:443
B1 not counted Wikidata official-website claim (P856) on the anchored item
qid=Q7098706 label=Chef site=https://www.chef.io/ sitelinks=1 competing_items=0
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B5 corroboration Tranco top-1M ranking
rank=39990 source=top-1m list
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B4 corroboration Wayback Machine history
first_snapshot=2014-12-17 history_days=4280
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2 piece(s) of evidence not counted — why
  • A4: DV certificate carries no organization name (most modern tech companies use DV; this is expected)
  • B1: entity not anchored: no canonical Wikidata item, so an arbitrary item's P856 cannot corroborate
Reproduce this yourself
# A1 — GitHub verified this org's domain
curl -s https://api.github.com/orgs/chef | jq '{name, blog, is_verified}'

# A8 — anchored repo's homepage
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/chef/chef | jq '{homepage, created_at, stargazers_count}'

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

# B4 — first Wayback snapshot
curl -s "http://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=chef.io&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 chef.io

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