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What Is This Domain in My Cookie Audit?

You ran a cookie scan, a CMP audit or a privacy report, and it returned a list of domains your site contacts. Some are obvious. Others — omtrdc.net, demdex.net, mxpnl.com — give no clue who owns them or what they do.

This page maps them. Every entry comes from our own measurement: we installed each tool on the same page and recorded which external hosts it actually contacted, rather than trusting vendor documentation.


1. The lookup table

Sorted alphabetically by domain, which is how you will be reading it.

DomainToolWhat it doesPartyResolves
api-js.mixpanel.comMixpanelEvent ingestionThirdUS
assets.adobedtm.comAdobe LaunchTag manager deliveryThirdAkamai CDN
cdn.mxpnl.comMixpanelLibrary deliveryThirdUS
cdn.usefathom.comFathom AnalyticsScript and collectionThird
collect.yourdomain.comSealMetricsCollection, on your own subdomainFirstYour DNS
d1.sc.omtrdc.netAdobe AnalyticsCollectionThird
.demdex.netAdobe Experience Cloud IDIdentity and ID syncThirdAWS Dublin
dpm.demdex.netAdobe Experience Cloud IDID sync endpointThirdAWS Dublin
google-analytics.comGA4CollectionThirdEU CDN
googletagmanager.comGoogle Tag ManagerScript deliveryThirdUS
gtm-msr.appspot.comGoogle Tag ManagerPreview and debug sandboxThird
plausible.ioPlausibleScript and collectionThird
queue.simpleanalyticscdn.comSimple AnalyticsCollection queueThird
region1.google-analytics.comGA4Regional collectionThirdUS
sc.omtrdc.netAdobe AnalyticsCollectionThird
us-assets.i.posthog.comPostHogAsset deliveryThirdUS
us.posthog.comPostHogCollectionThirdUS
yourname.containers.piwik.proPiwik PROTag managerThirdEU/US
yourname.piwik.proPiwik PROCollectionThirdEU/US

The yourname. and yourdomain.com portions vary per account — the rest of the hostname is the identifying part.


2. How to read the "Party" column

Third-party means the domain is not yours. The browser treats cookies set there as third-party cookies, which Safari and Firefox block by default and Chrome restricts. It also means a DNS lookup and a connection to infrastructure you do not control, on every page load.

First-party means the request goes to a subdomain of your own site. Cookies set there survive browser restrictions, and there is no cross-origin request to justify in an assessment.

Two things this column does not tell you:

  • First-party does not mean "no consent needed." ePrivacy Article 5(3) governs storage on the device, not who owns the domain. A first-party cookie still requires consent. What removes the requirement is storing nothing at all.
  • Some tools can be configured either way. Adobe supports a CNAME implementation that moves the visitor ID to your own domain. Check your own setup rather than assuming the default.

3. What "Resolves" tells you, and what it does not

Where a hostname resolves is a useful fact and a weak argument.

It is useful because a domain resolving to US infrastructure means a cross-border transfer to document. It is weak because the reverse does not hold: dpm.demdex.net resolves to AWS Dublin, inside the EU, and that does not make the transfer question go away. Schrems II turns on legal access regimes — who can compel disclosure — rather than on where the packet lands.

So treat an EU result as one input to the assessment, not as the conclusion. And do not repeat the inverse shortcut that "a US company means the data leaves the EU"; on this evidence it is simply not true.


4. Checking your own site

The table tells you what a domain is. Only your own site tells you what it is doing.

  1. Open your site in a private window, DevTools on the Network tab.
  2. Reload and sort by domain. Compare what appears against the table above.
  3. Note the timestamp of each collection request. That is when measurement starts; anything before it is unmeasured.
  4. Reload with an ad blocker enabled. Anything that disappears is a domain your reports silently lose.
  5. Reload with the consent banner rejected. Anything that still fires is a compliance finding rather than a data one.

Steps 4 and 5 are the ones worth recording. The first three describe your setup; the last two tell you whether it behaves the way you think it does.


5. Detail pages

Domains with enough going on to need their own page: