Privacy Implications of Windows Server 2016 Telemetry: Summary: Top Domains for Telemetry Over HTTP

These domain names were collected from 505 days of continuous recording of Windows Server 2016 telemetry traffic. Virtual machine and traffic recording software was configured as explained here. Raw traffic dumps were processed as explained here.

List of http-related domains has 31 entry, sorted in descending order by total number of outgoing HTTP connections initiated by Windows Server 2016 operating system (with telemetry level set to zero (Security) and without any third party software). We did not include domains which had less than 3 outgoing HTTP connections.

14981 go.microsoft.com.
 9667 au.download.windowsupdate.com.
 2768 ctldl.windowsupdate.com.
 2349 7.au.download.windowsupdate.com.
 1902 download.windowsupdate.com.
 1185 ocsp.digicert.com.
  795 www.msftconnecttest.com.
  708 3.au.download.windowsupdate.com.
  430 2.au.download.windowsupdate.com.
  365 11.au.download.windowsupdate.com.
  288 9.au.download.windowsupdate.com.
   68 dmd.metaservices.microsoft.com.
   64 4.au.download.windowsupdate.com.
   44 001513-1.l.windowsupdate.com.
   39 000e86-1.l.windowsupdate.com.
   35 000507-1.l.windowsupdate.com.
   34 0004dc-1.l.windowsupdate.com.
   24 ocsp.msocsp.com.
   18 0005d6-1.l.windowsupdate.com.
   17 www.microsoft.com.
   17 00000d-1.l.windowsupdate.com.
   13 mscrl.microsoft.com.
   13 00113c-1.l.windowsupdate.com.
    8 0016be-1.l.windowsupdate.com.
    4 crl3.digicert.com.
    4 crl.microsoft.com.
    4 00163c-1.l.windowsupdate.com.
    3 001ebb-1.l.windowsupdate.com.
    3 001e99-1.l.windowsupdate.com.
    3 0013b9-1.l.windowsupdate.com.
    3 000aff-1.l.windowsupdate.com.