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Capitalise industry labels, drop LinkedIn and sparse social columns

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Industry now uses standard casing. LinkedIn URL and the five columns populated for under 1% of rows are removed. Card links to stackscan.com reduced to citation, attribution and contact.

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  dtype: float64
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  - name: Industry
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  dtype: string
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- - name: LinkedIn URL
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- dtype: string
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  - name: Locality
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  dtype: string
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  - name: Country
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  dtype: string
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  - name: TLD
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  dtype: string
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- - name: Language
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- dtype: string
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- - name: Instagram
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- dtype: string
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- - name: Twitter
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- dtype: string
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- - name: YouTube
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- dtype: string
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- - name: TikTok
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- dtype: string
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  splits:
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  - name: train
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  num_examples: 5050
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  dtype: float64
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  - name: Industry
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  dtype: string
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- - name: LinkedIn URL
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- dtype: string
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  - name: Locality
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  dtype: string
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  - name: Country
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  dtype: string
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  - name: TLD
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  dtype: string
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- - name: Language
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- dtype: string
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- - name: Instagram
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- dtype: string
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- - name: Twitter
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- dtype: string
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- - name: YouTube
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- dtype: string
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- - name: TikTok
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- dtype: string
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  splits:
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  - name: train
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  num_examples: 14697
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  dtype: float64
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  - name: Industry
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  dtype: string
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- - name: LinkedIn URL
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- dtype: string
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  - name: Locality
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  dtype: string
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  - name: Country
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  dtype: string
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  - name: TLD
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  dtype: string
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- - name: Language
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- dtype: string
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- - name: Instagram
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- dtype: string
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- - name: Twitter
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- dtype: string
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- - name: YouTube
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- dtype: string
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- - name: TikTok
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- dtype: string
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  - name: Certificate Authority
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  dtype: string
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  splits:
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  ## Overview
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- This dataset lists 5,050 large companies and organizations whose websites were found to use SSL/TLS certificates issued by Let's Encrypt. Each row carries firmographic context: industry, employee band, country, locality, founding year and LinkedIn profile.
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  Rows are ordered by website popularity rank, and the file covers the most popular slice of a larger pool of large organizations found to use Let's Encrypt. It is not a list of the world's largest or most popular organizations, and the rank is a property of the website rather than a measure of the organization's size or importance.
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  It is intended for technology research, cybersecurity analysis, technographic research, competitive intelligence, market analysis and data science.
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- Full Let's Encrypt statistics, including the global heatmap, usage by country and by industry, and the top websites, are published at [StackScan](https://www.stackscan.com/technology/lets-encrypt).
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  ## Dataset Highlights
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  * Collected in August 2026
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  ## Dataset Fields
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- Three files share the same 15 columns. The comparison file adds a sixteenth.
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  | Config | File | Rows | Contents |
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  | ------ | ---- | ---- | -------- |
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  | Column | Type | Coverage | Description |
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  | ------ | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
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- | `Popularity Rank` | int64 | 100% | Website popularity rank, lower being more popular. Ranges from 5 to 1,959,064. Rows are stored in ascending rank order |
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- | `Domain` | string | 100% | Primary website domain. Unique across the file |
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- | `Company Name` | string | 100% | Company or organization name, lowercased |
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- | `Company Size` | string | 100% | Employee band. Two values: `5001-10000` (2,245 rows) and `10001+` (2,805 rows) |
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  | `Year Founded` | float64 | 73.4% | Founding year |
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- | `Industry` | string | 99.7% | Industry label, lowercased. 142 distinct values |
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- | `LinkedIn URL` | string | 100% | Company LinkedIn profile path |
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  | `Locality` | string | 85.1% | City or region, where available |
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- | `Country` | string | 100% | Organization or website country. 140 distinct values |
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- | `TLD` | string | 100% | Top-level domain. 355 distinct values |
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- | `Language` | string | 0.6% | Detected site language |
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- | `Instagram` | string | 0.4% | Instagram handle |
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- | `Twitter` | string | 0.2% | Twitter handle |
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- | `YouTube` | string | 0.2% | YouTube channel |
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- | `TikTok` | string | 0.1% | TikTok handle |
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- The language and social columns are populated for fewer than 1% of rows.
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  ## Comparison Group
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  It was built with the same filters as the adopter data: 5,001 or more employees, company information required, collected August 2026. The two groups share no domains.
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- Columns are the 15 above plus `Certificate Authority`, naming the authority or authorities detected. 971 organizations were detected with more than one, written pipe separated.
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  | Certificate authority | Organizations | Share |
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  | --------------------- | ------------- | ----- |
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  }
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  ```
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- Source page: [Let's Encrypt usage statistics](https://www.stackscan.com/technology/lets-encrypt).
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  ## Related
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  [stackscan/email-authentication](https://huggingface.co/datasets/stackscan/email-authentication) records SPF and DMARC adoption across 36,120 large organizations. It uses the same population definition and collection period, so the two can be joined on `Domain`.
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  The files in this repository are CC BY 4.0 and free for anyone to use, including commercially. No request or permission is needed.
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- StackScan also provides free access to larger and custom datasets for data journalists, academic researchers, non-profits and other organizations working on non-commercial projects. Ask through [stackscan.com](https://www.stackscan.com/technology/lets-encrypt).
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  ## License
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  dtype: float64
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  - name: Industry
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  dtype: string
 
