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Automated Website Trust & Risk Intelligence Report
https://scamlookup.net/website/cnn
Generated: Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:15:27 GMT
Target Website: cnn.com
Overall Trust Score: 94/100 (Trusted)
cnn.com
Trusted
Scanned: Sep 5, 11:15 AMTRUST SCORE
94
CONFIDENT
Low Risk
94/100
TRUST SCORE
CONFIDENT
Low Risk
SAFETY
89/100
89/100
TRANSPARENCY
70/100
70/100
DOMAIN RISK
LowLow Tier
LowRisk
SSL SECURITY
100/100
100/100
PAYMENT RISK
NoNo Risk
NoRisk
VERDICT
Trusted
Trusted
AI Security Summary
94/100 — trusted. Long-established domain (33.0 years old), clean threat reputation, no impersonation patterns. Verdict driven by: no contact page found; missing HSTS; large response served uncompressed — worth extra caution before trusting.
No malware/phishing on feedsGood reputationHTTPS enabled
HTTPS & SSL
SecureSecure
Standard Trusted CA
Threat Status
CleanClean
No blacklists or malware
Domain Age
33.0 years33.0 years
Registered 9/22/1993
Reputation
High TrustHigh Trust
Based on 65+ verified signals
IP & Server
151.101.3.5151.101.3.5
cloudflare
Email Security
ProtectedProtected
SPF, DMARC, MX active
Performance
76 / 10076 / 100
Standard speed
Redirects
1 Hop1 Hop
Redirect chain analyzed
Top Priority RecommendationAction Needed
Missing HSTS
Tells browsers to only use HTTPS for this domain.
Why it matters
Addressing this signal prevents trust downgrades and potential security risks.
View Glossary GuidePositive Signals
- Site responded with 200
- HTTPS is enforced
- Fast response (196ms)
- Served through Cloudflare
- 8 address record(s) resolved
- IPv6 (AAAA) available
- 4 authoritative nameservers
- Domain registered 33+ years ago
Warnings
- Missing HSTS
- No contact page found
- Large response served uncompressed
- Heavy HTML payload (5177.9 KB)
Critical Issues
No critical issues found
Domain passes all high-risk checks
- Registrar Name
- Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE
- Creation Date
- September 22, 1993 (33.0 years ago)
- Last Updated
- April 22, 2025
- Registry Expiry Date
- September 21, 2027
- WHOIS Privacy Protection
- Publicly Visible
- Domain Status Codes
- client delete prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited, server delete prohibited, server transfer prohibited, server update prohibited
ICANN Status Badges
client delete prohibitedclient transfer prohibitedclient update prohibitedserver delete prohibitedserver transfer prohibitedserver update prohibited
Domain registered 33+ years ago
Long-established domains are far less likely to be disposable scams.
+15
Registered via Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE
Owner information disclosed
The domain publishes registrant contact info — a small positive transparency signal.
+2
Security Header Baseline
Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
Content-Security-PolicyMissing
X-Frame-OptionsMissing
X-Content-Type-Options Present
Referrer-PolicyMissing
Permissions-PolicyMissing
Recommended Missing Headers
missing: HSTSmissing: X-Frame-Optionsmissing: Referrer Policymissing: Permissions Policy
All Response Headers (23)
Missing HSTS
Tells browsers to only use HTTPS for this domain.
-4
Content Security Policy is set
Restricts which scripts and resources the page can load.
+5
Missing X-Frame-Options
Prevents clickjacking by disallowing framing.
-3
X-Content-Type-Options is set
Blocks MIME-sniffing browser attacks.
+2
Missing Referrer Policy
Controls what referrer information is sent with requests.
-2
Missing Permissions Policy
Restricts access to powerful browser features (camera, mic, etc.).
