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King's is ranked in the top 10 universities in the UK (QS World Rankings 2021) and based in the heart of London. With nine faculties, institutes and schools of study and five Medical Research Council centres, King's offers world-class teaching and research.
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Website Overview
Identifiable technologies and additional version or configuration signals make the service easier to fingerprint, which may help targeted scanners narrow their checks. Several search or sharing settings need attention. Together they may make snippets, preview images or preferred URLs less consistent across platforms.
Domain and Registration
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DNS and Email
The lowest TTL is 52 seconds, supporting rapid record changes at the cost of more frequent lookups. Nameservers are provided by kcl.ac.uk, indicating managed DNS hosting. MX records point to the Microsoft 365 email service. SPF and DMARC are configured. DKIM status is unknown. TXT records include verification markers for Google, Atlassian. Such markers may also remain after a service stops being used.
TLS and Certificates
The certificate includes the organization field Kings College London. The certificate issuer is Sectigo Limited, a commercial certificate authority. The certificate uses an RSA 4096-bit public key, offering broad client compatibility. The server supplied a complete certificate chain. The certificate is valid for about 198 days in total, with 106 days remaining.
HTTP and Browser Security
The response lacks these common security headers: 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. No X-Powered-By header was found, reducing one common source of backend fingerprinting information. No obvious internal addresses or debug information were found in the headers. No explicit CDN or WAF marker was found in the response headers.
Technology Stack Analysis
The public page identifies Contensis CMS Version 17.1, Google Tag Manager, with exact versions exposed for 1 technologies. These details can narrow vulnerability checks, although exposure alone is not a vulnerability.
Search and Social Sharing
The meta description has 257 characters and may be shortened in search results. The Generator tag identifies Contensis CMS Version 17.1, making the publishing system easier to fingerprint. No Open Graph metadata was detected, so social previews may depend on platform inference. JSON-LD includes Organization data, helping describe the organization as an entity. The title has 21 characters, within a common display range.
Hosting and Email
Pages, Search and Sharing
| Meta description | King's is ranked in the top 10 universities in the UK (QS World Rankings 2021) and based in the heart of London. With nine faculties, institutes and schools of study and five Medical Research Council centres, King's offers world-class teaching and research. |
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| Canonical URL | https://www.kcl.ac.uk |
| Language | English (default) |
| Twitter Card | Not detected |
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robots.txt (opens in a new tab)
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Sitemaps
11- https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sitemap.xml(opens in a new tab)
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Registration details RDAP / WHOIS
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DNS records
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TLS and certificates
| Assessment | Normal configuration |
|---|---|
| Supported protocols | TLSv1.2、TLSv1.3 |
| Negotiated protocol | TLSv1.3 |
| Certificate subject | kcl.ac.uk |
| Issuer | Sectigo Limited |
| Valid until | 2027-01-10T23:59 · Remaining when checked: 106 days |
| Verification details | Certificate trust: Passed · Hostname match: Passed |
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| content-security-policy | frame-ancestors https://*.cloud.contensis.com https://*.kcl.ac.uk |
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