 
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  - name: Locality
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  dtype: string
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  - name: Country
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  dtype: string
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  - name: TLD
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  splits:
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  - name: train
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  num_examples: 5050
 
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  dtype: float64
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  - name: Industry
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  dtype: string
 
 
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  - name: Locality
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  dtype: string
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  - name: Country
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  dtype: string
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  - name: TLD
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  - name: train
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  num_examples: 14697
 
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  - name: Industry
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  - name: Locality
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  dtype: string
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  - name: Country
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  dtype: string
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  - name: TLD
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  dtype: string
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  splits:
 
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  ## Overview
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+ This dataset lists 5,050 large companies and organizations whose websites were found to use SSL/TLS certificates issued by Let's Encrypt. Each row carries firmographic context: industry, employee band, country, locality and founding year.
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  Rows are ordered by website popularity rank, and the file covers the most popular slice of a larger pool of large organizations found to use Let's Encrypt. It is not a list of the world's largest or most popular organizations, and the rank is a property of the website rather than a measure of the organization's size or importance.
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  It is intended for technology research, cybersecurity analysis, technographic research, competitive intelligence, market analysis and data science.
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  ## Dataset Highlights
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  * Collected in August 2026
 
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  ## Dataset Fields
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+ Three files share the same 9 columns. The comparison file adds a tenth.
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  | Config | File | Rows | Contents |
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  | ------ | ---- | ---- | -------- |
 
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  | Column | Type | Coverage | Description |
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+ | `Popularity Rank` | int64 | 100.0% | Website popularity rank, lower being more popular. Rows are stored in ascending rank order |
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+ | `Domain` | string | 100.0% | Primary website domain. Unique across the file |
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+ | `Company Name` | string | 100.0% | Organization name, lowercased |
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+ | `Company Size` | string | 100.0% | Employee band. Two values: `5001-10000` and `10001+` |
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  | `Year Founded` | float64 | 73.4% | Founding year |
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+ | `Industry` | string | 99.7% | Industry label |
 
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  | `Locality` | string | 85.1% | City or region, where available |
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+ | `Country` | string | 100.0% | Organization or website country |
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+ | `TLD` | string | 100.0% | Top-level domain |
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  It was built with the same filters as the adopter data: 5,001 or more employees, company information required, collected August 2026. The two groups share no domains.
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  | Certificate authority | Organizations | Share |
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  | --------------------- | ------------- | ----- |
 
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  }
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  ```
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  ## Related
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  [stackscan/email-authentication](https://huggingface.co/datasets/stackscan/email-authentication) records SPF and DMARC adoption across 36,120 large organizations. It uses the same population definition and collection period, so the two can be joined on `Domain`.
 
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  The files in this repository are CC BY 4.0 and free for anyone to use, including commercially. No request or permission is needed.
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+ StackScan also provides free access to larger and custom datasets for data journalists, academic researchers, non-profits and other organizations working on non-commercial projects. Ask through [stackscan.com](https://www.stackscan.com).
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  ## License
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