-2
- IPv4 Addresses (A)
- 151.101.3.5, 151.101.67.5, 151.101.195.5, 151.101.131.5
- IPv6 Addresses (AAAA)
- 2a04:4e42:200::773, 2a04:4e42:400::773, 2a04:4e42::773, 2a04:4e42:600::773
- Mail Servers (MX)
- cnn-com.mail.protection.outlook.com (Priority: 10)
- Authoritative Nameservers (NS)
- ns-1242.awsdns-27.org, ns-1652.awsdns-14.co.uk, ns-378.awsdns-47.com, ns-587.awsdns-09.net
- TXT Records Found
- 19 TXT verification records
A Records (IPv4)
151.101.3.5151.101.67.5151.101.195.5151.101.131.5
TXT Verification Records
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98f06e94-b4da-4343-86be-c6c1667205e6
_globalsign-domain-verification=nPcGMc5MexVHi5gaiJ3TNZjT3fI_seEOQWXPUSMmWm
adobe-idp-site-verification=279ead95-3581-42b7-82f4-73c97f8cebfa
atlassian-domain-verification=joqe6L8dNi+aisGbB1XHQa0pDc53V2l0GQQRUtLEcr2997x0+rtrAA5Zw+UgQw3u
canva-site-verification=C8ADd96ykBUHF3wyVjPyXQ
cisco-ci-domain-verification=4a1c92ef69fe42f8125c3ca9ce0696dcf6cc16fa80243257de578af593d19548
d1xTs9+kADZZSz3bPphLpkMXXxBGjqn5vsQHhi2M6lo0r8AdIbm6j8LfQXPujsywVgeGSP+AXWX0vO9Iep5cUg==
facebook-domain-verification=xszi21kow2trmw3xt3ph6s631zyu3i
google-site-verification=R-Btow3Z8oU_9H1IWU4Gm4lvUQ_OVmsfxonIKhIaiPE
google-site-verification=_QivaXNjhXy-V1y_YqrycXdAWZi2mVrcwbXerX6THeY
google-site-verification=cNhH3bbaizgJp34tQo2r1NgKE0YYLIPNOOvcBVTT5Pk
google-site-verification=j2gGPSOzQ_1vx08SNjoGR7G8PfAIAThdvkPr_KdQGkc
google-site-verification=zLPPRYQh2mgpr-Yhg_8j8Z04d1okax7bGsPDmHlrfN0
jamf-site-verification=n384y4ilec6xqi08ShxAOg
miro-verification=1e01f8da769be1241fceefd9abf2c317dcd68323
mongodb-site-verification=mtrxHeW3jOzWtwEwnOLpeQo9NXh6Lqas
stripe-verification=42CDB310484C1CAA878F12A73EB7505EA6E7F154731CD7E4F5ABB574DE5E7725
v=spf1 include:cnn.com._nspf.vali.email include:%{i}._ip.%{h}._ehlo.%{d}._spf.vali.email include:mail.zendesk.com ~all
8 address record(s) resolved
+4
IPv6 (AAAA) available
Modern dual-stack setup.
+2
4 authoritative nameservers
+2
- Registrable Domain
- cnn.com
- Registrar Organization
- Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE
- WHOIS Privacy Status
- Public Registration Data
- Registry Status Codes
- client delete prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited, server delete prohibited, server transfer prohibited, server update prohibited
- Delegated Authoritative Nameservers
- ns-1242.awsdns-27.org, ns-1652.awsdns-14.co.uk, ns-378.awsdns-47.com, ns-587.awsdns-09.net
- Registration Lifecycle
- Registered: 1993 → Expires: 2027
Nameservers (NS)
ns-1242.awsdns-27.orgns-1652.awsdns-14.co.ukns-378.awsdns-47.comns-587.awsdns-09.net
Domain registered 33+ years ago
Long-established domains are far less likely to be disposable scams.
+15
Registered via Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE
Owner information disclosed
The domain publishes registrant contact info — a small positive transparency signal.
+2
- SPF Record
- v=spf1 include:cnn.com._nspf.vali.email include:%{i}._ip.%{h}._ehlo.%{d}._spf.vali.email include:mail.zendesk.com ~all
- DMARC Policy Mode
- Policy: REJECT
- DMARC Raw Record
- v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:dmarc_agg@vali.email; ruf=mailto:Njk3@ruf.vali.email
- DKIM Selectors Detected
- selector1, s1, s2
Email Protection Summary: This domain has strong email authentication configured to prevent spammers from sending emails impersonating this brand.
SPF record published
+5
DMARC published (reject)
+6
DKIM configured (selector1, s1, s2)
+3
URLhaus Malware
Clean / Not Listed
PhishStats Feed
Clean / Not Listed
Google Safe Browsing
Not checked
- Root Domain Label
- cnn
- Top-Level Domain (TLD)
- .com (Standard TLD)
- Punycode Obfuscation
- No (Standard ASCII)
- Homoglyph / Lookalike Script
- No mixed scripts
- Brand Match Analysis
- No recognized brand impersonation
- Typosquatting Risk
- Clean
No impersonation patterns detected
Domain doesn't look like a typosquat, doesn't embed a well-known brand, and uses ASCII characters.
