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Ghost
Ghost is an open-source publishing platform for blogs, magazines and newsletters, with member accounts, paid subscriptions and email sending. It runs on the Ghost(Pro) hosted service or on a self-managed server.
The websites on Ghost are publications first: independent writers, niche newsletters, company blogs, developer documentation and content-led startups. Self-hosting needs a Node.js server, so many sites belong to developers and technical founders; the hosted plan attracts writers building a paid-membership business. Either way, the operator publishes regularly and often monetises content directly.
Sellers who want this audience are newsletter and email infrastructure providers, payment and subscription billing services, hosting companies and managed Node.js platforms, theme and plugin developers, analytics and SEO tools aimed at publishers, sponsorship and advertising networks, and podcast or course platforms that creators add to a membership. A new Ghost site has just launched a publication and is deciding on its monetisation stack; a dropped site has migrated, often to or from WordPress or a newsletter platform.
Ghost is the platform behind 47,243 websites, which is 0.1% of all CMS detections we record. Websites built on Ghost are most often served from Germany (22,036), United States (8,640) and Japan (1,253), and .com, .io and .org are the most common domain endings. The most common versions are 6.73 (16,022 sites) and 6.74 (7,644).
Websites using Ghost
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25 days ago 3 websites used Ghost; today it is 47,243 (+1574666.7%).
Top countries for Ghost
Top TLDs
Ghost versions in use
Sample of 15 websites using Ghost
best-ranked first; the full list has 47,243| Domain | Country | Majestic rank | NetAPI rank | Contacts | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| igvita.com | DE | 1,472 | 2,697 | 2026-10-12 | |
| opendemocracy.net | DE | 3,082 | 7,510 | 2026-10-10 | |
| 404media.co | DE | 3,563 | 8,046 | 2026-10-14 | |
| hyperallergic.com | US | 4,604 | 9,437 | 2026-10-11 | |
| itsfoss.com | - | 6,907 | 12,874 | 2026-10-13 | |
| troyhunt.com | - | 10,060 | 20,068 | 2026-10-08 | |
| uploadvr.com | DE | 12,285 | 22,270 | 2026-10-16 | |
| sfist.com | - | 13,514 | 23,882 | 2026-10-08 | |
| the-race.com | DE | 34,162 | 24,554 | 2026-10-08 | |
| hostingpics.net | US | 13,952 | 24,745 | 2026-10-16 | |
| quillette.com | - | 14,484 | 26,217 | 2026-10-09 | |
| wheresyoured.at | DE | 15,510 | 27,325 | 2026-10-12 | |
| ppc.land | - | 16,515 | 29,515 | 2026-10-12 | |
| platformer.news | DE | 16,623 | 30,457 | 2026-10-15 | |
| cascadepbs.org | DE | 19,119 | 32,359 | 2026-10-10 |
Websites that started using Ghost in the last 7 days
sample of 15; the full list has 700Period:last 7 dayslast 14 dayslast 30 dayslast 60 dayslast 90 days
| Domain | Country | Majestic rank | NetAPI rank | Contacts | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| publikum.net | - | 868,049 | - | 2026-10-30 | |
| hipaa.com | US | 936,784 | - | phone | 2026-10-30 |
| 04zeh.com | - | - | - | 2026-10-31 | |
| 0xschizo.com | DE | - | - | 2026-10-28 | |
| 100mm.blog | FR | - | - | 2026-10-31 | |
| 2050.digital | DE | - | - | 2026-10-28 | |
| 365writingpromptsforkids.com | US | - | - | 2026-10-31 | |
| 456327043.xyz | US | - | - | 2026-10-31 | |
| 78976066.xyz | US | - | - | 2026-11-01 | |
| aboboradoce.club | - | - | - | 2026-10-30 | |
| about-creative-capital.com | DE | - | - | 2026-10-31 | |
| absolutegreed.com | - | - | - | 2026-10-30 | |
| abstract27.co.uk | DE | - | - | 2026-10-29 | |
| abstract27.com | DE | - | - | 2026-10-31 | |
| abstract27.fr | DE | - | - | 2026-10-30 |
Websites that stopped using Ghost in the last 7 days
sample of 15; the full list has 1,333Period:last 7 dayslast 14 dayslast 30 dayslast 60 dayslast 90 days
| Domain | Country | Majestic rank | NetAPI rank | Contacts | Dropped |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| exploros.com | US | - | 258,356 | 2026-10-30 | |
| lichfieldlive.co.uk | - | 554,076 | 277,072 | 2026-10-29 | |
| slashroot.in | - | 596,617 | 968,633 | 2026-10-30 | |
| daylerees.com | - | 689,963 | - | 2026-10-28 | |
| 0manzel.bigmaxxxl.de | DE | - | - | 2026-10-27 | |
| 140041.t89.cn | CN | - | - | 2026-10-28 | |
| 25h.life | - | - | - | 2026-10-30 | |
| 3dlabdanmark.com | DE | - | - | 2026-10-30 | |
| 3dlabdanmark.dk | DE | - | - | 2026-10-28 | |
| 3dlabdenmark.com | DE | - | - | 2026-10-31 | |
| 3dpassion.net | - | - | - | 2026-10-28 | |
| 40ymail.com | DE | - | - | 2026-10-30 | |
| 51stnews.org | US | - | - | 2026-10-27 | |
| 78981025.xyz | US | - | - | 2026-10-31 | |
| 78981063.xyz | US | - | - | 2026-10-31 |
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Questions about Ghost websites
How many websites are built on Ghost?
As of November 2, 2026, 47,243 websites are built on Ghost. The number is recalculated every night from our own crawl of the web, so it follows real launches and migrations.
Who buys lists of Ghost websites?
Agencies and freelancers who build, maintain or migrate Ghost sites, vendors of plugins, themes and hosting for Ghost, and anyone selling a tool that integrates with it: every website on the list is a business that has already chosen the platform and keeps paying to run it.
Where are Ghost websites hosted?
Germany leads with 22,036 websites, followed by United States (8,640) and Japan (1,253). The country is where the website is served from; sites on a hosted platform show the platform's country.
How do I find websites that recently moved to Ghost?
The New tab on this page lists websites where our crawler saw Ghost for the first time in the last days, newest first: new launches and migrations from other platforms. The Dropped tab shows websites that moved away from Ghost. Both lists download with a subscription and are refreshed every morning.
How do I get a list of Ghost websites?
A free BetaScan account downloads a {sample_rows}-row sample. A subscription from $69 a month gives the full list of 47,243 domains, or a dataset with emails, phones, country, hosting and ranks, filtered by country, TLD, rank and registration date. The lists of websites that recently moved to or away from Ghost are included. See pricing.
How does BetaScan detect Ghost?
Our crawler fetches the homepage of every domain we track and matches the page and its response headers against the signatures of 7,636 technologies. A website counts as using Ghost when its latest crawl shows the signature; when the signature disappears, the site moves to the dropped list.
How can you tell a website runs Ghost?
Ghost adds a meta generator tag with the name and major version, serves theme assets from /assets/built/ and images from /content/images/, and exposes member and portal scripts such as portal.min.js or sodo-search from the Ghost CDN. Feeds live at /rss/. Our crawler matches these tags and paths on the homepage, which also reveals the version in use.
Is Ghost used by large companies or small ones?
Mostly individuals and small publishers, with a minority of well-known media brands and companies that use it for their blog or documentation. The hosted plans are priced by audience size, so larger sites in the list tend to be successful newsletters rather than corporations. For a seller, the typical contact is the publisher or founder personally.
What does a new Ghost site mean for a seller?
A writer or team has just set up a publication and is choosing how to grow and monetise it: email deliverability, payment processing, theme design, analytics, sponsorship and audience growth tools are all bought in the first months. Dropped sites show publishers who changed platform, a moment when they also reconsider their hosting, email and payment vendors.