Realurls

Waze Mobile

Also known as waze. Wikidata Q16523799.

Official domains: waze.com

Identity anchored by wikidata:Q16523799/P856(sitelinks=1) appstore:waze(Waze Navigation & Live Traffic,17y,3189051 ratings). Display name from wikidata:Q16523799.

waze.com verified primary · confidence 0.67 · verified 2026-09-06

1 independent anchor(s) + 3 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=Waze Navigation & Live Traffic track_id=323229106 seller=waze artist=Waze Inc. seller_url=http://www.waze.com released=2009-08-01 age_days=6244 ratings=3189051 apps_for_domain=1 apps=[{"app":"Waze Navigation & Live Traffic","seller":"waze","released":"2009-08-01","age_days":6244,"ratings":3189051}]
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A3 not counted Corporate registrar fingerprint (brand-protection registrar, long prepaid term, registry locks)
registrar=MarkMonitor Inc. created=2000-04-01 expires=2027-04-01 remaining_days=206 locks=["delete","transfer","update"]
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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=6
 TLS handshake waze.com:443
B1 corroboration Wikidata official-website claim (P856) on the anchored item
qid=Q16523799 label=Waze Mobile kind=organization site=https://www.waze.com/ sitelinks=1 competing_items=1
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B5 corroboration Tranco top-1M ranking
rank=1167 source=top-1m list
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B4 corroboration Wayback Machine history
first_snapshot=1999-10-12 history_days=9826
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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
# A3 — registrar / dates / locks
curl -sL https://rdap.org/domain/waze.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=Q16523799&property=P856&format=json"

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

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

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