{
  "port": 44501,
  "protocol": "tcp",
  "service": "Unassigned",
  "oneLiner": "Unregistered, unnamed, and rarely open — nothing conventional lives here.",
  "whatItIs": "44501 has no IANA registration and no service name in Nmap's database, which records it open on roughly 0.02% of scanned hosts. No documented product claims the number, so a listener is whatever the operator configured. It also falls inside the Linux ephemeral range, which accounts for a share of the sightings.",
  "exposure": {
    "verdict": "careful",
    "note": "With no known protocol behind the number, the only honest answer is to fingerprint the service and judge that instead."
  },
  "checkCommand": "nmap -sV -Pn -p 44501 TARGET",
  "links": [
    {
      "title": "IANA Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry — 44501",
      "url": "https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml?search=44501",
      "kind": "iana"
    },
    {
      "title": "nmap/nmap — nmap-services (port frequency database)",
      "url": "https://github.com/nmap/nmap/blob/master/nmap-services",
      "kind": "github"
    }
  ]
}