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est. 1999 designboom is the first and most popular digital magazine for architecture & design culture. daily news for a professional and creative audience.

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Updated: 2026-09-03 17:25 Language: English (default) Access: Normal

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Website Overview

An established domain and managed infrastructure suggest continuity of operations and may support dependable delivery, although neither guarantees service quality. Several search or sharing settings need attention. Together they may make snippets, preview images or preferred URLs less consistent across platforms.

Domain and Registration

Registered in 1999, this domain has about 26 years of history. That suggests continuity, although ownership and purpose may have changed. Transfer-protection status is present, helping reduce the risk of unauthorized domain transfers. The registrar is Tucows Domains Inc., a widely used domain service provider. The domain uses the common .com extension, which is not an independent safety signal.

DNS and Email

Nameservers are provided by Cloudflare, indicating managed DNS hosting. MX records point to the xtsystem.it email service. No CNAME was found; the observed records resolve directly to addresses. SPF and DMARC are configured. DKIM status is unknown. DNSSEC signatures were not detected, so this additional DNS authenticity protection is not confirmed.

TLS and Certificates

The public key uses EC with 256 bits. The server supplied a complete certificate chain. No organization name is present in the certificate; the available fields are consistent with domain validation. The certificate was issued within the Google Trust Services cloud or CDN ecosystem. The certificate's total validity is about 90 days, consistent with a short renewal cycle.

HTTP and Browser Security

X-Powered-By exposes backend information: W3 Total Cache/2.9.4. The response lacks these common security headers: HSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy. CORS permits any origin to read this response. This is common for public resources; sensitive responses need narrower handling. The cf-ray response header indicates a CDN or caching proxy in the delivery path. No obvious internal addresses or debug information were found in the headers.

Technology Stack Analysis

The public page identifies WordPress, Google Tag Manager, Cloudflare without precise versions, leaving fewer clues for version-specific scanning.

Search and Social Sharing

The title has 75 characters and may be truncated in search results. Open Graph is partially configured; og:image is missing. Twitter Card metadata is configured. JSON-LD includes Organization data, helping describe the organization as an entity. A meta description is present, with 155 characters.

Hosting and Email

DNSCloudflare
HostingCloudflare
Emailxtsystem.it
Location Location unknown 104.26.12.2

Pages, Search and Sharing

Meta descriptionest. 1999 designboom is the first and most popular digital magazine for architecture & design culture. daily news for a professional and creative audience.
Canonical URLhttps://www.designboom.com/
LanguageEnglish (default)
Twitter Cardsummary_large_image

Social Sharing Preview

6 fields

robots.txt (opens in a new tab)

51 rules
All bots 21 allowed · 21 disallowed
  • Allow/
  • Allow/
  • Allow/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
  • Allow/wp-content/plugins
  • Allow/wp-includes/css
  • Allow/wp-includes/js
  • Allow/wp-includes/fonts
  • Allow/wp-includes/images
  • Allow/wp-content/dbsub
  • Allow/wp-content/compsub
  • Allow/wp-content/uploads
  • Allow/wp-content/gallery
  • Allow/wp-content/themes/designboom/assets
  • Allow/wp-content/themes/designboom/images
  • Allow/wp-content/themes/designboom/font
  • Allow/wp-content/themes/designboom/fonts
  • Allow/wp-content/themes/designboom/css
  • Allow/wp-content/themes/designboom/js
  • Allow/wp-content/themes/designboom/js-admin
  • Allow/wp-content/themes/designboom/res
  • Allow/newsletter-subscribe
  • Disallow/cgi-bin
  • Disallow/wp-admin
  • Disallow/wp-includes
  • Disallow/wp-content
  • Disallow/e/
  • Disallow/show-error-*
  • Disallow/xmlrpc.php
  • Disallow/trackback/
  • Disallow/comment-page-
  • Disallow/cmplog
  • Disallow/cron_pw_grinder
  • Disallow/dboom_cron
  • Disallow/export
  • Disallow/exportCSV_UsersNL
  • Disallow/importedimages
  • Disallow/newsletter
  • Disallow/newsletter_ng
  • Disallow/old_site
  • Disallow/pw_tools
  • Disallow/sidebar_products
  • Disallow/index.php
amazonbot 0 allowed · 1 disallowed
  • Disallow/
applebot-extended 0 allowed · 1 disallowed
  • Disallow/
bytespider 0 allowed · 1 disallowed
  • Disallow/
ccbot 0 allowed · 1 disallowed
  • Disallow/
claudebot 0 allowed · 1 disallowed
  • Disallow/
cloudflarebrowserrenderingcrawler 0 allowed · 1 disallowed
  • Disallow/
google-extended 0 allowed · 1 disallowed
  • Disallow/
gptbot 0 allowed · 1 disallowed
  • Disallow/
meta-externalagent 0 allowed · 1 disallowed
  • Disallow/

Sitemaps

1

Registration details RDAP / WHOIS

RegistrarTucows Domains Inc.
Registered1999-11-19
Expires2026-11-19
Domain statusclient transfer prohibited、client update prohibited
Nameserversalex.ns.cloudflare.com、beth.ns.cloudflare.com
DNSSECunsigned

DNS records

TypeNameValueTTLPriority
Adesignboom.com104.26.12.2300—
Adesignboom.com104.26.13.2300—
Adesignboom.com172.67.72.110300—
AAAAdesignboom.com2606:4700:20::681a:c02300—
AAAAdesignboom.com2606:4700:20::681a:d02300—
AAAAdesignboom.com2606:4700:20::ac43:486e300—
MXdesignboom.comavas03.priv.cloud.xtsystem.it30010
NSdesignboom.comalex.ns.cloudflare.com86400—
NSdesignboom.combeth.ns.cloudflare.com86400—
TXTdesignboom.commailru-verification: 2dbb6163d4a50293300—
TXTdesignboom.comv=spf1 a mx ip4:194.233.167.77 include:t.contactlab.it include:_spf.xtsystem.it -all300—
DMARC_dmarc.designboom.comv=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:[email protected],mailto:[email protected],mailto:[email protected]; ruf=mailto:[email protected],mailto:[email protected]; fo=1300—

TLS and certificates

AssessmentNormal configuration
Supported protocolsTLSv1.2、TLSv1.3
Negotiated protocolTLSv1.3
Certificate subjectdesignboom.com
IssuerGoogle Trust Services
Valid until2026-11-18T18:45 · Remaining when checked: 76 days
Verification detailsCertificate trust: Passed · Hostname match: Passed

HTTP response headers

HeaderValue
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
cache-controlmax-age=3600, public
servercloudflare
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
access-control-allow-origin*

Identified technologies

WordPressGoogle Tag ManagerCloudflare

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