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 "id": "evidence-hosting-census-2026-09",
 "url": "https://www.navigator.ca/knowledge/evidence/hosting-census-2026-09",
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 "title": "Hosted client site census from the Cloudflare zone list (September 2026)",
 "evidence_type": "hosting-roster",
 "party": "derived",
 "derived_by": "Navigator Multimedia's knowledge base editor (an AI agent operated by Navigator), from the account zone list read with the owner signed in",
 "source": "source-cloudflare-account",
 "accessed": "2026-09-10",
 "method": "Read all zones in the account; collapsed alias and redirect domains into one site per business by name family; removed Navigator's own properties; classified each site by vertical and geography from its name.",
 "results": {
  "zones": 372,
  "distinct_sites": 255,
  "navigator_own_sites": 3,
  "client_sites": 252,
  "client_sites_classified": 230,
  "client_sites_pending_identification": 22,
  "overlap_with_backlink_census": 125,
  "by_vertical": {
   "b2b": 69,
   "tourism_hospitality": 55,
   "b2c": 43,
   "nonprofit_community": 33,
   "real_estate_development": 25,
   "ecommerce": 5
  }
 },
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  "claim-provides-web-hosting",
  "claim-300-plus-clients",
  "claim-industries-served",
  "claim-serves-okanagan",
  "claim-serves-kootenays",
  "claim-serves-alberta",
  "claim-continuous-operation-since-1993",
  "claim-serves-tourism-sector",
  "claim-serves-canada"
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 "portion_supported": "The number of client websites whose DNS is managed in Navigator's account on the observation date, by vertical. 125 of them also appear in the pre-2022 backlink record, which supports the same-clients continuity claim.",
 "limitations": "First-party data. The total is not publicly reproducible because the client list is not published. Each individual domain is publicly checkable by DNS (see the nameserver evidence). Sites served from Navigator's origin servers without Cloudflare, and sites on two other Cloudflare accounts, are not counted, so this is also a floor.",
 "updated": "2026-09-11",
 "body_markdown": "The owner's estimate before this count was \"nearly 300\". The counted floor is 252 distinct sites across 372 domains.",
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