the WPAD report

WPAD Statistics

I was able to register several wpad-Domains: Security problems with wpad are well documented and appear if the domain is used for windows systems.

Hits for /wpad.dat

Month wpad.schule wpad.li wpad.school wpad.casa wpad.fr wpad.cz wpad.re various total

 

wpad.ovh was my proof of concept domain in August 2016, it was cheap and available. At this point I did not expect many hits on wpad.ovh but there are a few.
.wang was the 3rd biggest gtld-Domain in September 2016. I was not sure about the expected traffic, because I was not sure how often this is used as local domain for windows systems.
For wpad.schule I expected the highest traffic because two things come together: The various count are the domains without correct HTTP-Host-Header, I see wpad.localdomain or wpad or the ip only th this point.