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Clarify that rows are ordered by website popularity rank

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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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- The file is a sample of large organizations that use Let's Encrypt. It is not a ranking, and it is not the 5,000 largest or most popular organizations in the world.
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  Collected in August 2026. Certificate choices change, so treat the data as a snapshot of that month rather than a current state.
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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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  Collected in August 2026. Certificate choices change, so treat the data as a snapshot of that month rather than a current state.
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