Realurls

Linkerd

Also known as linkerd/linkerd2, linkerd2. GitHub linkerd.

Official domains: linkerd.io

Identity anchored by github-history:linkerd/linkerd2(age=8y,contrib=406,stars=11485). Display name from github_org_display_name(self-declared).

linkerd.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=linkerd org_verified=true blog=https://linkerd.io
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A8 anchor Anchored repository's homepage points here, and this site links back
repo=linkerd/linkerd2 org=linkerd repo_anchored=true homepage=https://linkerd.io backlink=true stars=11485 age_days=3196 contributors=406
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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=3
 TLS handshake linkerd.io:443
B1 not counted Wikidata official-website claim (P856) on the anchored item
qid=Q88465954 label=Linkerd site=https://linkerd.io/ sitelinks=0 competing_items=0
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B5 corroboration Tranco top-1M ranking
rank=195773 source=top-1m list
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B4 corroboration Wayback Machine history
first_snapshot=2017-01-29 history_days=3506
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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/linkerd | jq '{name, blog, is_verified}'

# A8 — anchored repo's homepage
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/linkerd/linkerd2 | jq '{homepage, created_at, stargazers_count}'

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

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

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