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GitHub, under continuous watch.

If GitHub's nameservers moved tonight, every CI pipeline on earth would follow the new records without asking. DomainDrift reads this estate about every 5 minutes and signs each reading - here is the live record.

The briefing2026-08-22

Five domains carry GitHub: the front door, raw file delivery, Pages, the asset host, and the status page. As of August 22, all five are under continuous watch at about a 5-minute cadence. Each reading is signed at the moment of observation, and every line on this page links to its receipt.

Two of the five publish no web page at their apex. Their DNS still routes traffic for millions of fetches a day, so the watch covers them the same way. The window since the watch tightened has been quiet: no nameserver, registrar, or certificate-authority movement across the estate.

The estate

github.comUp right now
The front door. Web, API, and git-over-HTTPS.
Runs onCloudflare
Email byMicrosoft 365
Also usesAWS Route 53ShopifyAppleServalFacebook/MetaAnthropic
Registration 47dRead 04:51 UTCSigned record →
githubusercontent.comNo web page - DNS only
Raw file delivery. Every raw fetch rides its DNS.
Runs onCloudflare
Also usesAWS Route 53GlobalSignCloudflare (proxied)
Registration 532dRead 04:50 UTCSigned record →
github.ioUp right now
GitHub Pages. Millions of project sites.
Runs onGitHub Pages
Also usesAWS Route 53CloudflareCloudflare (proxied)
Registration 197dRead 04:50 UTCSigned record →
githubassets.comNo web page - DNS only
Static assets for github.com itself.
Runs onCloudflare
Also usesAWS Route 53Cloudflare (proxied)
Registration 61dRead 04:50 UTCSigned record →
githubstatus.comUp right now
The status page people check when the rest misbehaves.
Runs onGitHub Pages
Also usesAWS Route 53Google Search ConsoleAtlassianAtlassian StatuspageCloudflareCloudflare (proxied)
Registration 229dRead 04:50 UTCSigned record →

Recent movement

No material movement in the last 24 hours. A quiet window is a reading too: the watch ran, the records held.
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CONTINUOUS INTERNET TELEMETRY24H DRIFT9,677 material changesacross 5,817 domains · 24h to ~2h agoDNS DRIFT85 domains changed DNS providertop destination koaladns.com · -4 vs yesterdayREGISTRAR DRIFT3 changed registrar24hNOW278 curated domains not reachablelast probe, steadySITE ERRORS17,791 sites serving errorslast probe · 5xx / 404 / TLSBOT DEFENSEbot defense observed on 79,230 sites429 rate-limit / 403 bot-block, a posture signal