+8
Detected Technologies by Category
js
Svelte
analytics
Google AnalyticsGoogle Tag Manager
cdn
Cloudflare
Page Metadata & Fingerprint
- HTML Title
- Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN
- Meta Description
- View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.
- Document Language
- en
- Character Encoding
- utf-8
- Viewport Setting
- width=device-width,initial-scale=1,shrink-to-fit=no
- Generator Software
- —
4 technologies detected
Svelte, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Cloudflare
Mobile viewport configured
+2
Items to Fix & Optimize
Text compression (Brotli/Gzip)
MUCH NEEDEDEnable on server or CDN
Heavy HTML Payload
RECOMMENDEDMinify HTML and bundle assets
Modern image formats (WebP/AVIF/SVG)
OPTIONALConvert heavy images to WebP/AVIF
Protocol
HTTP/3
QUIC-based, multiplexed
Compression
NONE
No compression detected
Optimization Signals (From Detectable Headers & Assets)
Image Formats
Legacy / Unchecked
Transfer
Uncompressed
Transport
QUIC/H3
These are server-side signals. Actual Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) require real-user measurement via PageSpeed Insights.
Detected Asset & Image Formats
WebPAVIFSVGJPEGPNG
- HTTP Response Time
- 196 ms
- Payload Body Size
- 5177.9 KB
- Compression Status
- Uncompressed
- Cache Directives
- max-age=60
Large response served uncompressed
Enable gzip or brotli at the edge to cut transfer size dramatically.
-3
Heavy HTML payload (5177.9 KB)
-3
Response is cache-friendly
max-age=60
+2
AI Content Evaluation
94/100 — trusted. Long-established domain (33.0 years old), clean threat reputation, no impersonation patterns. Verdict driven by: no contact page found; missing HSTS; large response served uncompressed — worth extra caution before trusting.
- Payment Red Flags
- None (No suspicious payment requests)
- High-Pressure Language
- None (No artificial urgency detected)
- Disposable Domain Risk
- No (Established infrastructure)
- Text Scanned Depth
- 31,573 characters verified
No scam-correlated language found on the home page
No crypto-only / gift-card / wire-only payment demands, and no obvious urgency tactics.
+6
- Primary Web Server
- cloudflare
- CDN / Cloud Provider
- Cloudflare
- Primary IP Address
- 151.101.3.5
- HTTP Status Code
- 200 OK
- Final Landing Destination
- https://www.cnn.com/
- Redirect Hop Count
- 1 hop
Redirect Hop Chain
- 1.https://cnn.com/ → https://www.cnn.com/
Site responded with 200
Final URL: https://www.cnn.com/. Response time 196ms.
+8
HTTPS is enforced
All redirects stayed on HTTPS. Traffic is encrypted end-to-end.
+10
Fast response (196ms)
+6
Served through Cloudflare
Sites behind a major CDN benefit from DDoS protection and edge caching.
+4
- Certificate Authority (Issuer)
- Standard Trusted CA
- Subject Common Name (CN)
- cnn.com
- Validity Period
- 60 days remaining (Expires: 2026-11-04T11:15:31.377Z)
- Subject Alternative Names (SANs)
- 1 domain protected
- Certificates Logged (CT)
- 1 certs recorded
Subject Alternative Names (Sample)
cnn.com
HTTPS encryption active & verified
Live TLS connection established successfully on port 443 with valid cipher suites.
+8
Key Legal & Transparency Pages
- Published Phone Numbers
- 8093886296, 0109748382709, 72361606-06, 102325203, 845950312, 147027733
Privacy policy linked from home page
+6
Terms of service linked from home page
+5
No contact page found
Reputable sites usually publish a contact page.
-4
No about page found
Reputable sites usually publish a about page.
-3
No refund/return policy found
Reputable sites usually publish a refund/return policy.
-3
No cookie policy found
Reputable sites usually publish a cookie policy.
