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www.webcitation.org

High Traffic Tranco #47,851

www.webcitation.org operates primarily as a knowledge base, focusing on digital web archiving. WebCite is a digital preservation service designed to archive cited webpages and websites to ensure their long-term availability for scholarly research. It enables authors, editors, and publishers to create permanent links to web material, preventing broken citations in academic publications. It is operated by WebCite.

web archivingdigital preservationscholarly citationsacademic research
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{
  "domain": "webcitation.org",
  "confidence": "high",
  "category": {
    "purpose": "knowledge_base",
    "specialization": "Digital Web Archiving"
  },
  "identity": {
    "headline": "On-demand archiving system for scholarly web references",
    "summary": "WebCite is a digital preservation service designed to archive cited webpages and websites to ensure their long-term availability for scholarly research. It enables authors, editors, and publishers to create permanent links to web material, preventing broken citations in academic publications.",
    "operator": "WebCite",
    "parent_entity": null,
    "topics": [
      "web archiving",
      "digital preservation",
      "scholarly citations",
      "academic research"
    ]
  },
  "functions": {
    "is_ugc_platform": false,
    "is_file_host": false,
    "is_url_shortener": false,
    "is_public_idp": false,
    "is_crypto_platform": false,
    "allows_user_subdomains": false,
    "is_form_builder": false,
    "is_document_host": false
  },
  "facts": {
    "registered_date": "2003-11-15T05:36:27Z",
    "rank": 47851,
    "hosting_provider": "AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc."
  }
}

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AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc.

Registered

Nov 15, 2003

Last Updated

Mar 10, 2026

Domain data sourced from WHOIS, Tranco rankings, and URLert's classification engine.