Website reputation report

cal.org

Last checked 11 hours ago · Point-in-time assessment

● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

cal.org is currently classified in the News & Media category based on observed public pages. An About page was also found. Recurring page-metadata topics include applied linguistics, center, events.

No listed local patterns observedHomepage-only analysis is not a malware clearance. Read the scope and findings below.

77/100Safety Score
75%Evidence Confidence
Trust Radar evidence profile Eight evidence dimensions from zero to one hundred. Exact values surround the chart. Threat Intelligence55 Domain History95 Infrastructure90 Website Security95 Security Hygiene80 Transparency58 Reputation50 Operational Stability85
Trust RadarEight observed factors. Select one to inspect its evidence.

How to read this report

Safety Score evaluates observed signals. Evidence Confidence measures how complete, direct, fresh, and consistent those signals are.

No automated scan can guarantee that a website is safe.

Independent evidence brief

What we observed about cal.org

Updated Oct 2, 2026

The latest scan examined 10 public pages on cal.org. Website descriptions below come from the site itself. Registration, connection and threat findings were checked separately.

Purpose and visible content

On its About page, the site says: Mission and Values Board of Trustees CAL Board of Trustees Honor Roll Staff and Associates Staff Directory Fellowships Career Opportunities Interns Consultants Our History…

Registrar and domain history

Registered on Sep 8, 1995. Registrar: Network Solutions, LLC.

Recorded expiry date: Sep 7, 2029. Registry data can change.

Connection and hosting evidence

The checked homepage returned HTTP 200 in about 1000 ms.

A valid TLS certificate was observed, expiring Jan 25, 2027.

Threat checks and score context

External malware-provider coverage was unavailable. The report does not treat this missing check as a clean result.

Safety Score: 77/100. Evidence Confidence: 75%. These measure different things.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on cal.org

10 of up to 10 pages

We sampled public pages from this website to understand its subject and contact paths. The titles and short descriptions below come from the website itself. They are not endorsements or independent safety findings.

Center for Applied LinguisticsLatest Videos/Webinars Upcoming Events Latest News Who We Are - Center for Applied LinguisticsMission and Values Board of Trustees CAL Board of Trustees Honor Roll Staff and Associates Staff Directory Fellowships Career Opportunities Interns Consultants Our History CAL 60 O Services - Center for Applied LinguisticsProjects Research Services Program Evaluation Services Online Courses Professional Development The Center for Applied Linguistics has provided language and cultural orientation ser Products and Publications - Center for Applied LinguisticsWebinars & Videos Research to Policy Webinars Online Learning Databases & Directories Online Organizations Products & Publications CAL Commentary Resource Archive Digests Linguisti News and Events - Center for Applied LinguisticsBlog Calendar of Events In the News Subscribe to CAL News The news and events section of the CAL website provides access to a wide range of information about events and news relate Blog - Center for Applied LinguisticsBlog Calendar of Events In the News Subscribe to CAL News What do we mean when we say opportunity to learn and equity for multilingual learners?June 27, 2022 In this opinion piece, In the News - Center for Applied LinguisticsBlog Calendar of Events In the News Subscribe to CAL News CAL shares news and announcements about our organization, staff and work as well as periodically posting links to online n In the News: Closure of Fort Worth ISD Newcomer School Stirs Uncertainty, Resurects a Decade-Old Debate (Dallas Morning News) - Center for Applied LinguisticsAs the Texas school district closes the doors on its International Newcomber School, CAL President & CEO Diep Nguyen, PhD, explains the unique role and services that newcomer schoo CALL FOR RESUMES: Dual Language & Multilingual Education Consultants - Center for Applied LinguisticsAre you an educator currently working in a bilingual or dual language program? Interested in supporting other educators through professional development experiences? The Center for New OpEd: Hanging the Rights of Immigrant Students on the Line (Language Magazine) - Center for Applied LinguisticsCAL President & CEO Diep Nguyen separates myth from fact to explain what language educators can do about Plyler v. Doe The Guarantee of Public Education for Students Regardless of

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on cal.org

11 phrases

These phrases were extracted locally from sampled public page metadata. They are observations, not search-volume or ranking estimates.

applied linguisticsTitle, Meta description10 sampled pages
centerTitle, Meta description10 sampled pages
eventsTitle, H1, Meta description4 sampled pages
languageTitle, Meta description3 sampled pages
blogTitle, H1, Meta description3 sampled pages
blog calendar ofMeta description3 sampled pages
of events inMeta description3 sampled pages
subscribe toMeta description3 sampled pages
consultantsTitle, Meta description2 sampled pages
educationTitle, Meta description2 sampled pages
multilingualTitle, Meta description2 sampled pages

At a glance

Key findings

✓

Report is current

The displayed evidence comes from the published immutable scan.

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Confidence is separate

Unavailable evidence is shown as missing and never counted as clean.

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Verify before sensitive actions

Check the exact URL and context before payments, credentials, or downloads.

Fully explainable

Why this score?

