Realurls

Internal Revenue Service

Also known as irs, irs-public. Wikidata Q973587.

Official domains: irs.gov

Identity anchored by wikidata:Q973587/P856. Display name from wikidata:Q973587.

irs.gov verified primary · confidence 0.67 · 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=IRS-Public org_verified=false blog=https://irs.gov/
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A9 anchor App Store history: an established app by an Apple-verified company named like the entity, seller URL points here
app=IRS2Go track_id=414113282 seller=Internal Revenue Service artist=Internal Revenue Service seller_url=https://www.irs.gov/irs2go released=2011-01-20 age_days=5707 ratings=4299 apps_for_domain=1 apps=[{"app":"IRS2Go","seller":"Internal Revenue Service","released":"2011-01-20","age_days":5707,"ratings":4299}]
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A3 not counted Corporate registrar fingerprint (brand-protection registrar, long prepaid term, registry locks)
registrar=get.gov created=1997-10-02 expires=2027-08-04 remaining_days=332 locks=["server transfer"]
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A4 not counted TLS certificate carries the organization name (OV/EV)
subject_org=Department of Treasury validation_type=OV issuer=Entrust Limited san_count=2
 TLS handshake irs.gov:443
B1 corroboration Wikidata official-website claim (P856) on the anchored item
qid=Q973587 label=Internal Revenue Service kind=organization site=https://www.irs.gov sitelinks=29 competing_items=0
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B5 corroboration Tranco top-1M ranking
rank=1358 source=top-1m list
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B4 corroboration Wayback Machine history
first_snapshot=1997-12-10 history_days=10497
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3 piece(s) of evidence not counted — why
  • A1: GitHub organization has not verified this domain (is_verified != true)
  • A3: registrar (get.gov) is not a brand-protection registrar
  • A4: certificate organization (Department of Treasury) is not the anchored entity (Internal Revenue Service)
Reproduce this yourself
# A3 — registrar / dates / locks
curl -sL https://rdap.org/domain/irs.gov | 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=Q973587&property=P856&format=json"

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

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

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