Download websites that use Gnuboard

About Gnuboard

Very few web platforms stay inside one country the way Gnuboard has. As of September 2026 we detect Gnuboard on 53,203 sites, and 46,762 of them resolve to South Korea. The domain suffix tells the same story, with .kr running through the list. A CMS written in PHP and released under GPL v2, Gnuboard dates to 2001, which puts its origins in the period when the Korean web was building its own conventions instead of importing them.

Understanding what an install implies matters more than the count. Gnuboard began as bulletin board software and grew into a general publishing system, so a site running it is usually organised around member accounts, posting and threaded discussion rather than around a marketing brochure. Korean community portals, school and church sites, regional news outlets and small company sites all sit on it. A domain running the software is therefore a reasonable proxy for a locally built, locally hosted property, often produced by a nearby web agency working with a familiar stack rather than by an international vendor.

The audience for a full list is narrower and more specific than the audience for a lookup tool. Anyone entering the Korean market with a hosting product, a payment gateway, a plugin, a security service or a migration offer is looking at a defined population of sites that share one technology, one language of administration and one set of upgrade problems. Security researchers care for a different reason, because a codebase with a long history and a large plugin ecosystem accumulates known vulnerabilities, and the useful question is how many live sites still carry an aging install rather than whether any single domain does. Market research on the Korean web runs into the same wall, since national platform share cannot be measured one domain at a time.

Detection has limits worth stating. Identification comes from markup patterns, script and directory paths and other fingerprints left in the page, so a heavily reskinned install, an aggressive caching layer or a site sitting behind a front end proxy can hide it. Sites that keep the software on an internal or members only section, with a static front page, will also be missed. Version data is not recorded for this entry, which means the dataset can tell you that a domain runs the platform but not which generation of it. The count is best read as a floor, and the geographic pattern as the more robust of the two signals.

What the download gives you is the list itself, with the domain, the detection and the accompanying fields, so the population can be filtered, joined against your own records and counted. A per domain lookup answers a question about one site. The dataset answers questions about a market.