The service, by the numbers.
Everything on this page is read from the public server as the page is built and refreshed every half minute while you watch. Aggregates only: no requester is ever identified.
How big, and made of what.
Prefixes in the table
The twenty ASes announcing the most prefixes
By number of prefixes originated in each table, with the organization and country on record. Click an AS number to see its routes in the web lookup.
What the server is being asked
Every counter the server keeps, by volume since the last restart. Bars are on a logarithmic scale — the volumes span several orders of magnitude.
Where the questions come from
Share of query volume by the country of the requesting network, from the routing table itself. Top ten, bars on a logarithmic scale; one country dominates. "Unknown" is space the table cannot place.
The audience, in aggregate.
Counts only — never who. Read from the server's per-source table each half minute and reduced to numbers before anything leaves the server. Requests since the last restart came from 100 networks (origin ASes) across 32 countries.
Who arrives over IPv6
Requesting hosts since the last restart, by the family they connected over — shares only.
What is being looked up
Plain whois lookups since the last restart, by the family of the address asked about. Logarithmic ring — IPv6 would otherwise vanish.
What assistants ask through the MCP connector.
The last 30 days of connector traffic, as shares of tool calls. Same rule as the rest of this page: nothing finer than a percentage.
Tool calls and queries charged
Which tools get used
Share of tool calls by tool. pwhois_lookup_ips is one call for up to 5,000 addresses, so its share understates the addresses it enriches.
Where the assistants connect from
Share of tool calls by the country of the connecting network. Bars on a logarithmic scale.
Charts drawn
pwhois_map) · 0 on the web mapspwhois_map) · 71 on the web mapsAn assistant chart is one pwhois_map call that returned a picture. A web map is one build, expansion or downstream fetch on pwhois.org/maps.
The networks people map most
Share of AS maps built on the web in the last 7 days. AS numbers only, never an address, and a network is listed once at least 2 different addresses have mapped it. Assistant charts keep no record of what was drawn.
Not enough maps yet this week to list any network.
Same numbers, port 43
Type version at whois.pwhois.org and you get the table size, peer counts and cache dates this page is drawn from — or use the web lookup's version query.
Requesters
We aggregate requests to countries and IP address families (IPv4 versus IPv6) to generate usage statistics while preserving your privacy. See the privacy notes.
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