Realurls

Valve Corporation

Also known as steampowered, valve software, valvesoftware. Wikidata Q193559. GitHub ValveSoftware.

Official domains: steampowered.com valvesoftware.com

Identity anchored by wikidata:Q193559/P856 wikidata:Q193559/P2037. Display name from wikidata:Q193559.

steampowered.com verified product · confidence 0.87 · verified 2026-09-05

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

EvidenceWhat it shows
A9 anchor App Store history: an established app by an Apple-verified company named like the entity, seller URL points here
app=Steam Mobile track_id=495369748 seller=Valve Corporation artist=Valve seller_url=https://store.steampowered.com/mobile released=2012-01-26 age_days=5336 ratings=11994 apps_for_domain=3 apps=[{"app":"Steam Mobile","seller":"Valve Corporation","released":"2012-01-26","age_days":5336,"ratings":11994},{"app":"Steam Link","seller":"Valve Corporation","released":"2019-05-16","age_days":2669,"ratings":2988},{"app":"Steam Chat","seller":"Valve Corporation","released":"2019-05-23","age_days":2662,"ratings":1564}]
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A3 not counted Corporate registrar fingerprint (brand-protection registrar, long prepaid term, registry locks)
registrar=MarkMonitor Inc. created=2000-08-09 expires=2028-08-09 remaining_days=703 locks=["delete","transfer","update","server delete","server transfer","server update"]
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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=48
 TLS handshake steampowered.com:443
B5 corroboration Tranco top-1M ranking
rank=297 source=top-1m list
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B4 corroboration Wayback Machine history
first_snapshot=2002-03-21 history_days=8934
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A6 anchor Propagated from a verified sibling domain (first-party link + shared infrastructure)
from=valvesoftware.com from_status=verified first_party_link=true structural_links=["shared_ns"] san_count=2 shared_ns=["a1-194.akam.net","a2-64.akam.net","a22-67.akam.net","a24-64.akam.net"] backlink=true
 propagate from valvesoftware.com
2 piece(s) of evidence not counted — why
  • A3: fewer than 1095 days until expiry; not the long prepaid term typical of corporate registrations
  • A4: DV certificate carries no organization name (most modern tech companies use DV; this is expected)
Reproduce this yourself
# A3 — registrar / dates / locks
curl -sL https://rdap.org/domain/steampowered.com | jq '{status, events, registrar: [.entities[]|select(.roles[]=="registrar")|.vcardArray[1][1][3]]}'

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

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

valvesoftware.com verified primary · confidence 0.83 · verified 2026-09-05

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=ValveSoftware org_verified=true blog=https://www.valvesoftware.com/
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A3 not counted Corporate registrar fingerprint (brand-protection registrar, long prepaid term, registry locks)
registrar=MarkMonitor Inc. created=1996-10-06 expires=2028-10-05 remaining_days=760 locks=["delete","transfer","update","server delete","server transfer","server update"]
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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 valvesoftware.com:443
B1 corroboration Wikidata official-website claim (P856) on the anchored item
qid=Q193559 label=維爾福 site=https://www.valvesoftware.com sitelinks=75 competing_items=0
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B5 corroboration Tranco top-1M ranking
rank=16229 source=top-1m list
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2 piece(s) of evidence not counted — why
  • A3: fewer than 1095 days until expiry; not the long prepaid term typical of corporate registrations
  • 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/ValveSoftware | jq '{name, blog, is_verified}'

# A3 — registrar / dates / locks
curl -sL https://rdap.org/domain/valvesoftware.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=Q193559&property=P856&format=json"

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

# 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 valvesoftware.com

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