Realurls

Homebrew

Also known as brew. Wikidata Q11223506. GitHub Homebrew.

Official domains: brew.sh

Identity anchored by wikidata:Q11223506/P856 wikidata:Q11223506/P2037. Display name from wikidata:Q11223506.

brew.sh verified primary · confidence 0.85 · verified 2026-09-05

correlated anchors merged: A8 not independent of the kept one, counted once · 1 independent anchor(s) + 3 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=Homebrew org_verified=true blog=https://brew.sh
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A8 anchor Anchored repository's homepage points here, and this site links back
repo=Homebrew/brew org=Homebrew repo_anchored=true homepage=https://brew.sh backlink=true stars=49412 age_days=3835 contributors=1403
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A4 not counted TLS certificate carries the organization name (OV/EV)
subject_org= validation_type=DV issuer=Let's Encrypt san_count=2
 TLS handshake brew.sh:443
B1 corroboration Wikidata official-website claim (P856) on the anchored item
qid=Q11223506 label=Homebrew site=https://brew.sh sitelinks=18 competing_items=0
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B5 corroboration Tranco top-1M ranking
rank=6560 source=top-1m list
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B4 corroboration Wayback Machine history
first_snapshot=2013-03-28 history_days=4909
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1 piece(s) of evidence not counted — why
  • A4: DV certificate carries no organization name (most modern tech companies use DV; this is expected)
Reproduce this yourself
# A1 — GitHub verified this org's domain
curl -s https://api.github.com/orgs/Homebrew | jq '{name, blog, is_verified}'

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

# B1 — Wikidata P856
curl -s "https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetclaims&entity=Q11223506&property=P856&format=json"

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

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

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