Case Study: University of Surrey Analyzes Global Passkey Adoption with WhoisXML API

University of Surrey analyzes passkey adoption across 100,000 websites with WhoisXML API

Researchers from the University of Surrey conducted a large-scale study to measure passkey authentication adoption but faced the challenge of adding geographic and industry context to their web measurement data. They needed reliable APIs to map domains and IP addresses to locations and sectors at scale, a challenge they solved using WhoisXML API's IP Geolocation and Website Categorization APIs.

WhoisXML API's solution enabled the University of Surrey researchers to enrich their dataset, associating passkey-enabled websites with specific geographic regions and industry sectors. This provided clear insights into the global distribution of deployments and identified which industries were leading in passkey adoption, a result directly powered by the vendor's data.

University of Surrey