Title
Exploiting DNS traffic to rank internet domains
Abstract
Search engines and Internet service providers rank domains leveraging on search hits, information gathered through social networks, advertisement campaigns, and third-party applications such as web-browser extensions. Unfortunately, these methods are difficult to implement and deploy as they require substantial amount of traffic and data to be analysed. In this paper we describe a novel methodology for ranking Internet domains based on DNS (Domain Name System) traffic. The advantage is that by analysing a limited amount of traffic it is possible to create comprehensive rankings without having to monitor massive amounts of data. DNS traffic collected at “.it” DNS domain servers has been used to validate this work on a large scale, and create daily rankings of Italian Internet domains.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ICCW.2013.6649442
Communications Workshops
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Internet,online front-ends,social networking (online),telecommunication traffic,DNS domain servers,DNS traffic,Internet service providers,Italian Internet domains,advertisement campaigns,domain name system,rank Internet domains,search engines,search hits,social networks,third-party applications,web-browser extensions
Conference
2164-7038
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.41
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luca Deri129232.98
Simone Mainardi2685.42
Maurizio Martinelli3207.36
Enrico Gregori41919181.19