Hello!

Welcome to our new launch of the BrightCloud Web Services (BCWS).

It’s an exciting moment for us, but first let me tell you a little about who we are and how we built this database of information we’re making available to you.

Here at BrightCloud we’ve been working very hard since the beginning of 2006 to develop the most accurate, most comprehensive, and most reliable database of URLs and IP addresses. For the first few years we were very focused on building the quality of our database and powering web filtering solutions of top industry players. Please visit our corporate website at http://www.brightcloud.com if you want more details on that.

After having a lot of great success in the OEM web filtering market, we decided to turn our sights to the more numerous market of “everyone else.” This is why we created BCWS.

We made a few changes to our API to support “everyone else” and we hope to make it easier and easier over time so that we can help add value to even more of the internet’s applications! We’ve already got some sample code up on the website, and we’re working to create a few sample applications to help jog your imagination a bit as well. Those will be up shortly and announced here when they’re available.

By effectively classifying the web into various “useful” categories, we hope we can make your existing applications easier to use or more useful to your end-users. Feel free to ask questions here and we’ll get to them as quickly as we can. Please also drop us a line and introduce yourself – we’d love to see/hear what you’re using our API for and how we can help you make it even better!

Best,

Chris