Versioned weights
Threat IntelligenceWeight 25%
55/100

Threat providers were unavailable. The neutral uncertainty baseline is not a clean verdict.

Domain HistoryWeight 10%
95/100

Domain registration age and expiry were checked.

InfrastructureWeight 10%
90/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
95/100

Observed certificate validity and TLS protocol were checked.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
80/100

Observed security header values were checked for basic protective settings. Empty values, disabled HSTS and unrecognized values receive no credit. This is not a complete browser-policy validation.

TransparencyWeight 5%
58/100

Observed site metadata and About page were checked. Publisher-supplied details are not independently verified.

ReputationWeight 5%
50/100

Popularity is weak context, not proof of safety. Unranked sites use a neutral baseline.

Operational StabilityWeight 15%
85/100

Observed HTTP status and final connection scheme were checked.

Server-side analysis

Automated security checks

Local antivirus and phishing checks

ClamAV · homepage HTMLLocal antivirus is not enabled
Phishing.Database · exact hostnameLocal feed snapshot unavailable

Sampled scripts and pages

Resource antivirus is not enabled

0 resources checked · 70 script links observed on the homepage. Partial resource coverage.

ClamAV inspects the fetched homepage HTML on our server. New scans also sample up to four linked scripts and two collected internal pages, with size and time limits. Scripts are not executed. Other downloads, private server files and logged-in pages remain outside this check. A signature match needs investigation and can be a false positive. No match is not a whole-site safety guarantee.

Exact hostname lookup uses a downloaded Phishing.Database snapshot. It does not send this domain to an external lookup API or mark sibling subdomains as harmful. Not listed does not mean safe. Snapshot age is download age, not proof that every entry was recently revalidated.

Homepage HTML only · Eight local rule families · local-security-v2

Checks use the fetched page and redirect chain. Scripts are not executed, forms are not submitted, and linked files are not downloaded. This is not a malware clearance.

Page resource inventory

Linked scripts70
Inline scripts37
Embedded frames0
External script hosts1

Counts describe the sampled HTML, not every resource loaded by the browser. External resources are common and are not automatically harmful.

No listed local patterns observed. The limited rule set cannot detect every threat or behavior.

External threat intelligence

Provider coverageNot checked

Local checks do not query external reputation databases. An unavailable check is never a clean result.

Registration

Domain information

Public RDAP observation
Canonical domaincal.org
RegistrarNetwork Solutions, LLC
RegisteredSep 8, 1995
Domain age31 years
ExpiresSep 7, 2029
Registry statusesactive
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address172.206.229.77
Autonomous systemUnavailable
Network organizationUnavailable
Observed countryUnavailable
CDNNot detected
Web application firewallNot detected

At a glance

Infrastructure summary

Observed during this scan

A compact view of the connection, DNS and security surface. These observations describe what the scanner could verify at scan time and do not prove ownership or ongoing availability.

HTTP response200 · https://www.cal.org/
Endpoint172.206.229.77
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFNot detected · Not detected
DNS surface12 records · 2 nameservers · 1 mail exchangers
Protection signals5 security headers · 7 technologies · DNSSEC unknown

Page telemetry

Observed page statistics

Safe metadata only

These counters describe the fetched response and sampled HTML. Script counts describe references in the markup, not a complete browser network log. Cookie counts cover observed response headers.

Response size314,060 bytes
HTTP check duration1,000 ms
Cookies observedUnavailable
Script resources70 · 1 external hosts
Frames and sampled checks0 frames · 0 resources checked

Encrypted transport

TLS certificate

Valid when observed
StatusValid when observed
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuercountryName=US, organizationName=GoDaddy.com, commonName=GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1
Valid fromJul 11, 2026
Valid untilJan 25, 2027
Certificate names*.cal.org · cal.org

Resolution

DNS footprint

DNSKEY status unknown

DNSKEY presence does not verify the DNSSEC signature chain. Missing records can mean no record was returned or the lookup was unavailable.

A172.206.229.77TTL —
NSns89.worldnic.comTTL —
NSns90.worldnic.comTTL —
MX0 cal-org.mail.protection.outlook.comTTL —
TXT2323219TTL —
TXT80nlgnkdrphjfh0ogtbloefg2hTTL —
TXTamazonses:xpF/ZD368nnDN5iVWbFGYr9mhZGG8nH/Ck2xPIQkEeY=TTL —
TXTe2ma-verification=ujxebTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=hro1nEkImKam_fiy1BCmfQtWa6nUNShgQv1nFJ83vS8TTL —
TXTHG2vYMVZD2B4GKZLiRk3/fYiq+w30IxmcuJ6aouSNXOF6bP4U5L80BmQ4D5FHjZsEG8rfPN0Nij0P4naopo+sg==TTL —
TXTMS=ms62393401TTL —
TXTv=spf1 ip4:208.253.84.66 ip4:208.253.84.88 ip4:38.122.72.194 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:autotask.net include:_spf.e2ma.net include:spf.etouches.com include:app.aventri.com ~allTTL —

DNS observations · no external lookup API

Domain email protection

Exact-host SPF and DMARC observations help the owner investigate email impersonation risks. They are separate from website malware checks and do not change the Safety Score.

