New record Who rents to the scanners
94% of scanning came from rented servers.
Biggest landlord: Google LLC, with 728,856 probes from 723 of its machines. 328 networks sent scanners in all.
Edition of Friday, Oct 16, 2026 (UTC) · see the latest · updated every 24 hours
94%
from hosting
328
networks
▼ -16% vs the day before
100
countries
▲ +1.0% vs the day before
Every edition: from hosting
How we measure
Probe requests grouped by the network (autonomous system) their IP address belongs to, from DB-IP's free ASN database. "Hosting networks" are clouds and data centres on NiceTryBot's list of hosting providers. Country is where the IP geolocates, which for clouds is the data centre, not the person. IP geolocation by DB-IP (CC BY 4.0).
Every landlord in the top 15
| Network | ASN | Hosting? | Probes | Machines |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google LLC | AS396982 | Yes | 728,856 | 723 |
| Microsoft Corporation | AS8075 | Yes | 45,831 | 31 |
| TECHOFF SRV LIMITED | AS48090 | — | 18,990 | 16 |
| TC DATACENTER LIMITED | AS218785 | — | 5,905 | 10 |
| TechTies Inc. | AS197170 | — | 5,797 | 18 |
| DigitalOcean, LLC | AS14061 | Yes | 4,567 | 588 |
| 3xK Tech GmbH | AS200373 | — | 3,851 | 2,114 |
| BestDC Limited | AS216014 | — | 3,240 | 2 |
| M247 Europe SRL | AS9009 | Yes | 2,499 | 22 |
| Omegatech LTD | AS202412 | — | 2,149 | 11 |
| Akamai Technologies, Inc. | AS63949 | Yes | 2,078 | 32 |
| Hydra Communications Ltd | AS25369 | — | 2,052 | 12 |
| Cloudflare, Inc. | AS13335 | Yes | 1,620 | 672 |
| Datacamp Limited | AS60068, AS212238 | Yes | 1,428 | 27 |
| Powerhouse Management, Inc. | AS22363 | — | 1,004 | 3 |
Where the servers are
The country each probe's IP geolocates to. For clouds, that's the data centre.
| Country | Probes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| BE | 141,490 | 17% |
| US | 134,074 | 16% |
| DE | 65,392 | 8% |
| CA | 44,690 | 5% |
| GB | 40,478 | 5% |
| NL | 40,102 | 5% |
| AU | 33,079 | 4% |
| FR | 31,194 | 4% |
| QA | 30,561 | 4% |
| ES | 29,348 | 4% |
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