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I have a bunch of heuristics - but broadly speaking a new domain + a new good looking site. ie: some legit pages, legit socials, and some real owner/purpose behind it.
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I don't know if drop shipping is still viable, but there are lots of those types of sites so...
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I run a system that tracks newly launched websites worldwide. In November it detected 677,544 new sites across 392 countries.

Some findings from the dataset:

Geography (top countries):

United States: 253,589

India: 34,127

Canada: 20,263

United Kingdom: 18,701

Pakistan: 10,124

(392 total countries)

Industries:

E-commerce: 164,010

Adult & Gambling: large category overall

Gambling (L2): 84,353

News & Blogs: 49,424

SaaS products: 39,105

Niches (L3):

Online Casinos: 81,608

Clothing: 33,553

Niche SaaS tools: 31,881

Home Decor: 31,273

News & Journalism: 29,750

Platforms (detected on ~295k sites):

WordPress: 116,250

Shopify: 84,407

WooCommerce: 42,615

Squarespace: 25,328

Wix: 23,598

Webflow: 3,049

TLDs: .com: 435,622

.store: 38,223

.org: 26,474

.online: 23,422

.site: 22,919

.ai: 6,167

Happy to answer questions about methodology, accuracy, crawling, classification, or detection heuristics.

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