Prompt 3 of 7
Name a current top 200 website (by Tranco; named sites and services only)
114 accepted answers across 5 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- MyFRITZ!— German FRITZ!Box routers phone home here, enough to outrank Reddit.
85 ptsDeep Cut53 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Achmea— Dutch insurer whose app traffic lands it above Reddit on the list.
- Actify— Zilveren Kruis's Dutch health app, ranked above most of the world's newspapers.
- Afternic— GoDaddy's domain marketplace, ranked because parked domains point at it.
- Alibaba Cloud— China's biggest cloud, ranked through its aliyuncs.com service domain.
- Apache Software Foundation— Home of the Apache web server and a hundred open-source projects.
- AppLovin— Mobile ad network and games publisher ranked on SDK calls.
- AppsFlyer— Its attribution SDK rides inside a huge share of mobile apps.
- Base— Coinbase's Ethereum layer-two chain, ranked on its docs and bridge traffic.
- Bitly— Link shortener behind bit.ly.
- Bunny.net— Slovenian CDN whose b-cdn.net edge serves a surprising slice of the web.
- CDN77— Prague-based CDN ranked on its edge domain rather than its brand.
- Creative Commons— Licence pages linked from millions of photos and articles.
- Criteo— French retargeting ad network that follows shoppers across the web.
- Dell Technologies— Dell's retired Dell EMC domain still carries its storage support traffic.
- Deutsche Telekom— Germany's phone company, ranked through its telekom.net backbone.
- DigiCert— Browsers check certificate validity here, billions of times a day.
- Doctolib— France's doctor-booking site, a top-200 domain on appointment traffic alone.
- DoubleClick— Google's 3.1 billion dollar DoubleClick deal, struck in 2007, closed in 2008.
- Duck DNS— Free dynamic DNS beloved of home-server hobbyists, ranked by their pings.
- Dzen— Yandex's news feed, sold to VK in 2022, ranks sixteenth.
- European Union— European Union's official portal, ranked on law and data lookups.
- F5— Maker of BIG-IP, the load balancer guarding much of corporate web traffic.
- Fastly— One 2021 outage here knocked Reddit and the BBC offline.
- Gandi— A French registrar whose nameservers host a slice of the web.
- goo.gl— Google's link shortener, closed to new links since 2019, still ranks 53rd.
- Google Analytics— Tracking script loaded by roughly half of all websites.
- Google Forms— forms.gle short links to survey forms rank on their own.
- Google Tag Manager— One script tag on millions of sites makes it a top-20 domain.
- Gravatar— Globally recognised avatars fetched by most WordPress comment boxes.
- Hostinger— Lithuanian web host ranked through its old hosting24 nameservers.
- iiko— Restaurant point-of-sale software from Moscow, phoning home hard enough to rank.
- Intuit— TurboTax and QuickBooks maker.
- Kaspersky— Russian antivirus whose update servers keep it in the top 200.
- Let's Encrypt— Free certificate authority; lencr.org ranks on billions of certificate checks.
- Magnite— Ad exchange still answering to its old Rubicon Project domain.
- MIIT— China's ministry site that Chinese websites must link for their ICP licence.
- MTS— Russia's largest mobile carrier.
- NGINX— Open-source web server first released by Igor Sysoev in 2004.
- NIC.ru— Russia's original registrar, RU-CENTER.
- NIH— US health research agency; PubMed drives the traffic.
- NTP Pool— Volunteer time servers keep the world's clocks in sync from here.
- Odnoklassniki— Russia's classmates network, ranked through its photo CDN.
- Paytm First Games— Indian fantasy-sports app, ranked on sheer install base.
- Reg.ru— Russia's biggest domain registrar.
- Sentry— Crash reports from thousands of apps stream into its ingest servers.
- SharePoint— Microsoft's document platform; OneDrive for Business lives on its domain.
- Spectrum— Charter's cable brand; its portal ranks on subscriber logins.
- TripLink— Trip.com's payments arm, ranked on the cards it issues to travel firms.
- Ubiquiti— UniFi router maker whose gear checks in at ui.com.
- Unity— Game engine whose runtime pings unity3d.com from countless apps.
- W3C— Web standards body whose XML namespace URLs get fetched by everything.
- Webex— Cisco's meeting service.
- Xiaomi— Chinese phone maker whose devices report to xiaomi.com.
60 ptsRare37 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Adobe
- Akamai— Six of its delivery domains rank inside the top 100.
- Amazon Web Services
- Azure
- Baidu
- Blogger
- Cloudflare
- Dropbox
- Epic Games
- Flickr
- GitHub
- GoDaddy— Its nameserver domain, not godaddy.com, is the one ranked 19th.
- iCloud
- Internet Archive
- Mail.ru
- Microsoft 365
- Mozilla
- MSN
- OpenAI
- Opera
- Outlook
- Prime Video— Its streaming CDN ranks 63rd while primevideo.com sits at 673.
- Roblox
- Samsung
- Shopify
- Skype
- SoundCloud
- Steam— Valve's game store, ranked through its content servers.
- Telegram
- The New York Times
- Tumblr
- Vimeo
- VK
- Windows
- WordPress
- Yandex
30 ptsSchooler14 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Apple
- Bing
- ChatGPT
- Discord
- Microsoft
- PayPal
- Snapchat
- Spotify
- Yahoo
- Zoom
10 ptsPlankton9 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Amazon
- Netflix
- TikTok
- Wikipedia
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube