Internet Services & Infrastructure Data: Routing Registries, BGP Archives and Domain Intelligence · Head-to-head
Public Suffix List vs BIS Total Credit & Debt Securities Statistics
Which internet services & infrastructure data: routing registries, bgp archives and domain intelligence data fits your job: Public Suffix List, or BIS Total Credit & Debt Securities Statistics. API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
Public Suffix List
BIS Total Credit & Debt Securities Statistics
What each contains
Pick by fit, not by loyalty.
| Public Suffix List | BIS Total Credit & Debt Securities Statistics | |
|---|---|---|
| Row identifier | `suffix` - one public suffix per line (com, co.uk) | `TITLE_TS` plus dimension codes (`BORROWERS_CTY`, `TC_BORROWERS`, `TC_LENDERS`) |
| Modifier / qualifier field | Wildcard rule (`*.ck`) matching any single label | `VALUATION` (market vs nominal face value) and `TC_ADJUST` (break-adjusted vs unadjusted) |
| Override / exception handling | Exception rule (`!www.ck`) outranking a wildcard | `OBS_STATUS` flagging observation quality states |
| Classification axis | ICANN DOMAINS vs PRIVATE DOMAINS sections | `TC_BORROWERS` sectors (government, non-financial corporations, households and NPISHs) and `TC_LENDERS` (all sectors vs banks only) |
| Provenance stamp | `VERSION` build timestamp and `COMMIT` SHA in the file header | `FREQ` and unit fields (`UNIT_TYPE`, `UNIT_MEASURE`, `UNIT_MULT`) pinning each series definition |
| Documentation text | Registry comment lines naming each registry and its amendment rules | Full human-readable series title concatenating country, sectors, valuation, unit and adjustment |
| Observation value | None - the file carries rules, not measurements | `<YYYY-Qn>` wide columns from 1940-Q2, or `TIME_PERIOD` / `OBS_VALUE` pairs in flat output |
| Documented fields | 8 | 14 |
What each does better
Public Suffix List
It is the parsing primitive for domains, not merely a list. Roughly 10,058 active suffix rules - including 283 wildcards and 8 exceptions - let software compute the registrable domain of any hostname worldwide, which is why browsers, cookie policy engines, email validators and web analytics stacks all lean on it; see host network mapping.
It distinguishes registry space from private space. The ICANN DOMAINS section holds suffixes delegated by registries; the PRIVATE DOMAINS section holds suffixes such as blogspot.com under which private parties register names - the distinction that keeps cookie scoping and security boundaries honest.
Change tracking is built into the artifact. Each build stamps its UTC timestamp and source commit, Unicode IDN labels ship beside punycode equivalents, comment lines document each registry's amendment rules, and bindings exist in most languages. It weighs about 333 KB - small enough to embed anywhere.
BIS Total Credit & Debt Securities Statistics
Sector-and-lender decomposition of national borrowing. Every series names who borrows - government, non-financial corporations, households and NPISHs, or the whole private non-financial sector - and who lends, all sources or domestic banks only, following the System of National Accounts 2008 framework; see sector balance sheets.
Valuation and unit flexibility on one grid. Government debt prints at market and nominal (face) values, consolidated on the government side while private data are unconsolidated, and every series publishes in domestic currency, US dollars, percent of GDP and percent of GDP at PPP exchange rates.
History that predates most statistical offices. The widest columns run quarterly back to 1940-Q2, with regional aggregates for the G20, advanced economies and emerging markets - reclassified as of January 2026 to move Czechia, Hong Kong SAR, Israel, Korea and Singapore into the advanced group.
Debt securities ride alongside. The companion set tracks international debt securities issued by residents of the reporting economies, so issuance-side funding complements the stock-of-credit view; sample rows show Japan's bank credit to the private non-financial sector at 778,654.5 billion yen for 2025-Q4 against US household credit at 68.1 percent of GDP.
The verdict
Verdict: sample both, pick by fit. Let the question decide, not the scores. If your problem is about hostnames - cookie scope, registrable-domain extraction, fraud screening on disposable domains, email validation, analytics roll-ups - Public Suffix List is the only correct tool in this pairing, and nothing macroeconomic substitutes for it.
If your problem is about leverage - household debt ratios, corporate borrowing, government debt sustainability, cross-country credit-to-GDP comparisons, debt securities issuance - BIS Total Credit & Debt Securities Statistics answers it, and no domain list helps.
Both records earn the same 9/10, so quality cannot arbitrate; cut each sample to the domains or economies and quarters you actually model, and let the returned rows make the call.
Sample both, pick by fit. See Public Suffix List · See BIS Total Credit & Debt Securities Statistics
Fair questions
Is Public Suffix List better than BIS Total Credit & Debt Securities Statistics?
They are not rivals - they answer different questions, tied at 9/10. The Public Suffix List decides where a hostname ends and its registrable domain begins, using about 10,058 rules across ICANN and private sections. BIS Total Credit & Debt Securities Statistics measures who owes what across 40-plus economies, quarterly, back to 1940-Q2. Pick by whether your question names a domain name or a debt stock.
Which dataset covers more countries?
The Public Suffix List is global by construction - every country-code TLD and its registry-defined sub-suffixes, plus privately operated suffixes worldwide. BIS covers more than 40 reporting economies plus G20, advanced-economy and emerging-market aggregates. Breadth favors the PSL; economic depth per country favors BIS.
Which dataset reaches further back in time?
BIS, by decades. Its quarterly credit series run back to 1940-Q2 in the widest columns, though most countries start later. The Public Suffix List was first released in 2007 and is continuously maintained - it carries current rules rather than history, with each daily rebuild stamped with a version and commit identifier.
Do Public Suffix List and BIS Total Credit & Debt Securities Statistics overlap anywhere?
Only in format, not substance. Both are plain tabular text keyed by explicit identifiers and both declare their vocabularies up front. One documents DNS suffix rules with wildcards and exceptions; the other publishes quarterly credit observations across sector, lender, valuation and unit dimensions. No field in either dictionary translates into the other.
Can Datadory deliver both datasets together?
Yes. Either record arrives alone or merged onto one delivery calendar - delivered daily, weekly, or hourly, your call. Name the domains or the economies, sectors and quarters you need when requesting a sample and it lands pre-cut, with field definitions and coverage profiles attached.