Merchant list research
There's no public list of every Shopify store. To build your own merchant list, collect candidate domains, confirm each one runs Shopify, then write down what you saw and when. Agencies, app developers and sales researchers can do all three with free tools.
Each source below gives you domains to check. None of them proves a store runs Shopify today.
Search site:myshopify.com plus a product word, such as site:myshopify.com "candles". Every Shopify store gets a myshopify.com address.
Limit. Stores that use their own domain usually redirect the myshopify.com address to it, so the results lean toward new, small or unlaunched stores.
Search for a product word with inurl:/collections/ or inurl:/products/. Shopify themes use those paths for category and product pages.
Limit. Other platforms use the same paths, so treat every result as a candidate until it passes the checks below.
Open the reviews of an app your buyers would also use. Each review shows the store name, the country and how long the store has used the app.
Limit. Store names aren't linked, so search each name to find its domain. A review shows the store used the app at some point, not that it still runs Shopify.
Shopify's domain setup guide tells merchants to point their root domain at 23.227.38.65. Reverse IP lookup tools list domains seen on that address.
Limit. Reverse IP lists are partial, and some listings are old. Thousands of unrelated stores share the address, so the results aren't sorted by niche.
BuiltWith, Store Leads and similar tools let you filter stores by platform, country or app. This is the fastest way to get a long list.
Limit. Check when each record was last seen. A store can move platforms or close after a directory recorded it.
On 22 October 2026, WhosBuilt ran these checks once against the four public example stores on the Shopify company list, tentree.com, maguireshoes.com, artisaire.com and goodeeworld.com. The header and DNS checks are the quickest. They work even when a store blocks automated page requests.
curl -sI https://www.tentree.com/ | grep -i powered-bySeen on the four stores. All four. goodeeworld.com answered the request with HTTP 429 (too many requests), and that response still carried the header.
dig +short CNAME www.tentree.comSeen on the four stores. All four.
dig +short A tentree.comSeen on the four stores. All four. Three used 23.227.38.65, the address in Shopify's setup guide; tentree.com used 23.227.38.32.
View source, then search for "Shopify.theme" and "myshopify.com"Seen on the four stores. Three of four. The fourth page wasn't read because of the 429 response.
dig +short TXT tentree.comSeen on the four stores. One of four. Don't require it.
Count a store when the header or DNS points at Shopify and the page source agrees. If only one check passes, mark it for a second look instead of adding it. To check a single domain without a terminal, run a WhosBuilt lookup or use the CMS checker.
A marker shows that the host you checked served a Shopify storefront on the day you checked. It doesn't show any of the following.
Keep the check date next to every row. A list without dates can't tell you which stores have moved since. For the wider picture of company technology data, see what technographic data is and where it comes from.
WhosBuilt's Shopify list has 100 reviewed company accounts, checked 4 October 2026. Each account passed on storefront, theme and checkout markers in the merchant's own HTML. The list shows these public rows.
These rows are examples and don't represent all Shopify stores.