Original data · weekly · aggregate-only
The Obituary Piracy Index
Weekly aggregate statistics from Obituary Watch's monitoring of obituary republication. Aggregates only, forever: no decedent names, no obituary text, no photos, no funeral home names - patterns, never people.
Week of 2026-09-28: 8 funeral home sites scanned · 0 obituaries analyzed · 0 republication signals · 0 livestream-pattern domains observed.
Trailing weeks
| Week | Homes scanned | Obituaries analyzed | Republication signals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-28 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-21 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-07 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-31 | 9 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-24 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-17 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Registry snapshot
The monitoring registry currently tracks 2 known republication domains (curated: every entry carries documented, customer- confirmed, or multi-home machine evidence). In the last 24 hours the fresh-domain monitor logged 65 candidate domains for review. Candidate discovery currently runs on certificate-transparency, direct-crawl, and web-search signals.
Methodology
Obituary Watch compares funeral homes' own published obituaries against a curated registry of republication domains and against freshly registered domains from certificate-transparency logs, using deterministic similarity signals: text-shingle overlap, perceptual photo hashing, domain near-name distance, livestream/payment vocabulary clusters, and publication-timing windows. Counts here are signals observed, not adjudications about any site or company. Licensed CC BY 4.0 - cite as "Bikoosh Obituary Piracy Index".
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