Netify Data Feeds - Empty IPs and Stats

Datasets Without IPs and Networks

Those subscribed to the Applications IPs or Application Stats datasets will find several applications without IP or network data. These datasets fall into four categories:

New applications
Inactive applications
Hosting and CDNs
Special applications for internal networks

New Applications

New applications are added to the Netify applications database every week. A new application will appear in the IPs and Stats datasets soon after, but it takes up to 6 weeks before IP and network data appear.

Inactive Applications

Applications do not last forever. Sometimes, an application closes down, and at other times, applications are absorbed into other services via a merger or acquisition.

For consistency over time, the Netify data feeds still provide information on inactive applications. When inactive, the application property is returned with the active flag set to false (see adjacent JSON example), and the IP and network data will not exist.

Note: the active flag is also available in the complete list of applications returned from the applications API endpoint:
https://feeds.netify.ai/api/v2/lookup/applications.

Google Plus was a social network from Google. Due to low user engagement, the service was discontinued in 2019.

Result: the active flag is set to false:

"application": {
  "id": 10004,
  "tag": "google-plus",
  "label": "Google Plus",
  "description": "Google Plus was a ...",
  "home_page": {
    "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google+",
    "text": "Google Plus"
  },
  "category": {
    "id": 24,
    "tag": "social-media",
    "label": "Social Media"
  },
  "active": false,
  ...
}

Hosting and CDNs

The Application IPs and Stats datasets are intended for application detection and only application detection. Hosting providers like OVH and Scaleway host other applications but are generally not applications on their own.

For example, 192.154.127.218 is an IP address on the Scaleway hosting network. This IP address is used by the Ahrefbots SEO crawler. From an application perspective, this IP belongs to Ahrefsbot, not Scaleway.

In some circumstances, we may identify some IPs for hosting providers on third-party networks, for example:

A hosting company's blog hosted on WordPress
Third-party authentication providers
Customer-relationship portals, e.g. Salesforce

However, it's very common for hosting and CDN providers to have empty IP and network datasets.

Applications for Local Networks

There are three applications that are relevant for application detection but do not have any associated IPs or network ranges:

For completeness across the various application datasets, these three applications are included in Application IPs and Application Stats. However, you won't find any IPs or network ranges directly associated with these applications.

Internal Network

The Internal Network application provides a place to put commonly used domain suffixes for local networks:

.lan
.internal
.home
etc.

Reverse DNS

The Reverse DNS application provides a place for the domain suffixes used for reverse DNS. For example, a reverse DNS lookup on 8.8.8.8 is translated to the hostname 8.8.8.8.in-addr.arpa.