An agency seal signals official provenance; its removal is a visible change.
A public record of who runs the federal web — and what quietly changes when no one is looking.
Daylight reads already-public data — the federal .gov ownership registry, certificate transparency logs, live page source — and keeps a timestamped, source-linked record of it. Reporters can subscribe to a name; anyone can ask who owns a .gov and whether it’s watching them.
daylight · what we’re seeing
A rotating look at what Daylight has noticed lately, in plain language — each observation drawn straight from public data, with a link to the full, timestamped finding.
Preview and staging names surface in public certificate logs — often before anything launches.
A domain leaving the federal registry can signal a quiet handoff or retirement.
daylight · what it watches
Who owns each federal .gov, and every change to the record.
New subdomains the day their certificate is issued.
Which build vendors quietly serve many agencies at once — and what's staged but not yet launched.
Is this .gov tracking you? Trackers, session replay, and tracking disguised as the site's own traffic.
What quietly disappeared — a dated, archived removal ledger.
changes · most recent
System status →Oct 30, 20261 change
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Oct 29, 20268 changes
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