Vendor Check

One domain in, its standing in the registry out: reviewed in the ledger, screened live, observed on a public watchlist, named in our own coverage, or not tracked at all. A company name works too, where our articles have named one.

What the answers mean

• Reviewed in the ledger. The supplier has a dossier and dated observations in the Vendor Status Ledger. That is the deepest standing this publication records.
• Queued for review. Screening scored the storefront high enough that a full evaluation is scheduled.
• Screened. The domain has been fetched and read by the screening machine, with the date shown. Machine signals are observations, not judgments.
• Observed. The domain appears on a public watchlist or source list in the registry and has not been screened yet.
• Named in our coverage, not yet screened. An article here named the company, usually as the subject of a public record, and screening has not reached it. That is a statement about our own queue, not about the company: no page of theirs has been fetched, nothing has been evaluated, and nothing is being alleged here beyond what the article itself says.
• Not tracked. Not in the registry at all. If it is a live supplier, submit intel and it enters the pipeline.

The registry is built from public sources, screened continuously, and never accepts payment for standing. Lookups run in your browser against published data files. What you type in this box is not sent to this site, beyond the single data file your entry's first letter selects. A search handed to this page from the box on another page arrives in the address bar reduced to a domain-shaped key. That key sits in the part of the address your browser does not transmit to this server, and it is counted on the page it came from as a running total per query. The privacy page sets this out in full. With scripting off, that handoff sends the typed text itself as part of the page address.