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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 2005, this domain has about 21 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 Gandi SAS, a widely used domain service provider. The domain uses the common .com extension, which is not an independent safety signal.

DNS and Email

The lowest TTL is 1 seconds, supporting rapid record changes at the cost of more frequent lookups. Nameservers are provided by Amazon Route 53, indicating managed DNS hosting. MX records point to the Google Workspace email service. No CNAME was found; the observed records resolve directly to addresses. SPF and DMARC are configured. DKIM status is unknown.

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 by Let's Encrypt, commonly associated with automated certificate services. The certificate's total validity is about 89 days, consistent with a short renewal cycle.

HTTP and Browser Security

The response lacks these common security headers: Permissions-Policy. 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. The Server header identifies nginx without an exact version. No explicit CDN or WAF marker was found in the response headers.

Technology Stack Analysis

The public page identifies nginx without precise versions, leaving fewer clues for version-specific scanning.

Search and Social Sharing

No homepage meta description was detected, leaving snippet selection more dependent on page text. No homepage canonical URL was detected. If duplicate URLs exist, consolidation may be less explicit. No Open Graph metadata was detected, so social previews may depend on platform inference. The title has 11 characters, within a common display range. The observed directives allow indexing and link following.

Hosting and Email

DNSAmazon Route 53
HostingM5 Computer Security
EmailGoogle Workspace
Location United States flagUnited States 209.216.230.207

Pages, Search and Sharing

Meta descriptionNot detected
Canonical URLNot detected
LanguageEnglish (default)
Twitter CardNot detected

Social Sharing Preview

Unknown

robots.txt (opens in a new tab)

12 rules
All bots 0 allowed · 12 disallowed
  • Disallow/collapse?
  • Disallow/context?
  • Disallow/fave?
  • Disallow/flag?
  • Disallow/hide?
  • Disallow/login
  • Disallow/logout
  • Disallow/r?
  • Disallow/reply?
  • Disallow/submitlink?
  • Disallow/vote?
  • Disallow/x?
  • IntervalCrawl delay 30 seconds

Sitemaps

0

No sitemaps found

Registration details RDAP / WHOIS

RegistrarGandi SAS
Registered2005-03-20
Expires2027-03-20
Domain statusclient transfer prohibited
Nameserversns-1411.awsdns-48.org、ns-1914.awsdns-47.co.uk、ns-225.awsdns-28.com、ns-556.awsdns-05.net
DNSSECunsigned

DNS records

TypeNameValueTTLPriority
Anews.ycombinator.com209.216.230.2071—
AAAAnews.ycombinator.com2606:7100:1:67::261—
MXycombinator.comaspmx.l.google.com30010
MXycombinator.comalt1.aspmx.l.google.com30020
MXycombinator.comalt2.aspmx.l.google.com30020
MXycombinator.comaspmx4.googlemail.com30030
NSycombinator.comns-1411.awsdns-48.org172800—
NSycombinator.comns-1914.awsdns-47.co.uk172800—
NSycombinator.comns-225.awsdns-28.com172800—
NSycombinator.comns-556.awsdns-05.net172800—
TXTycombinator.comMS=ms37374900300—
TXTycombinator.comWayback verify for support request 741082300—
TXTycombinator.comZOOM_verify_2ndw8KZxSRa8PT8NmdyXvw300—
TXTycombinator.comanthropic-domain-verification-0qe2ww=yK576oHdDgyTcXgkPfj1KXgGt300—
TXTycombinator.comapple-domain-verification=WG0sP5Alm7N6h1Te300—
TXTycombinator.comca3-4861b957e83847c188e45d04ec314ee3300—
TXTycombinator.comdropbox-domain-verification=asc63coma4mv300—
TXTycombinator.comgoogle-site-verification=GJKdQskycEclAGPua3yXB9m_nVhxbrsVps_y-t9SXV0300—
TXTycombinator.comgoogle-site-verification=KsI69Y_jEVkp4eXqSQ9R9gwxjIpZznvuvrus6UolB9Y300—
TXTycombinator.comgoogle-site-verification=rivq8jKu6AADGtbbEzJhmOpcqq08B7QxIzXxYV8DtyU300—
TXTycombinator.comopenai-domain-verification=dv-QbhxxK0G0JK0dnyZ4YTsNAfw300—
TXTycombinator.comrippling-domain-verification=a660f7a4ab77a3de300—
TXTycombinator.comv=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org a:rsweb1-36.investorflow.com include:_spf.createsend.com include:servers.mcsv.net -all300—
DMARC_dmarc.ycombinator.comv=DMARC1; p=none; pct=100; sp=none; ruf=mailto:[email protected]; rua=mailto:[email protected]; aspf=r;4—

TLS and certificates

AssessmentNormal configuration
Supported protocolsTLSv1.2、TLSv1.3
Negotiated protocolTLSv1.3
Certificate subjectnews.ycombinator.com
IssuerLet's Encrypt
Valid until2026-10-17T08:09 · Remaining when checked: 46 days
Verification detailsCertificate trust: Passed · Hostname match: Passed

HTTP response headers

HeaderValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
cache-controlprivate; max-age=0
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31556900
content-security-policydefault-src 'self'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' https://www.google.com/recaptcha/ https://www.gstatic.com/recaptcha/ https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/; frame-src 'self' https://www.google.com/recaptcha/; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; img-src 'self' https://account.ycombinator.com; frame-ancestors 'self'
x-frame-optionsDENY
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policyorigin

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