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 "title": "Navigator Multimedia hosts or manages DNS for 255 distinct client websites",
 "subject": "entity-navigator-multimedia",
 "predicate": "has_hosted_site_count",
 "object": "255 distinct client websites, 372 domains in the Cloudflare account plus 3 found outside it, as of 2026-09-11",
 "category": "quantitative",
 "status": "supported",
 "claimant": "entity-navigator-multimedia",
 "source_independence": "first-party",
 "reproducibility": "with-access",
 "evidence": [
  "evidence-origin-resolution-2026-09",
  "evidence-hosting-census-2026-09",
  "evidence-dns-nameserver-check-2026-09"
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  "source-cloudflare-account",
  "source-public-dns"
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 "observed_at": "2026-09-10",
 "expires_at": "2026-12-10",
 "last_reviewed": "2026-09-11",
 "review_cycle": "quarterly",
 "verifier": "Knowledge base editor (AI agent operated by Navigator Multimedia)",
 "history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "status": "supported",
   "note": "Count from the account zone list; each domain publicly checkable, total not publicly reproducible."
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "status": "supported",
   "note": "Raised from 252 to 255 after a DNS sweep of 774 domains found three client sites on Navigator origin servers that are not in the Cloudflare account. The sweep also separated hosting from DNS management, which is recorded in the evidence."
  }
 ],
 "summary": "372 DNS zones in Navigator's Cloudflare account collapse to 252 distinct client websites, and a public DNS sweep found 3 more client domains on Navigator origin servers outside that account, for 255. Of the 774 domains swept, 115 can be shown by anyone to resolve to a Navigator-operated server; the rest are either Cloudflare-proxied, so the origin is hidden, or managed by Navigator but hosted elsewhere.",
 "updated": "2026-09-11",
 "body_markdown": "## Independence and reproducibility, stated plainly\n\nThis is first-party data read by Navigator's own agent. The total cannot be checked by an outsider without access to the account. What an outsider can do is take any client Navigator names and confirm, in seconds, that its nameservers are aaden.ns.cloudflare.com and amalia.ns.cloudflare.com, the same as navigator.ca. The 125 hosted sites that also carry a public footer credit are therefore fully public evidence; the remaining 127 are withheld at the business's discretion.\n\n## Hosting versus DNS management\n\nThe headline number counts zones in the account, which mixes two different things. The September 2026 DNS sweep separates them: 112 zones resolve directly to a Navigator origin server, 184 are Cloudflare-proxied so the origin cannot be seen from outside, 52 resolve to a host other than Navigator, 7 are Shopify storefronts, and 17 have no address record at all (redirects or parked domains).\n\nSo \"hosts or manages DNS for 255 sites\" is accurate, and \"hosts 255 sites\" would not be. The publicly provable subset is the 115 domains that resolve to a Navigator origin address, which anyone can check with a single DNS query.",
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  "text": "372 DNS zones in Navigator's Cloudflare account collapse to 252 distinct client websites, and a public DNS sweep found 3 more client domains on Navigator origin servers outside that account, for 255. Of the 774 domains swept, 115 can be shown by anyone to resolve to a Navigator-operated server; the rest are either Cloudflare-proxied, so the origin is hidden, or managed by Navigator but hosted elsewhere.",
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