-2
5 social profile(s) linked
twitter, facebook, instagram, youtube, tiktok
+3
Phone number published
+2
- Robots.txt Directives
- Present & Configured
- Sitemaps Declared
- https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/news.xml, https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/article/cnn-underscored.xml, https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/section/cnn-underscored.xml, https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/section/politics.xml, https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/article/opinions.xml, https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/article.xml, https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/section.xml, https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/video.xml, https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/gallery.xml, https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/markets/stocks.xml, https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/live-story.xml, https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/election-center/politics.xml, https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/tve.xml
- Disallow Rules Count
- 38 rules
View Raw robots.txt
Sitemap: https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/news.xml Sitemap: https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/article/cnn-underscored.xml Sitemap: https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/section/cnn-underscored.xml Sitemap: https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/section/politics.xml Sitemap: https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/article/opinions.xml Sitemap: https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/article.xml Sitemap: https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/section.xml Sitemap: https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/video.xml Sitemap: https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/gallery.xml Sitemap: https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/markets/stocks.xml Sitemap: https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/live-story.xml Sitemap: https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/election-center/politics.xml Sitemap: https://www.cnn.com/sitemap/tve.xml User-agent: AI2Bot User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma User-agent: AliyunSecBot User-agent: Amazonbot User-agent: amzn-searchbot User-agent: amzn-user User-agent: anthropic-ai User-agent: Applebot-Extended User-agent: Archive.org_bot User-agent: AwarioRssBot User-agent: AwarioSmartBot User-agent: Brightbot 1.0 User-agent: Bytespider User-agent: CCBot User-agent: ChatGPT-User User-agent: ClaudeBot User-agent: Claude-SearchBot User-agent: Claude-User User-agent: Claude-Web User-agent: cohere-ai User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler User-agent: Crawlspace User-agent: DataForSeoBot User-agent: Diffbot User-agent: DuckAssistBot User-agent: EchoboxBot User-agent: Exabot User-agent: FacebookBot User-agent: FriendlyCrawler User-agent: GPTBot User-agent: Google-Extended User-agent: GoogleOther User-agent: GoogleOther-Image User-agent: GoogleOther-Video User-Agent: IAB-Tech-Lab User-agent: iaskspider/2.0 User-agent: ICC-Crawler User-agent: img2dataset User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler User-agent: ImagesiftBot User-agent: Kangaroo Bot User-agent: magpie-crawler User-agent: MistralAI-user User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot User-agent: NewsNow User-agent: news-please User-agent: OAI-SearchBot User-agent: omgili User-agent: omgilibot User-agent: PanguBot User-agent: Panscient User-agent: PiplBot User-agent: PerplexityBot User-agent: Perplexity-User User-agent: PetalBot User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler User-agent: QuillBot User-agent: quillbot.com User-agent: Quora-Bot User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot User-agent: Scrapy User-agent: SeekrBot User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA User-agent: SeznamHomepageCrawler User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot User-agent: TaraGroup Intelligence Bot User-agent: Timpibot User-agent: TurnitinBot User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler User-agent: ViennaTinyBot User-agent: Webzio-Extended User-agent: YandexAdditional User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot User-agent: YouBot Disallow: / User-agent: * Allow: /partners/ipad/live-video.json Disallow: /*.jsx$ Disallow: *.jsx$ Disallow: /*.jsx/ Disallow: *.jsx? Disallow: /ads/ Disallow: /aol/ Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /beta/ Disallow: /browsers/ Disallow: /cl/ Disallow: /cnews/ Disallow: /cnn_adspaces Disallow: /cnnbeta/ Disallow: /cnnintl_adspaces Disallow: /development Disallow: /editionssi Disallow: /help/cnnx.html Disallow: /NewsPass Disallow: /NOKIA Disallow: /partners/ Disallow: /pipeline/ Disallow: /pointroll/ Disallow: /POLLSERVER/ Disallow: /pr/ Disallow: /PV/ Disallow: /Quickcast/ Disallow: /quickcast/ Disallow: /QUICKNEWS/ Disallow: /search Disallow: /subscriptions/video-docs Disallow: /terms Disallow: /test/ Disallow: /virtual/ Disallow: /WEB-INF/ Disallow: /web.projects/ Disallow: /webview/ User-agent: Googlebot-News Disallow: /sponsor
robots.txt published
+2
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Scan Engine Performance
Automated multi-signal inspection pipeline
Signals Analyzed
40
This scan
Sources Checked
18
Live security feeds
Scan Duration
3.85s
Ultra-fast
Last Scan
9/5/2026
Live timestamp
Overall Risk
Low Risk