NEW: Dec 2024 statistics published on #IRC Server deployment on the internet. See https://ircstats.org.
Both IPv4 and IPv6 were scanned. Almost 6700 IRC servers were found, of which around 5250 were publicly accessible.

The final gathering of IRC Stats for Dec'24 starts in 5 minutes. Sorry to all IRC networks for the noise!
IRCStats gathers statistics on #IRC usage on the Internet, see https://ircstats.org.
We DO NOT publish any server/network/nick/channel names. IRCStats is NOT an indexer.

This goes in 4 sweeps, like every year: first port 6667, then 6697 (TLS). After that from a different IP the other way around: the remaining 6697 that did not get fully connected yet on IRC, and then the same for 6667.

NEW STATS: #IRC Server software in use on the Internet (based on 5500+ publicly accessible servers):
#UnrealIRCd 38%, #InspIRCd 21%, ngircd 9%, Hybrid 8%. Ergo grows to 3.5%. See details at https://ircstats.org

NEW: Dec 2023 statistics published on #IRC server deployment on the internet! See https://ircstats.org.
Both IPv4 and IPv6 were scanned. Almost 7000 IRC servers were found, of which around 5500 were publicly accessible.

The final gathering of IRC Stats for Dec'23 starts in 15m. Sorry to all IRC networks for the noise!
IRCStats gathers statistics on #IRC usage on the Internet, see https://ircstats.org.
We DO NOT publish any server/network/nick/channel names. IRCStats is NOT an indexer.

This goes in 4 sweeps, like every year: first port 6667, then 6697 (TLS). After that from a different IP address the other way around: the remaining 6697 that did not get fully connected yet on IRC, and then the same for 6667.