SPFPolicy record observed, not fully validated
DMARCPolicy record observed, not fully validated

What to do next

Review the records with your mail administrator. Inventory legitimate senders and test SPF and DKIM alignment before enforcing a stricter DMARC policy. Fix duplicate records and investigate overly permissive SPF rules.

This bounded check does not send email, probe SMTP, evaluate recursive SPF includes, verify DKIM signatures or apply organizational-domain DMARC inheritance. A missing subdomain record does not prove that no inherited protection exists. A DNS timeout is unknown, not an absent record. A policy record is not proof that messages authenticate successfully.

Responsible disclosure

security.txt

RFC 9116 observation

No readable security.txt file was observed at the standard locations. This is informational and is not evidence of malware.

Browser protections

Security headers

5 observed
permissions-policypresent geolocation=(), microphone=(), camera=()
referrer-policypresent strict-origin-when-cross-origin
strict-transport-securitypresent max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-content-type-optionspresent nosniff
x-frame-optionspresent SAMEORIGIN

Response headers

Cookie protections

Passive observation

No Set-Cookie header was observed on the sampled homepage response. Other pages may set cookies separately.

Detected stack

Technologies

Apache HTTP Server 93% Bootstrap 80% Google Analytics 94% jQuery 3.6.0 82% Tailwind CSS 72% WooCommerce 90% WordPress 95%

Versions are shown only when publicly exposed by the page or response headers. An observed version is not, by itself, proof of a vulnerability.

JavaScript library advisories

JavaScript advisory analysis could not be completed or no eligible script files were sampled. No clean result is implied.

Recommended maintenance checks

Apache HTTP ServerReview the Apache branch and keep security patches current. Avoid exposing detailed server version headers.
jQueryConfirm the observed jQuery version is supported by your application and update it through your normal dependency process.
WordPressKeep WordPress core, themes and plugins updated. Remove unused plugins and review administrator accounts.

About this website

What the site says about itself

Mission and Values Board of Trustees CAL Board of Trustees Honor Roll Staff and Associates Staff Directory Fellowships Career Opportunities Interns Consultants Our History CAL 60 Our Founder Annual Reports The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) is a non-profit organization founded in 1959. Headquartered in Washington DC, CAL has earned an international reputation for its

View the site's About page ↗

This is publisher supplied information. The independent safety findings are shown separately.

Publisher supplied

Public contact details

These details were observed on the website, not independently verified as an active support channel.

Structured facts

Website identity & response

Public page metadata
Page titleCenter for Applied Linguistics
First headingUnavailable
DescriptionLatest Videos/Webinars Upcoming Events Latest News
Canonical URLhttps://www.cal.org/
Final URLhttps://www.cal.org/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=UTF-8 · 1000 ms
Languageen-US
Structured typesBreadcrumbList · ListItem · Organization · WebPage · WebSite
Page page detectedhttps://www.cal.org/what-we-do/services/About page detectedhttps://www.cal.org/who-we-are/
Local headers.permissions usb restricted100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
en-US100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
missing100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors wildcard origin100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
2100% evidence confidence
12100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors credentials with wildcard100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors present100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp present100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
63072000100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions payment restricted100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence

Connection path

Redirect chain

1 recorded hops
Hop 1https://www.cal.org/

The chain is shown exactly as observed by the scanner. A redirect is not itself a malware finding, but unexpected domains or an HTTP downgrade deserve review.

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Compared with the previous scan

What changed

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Explainable matching

Digital fingerprint

fingerprint-v1
quiet-vector-mesh-571

Comparable components help find technically related websites. A match does not prove common ownership.

DnsHashed private comparison value
TechnologiesHashed private comparison value

Material changes only

Change history

No meaningful changes recorded yet.

Website icon for cal.org

Visual evidence

Website screenshot

Screenshot of cal.org
Earlier browser capture retained because this scan did not produce a usable replacement. It is not fresh scan evidence.

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Questions about cal.org

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Is cal.org safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 77/100 with 75% Evidence Confidence. This is a point-in-time assessment of observed technical signals, not a guarantee. Check the exact address and avoid entering payment details if anything looks unusual.

Did the scan detect malware on cal.org?

External threat-provider coverage was unavailable for this scan, so malware status is unverified.

When was cal.org registered?

The public registry record shows Sep 8, 1995. Registration details may be privacy-protected or updated later.

Did cal.org have a valid TLS certificate?

The scanner observed a valid TLS certificate using TLSv1.3. A valid certificate alone does not establish that the site is safe.

How does cal.org describe itself?

The website's About page describes its purpose in the report above. This is publisher-supplied information and is separate from independent security findings.

Can a paid listing change this website's score?

No. Premium placement and owner-supplied pages are labelled separately. Technical evidence, the Safety Score and moderation decisions remain independent.