Website reputation report

famousscientists.org

Last checked 1 week ago · Point-in-time assessment

69/100Technical Safety ScoreIndependent technical assessment, not a visitor rating
● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

Famous Scientists is the web's largest educational resource focusing on the lives and achievements of the most famous scientists and inventors in history. We provide a useful list of the names of famous scientists and their biographies. We also maintain a science blog that takes a more general approach to science than the pages

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

69/100Safety Score
70%Evidence Confidence
Trust Radar evidence profile Eight evidence dimensions from zero to one hundred. Exact values surround the chart. Threat Intelligence55 Domain History93 Infrastructure84 Website Security95 Security Hygiene35 Transparency65 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.

Current report context

What changed since the last scan

  • No earlier report to compare
What this scan could verify · 6 observed, 0 unavailable
DNS observed
Registration lookup observed
Network observed
TLS observed
Website response observed
Website content observed

Unavailable and unperformed checks are not clean results. The detailed evidence below remains the source for each conclusion.

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Independent evidence brief

What we observed about famousscientists.org

Updated Oct 13, 2026

The latest scan examined 10 public pages on famousscientists.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: Famous Scientists is the web's largest educational resource focusing on the lives and achievements of the most famous scientists and inventors in history. We…

Registrar and domain history

Registered on Apr 18, 2010. Registrar: Name.com, Inc..

Recorded expiry date: Apr 18, 2027. 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 Nov 19, 2026.

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: 69/100. Evidence Confidence: 70%. These measure different things.

Community reviews of famousscientists.org

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Visitor experiences are separate from the independent technical Safety Score.

Visitor opinions remain separate from the technical Safety Score.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on famousscientists.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.

Famous Scientists - Biography, Facts and PicturesThe biggest resource on the internet, with the histories, biographies and achievements of the most famous scientists and inventors from all over the world. A comprehensive list of About - Biography, Facts and PicturesFamous Scientists is the web's largest educational resource focusing on the lives and achievements of the most famous scientists and inventors in history. We provide a useful list Contact - Biography, Facts and Pictureshttps://www.famousscientists.org/contact/ Blog - Biography, Facts and PicturesPerfect Numbers and our Cramped Universe The orders of magnitude spanned by perfect numbers reveal how few orders were required to build the observable universe from the Planck len Our Most Popular Scientists – Top 100 - Biography, Facts and PicturesHere's our alphabetical list of the top 100 or so most popular scientists on the Famous Scientists website, ordered by surname. Alternatively, if you're looking for more scientists List of Scientists - Biography, Facts and PicturesHere is an alphabetical list of hundreds of the most famous scientists in history; the men and women whose crucial discoveries and inventions changed the world. If you're looking f Top Astronomers - Biography, Facts and PicturesHere's our alphabetical list of the most popular astronomers, or contributors to astronomy, astrophysics, or cosmology on the Famous Scientists website, ordered by surname. Luis Al Top Biologists - Biography, Facts and PicturesHere's our alphabetical list of the most popular biologists, or contributors to biology, health & medicine on the Famous Scientists website, ordered by surname. Oswald Avery 1877 – Top Chemists - Biography, Facts and PicturesHere's our alphabetical list of the most popular chemists, or contributors to chemistry, on the Famous Scientists website, ordered by surname. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856. The firs Top Geologists, Paleontologists and Geographers - Biography, Facts and PicturesGeologists, Paleontologists and Geographers Here's our alphabetical list of the most popular geologists/paleontologists/geographers, or scientists who made significant contribution

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on famousscientists.org

12 phrases

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

biography factsTitle10 sampled pages
picturesTitle10 sampled pages
scientistsTitle, H1, Meta description8 sampled pages
famous scientistsTitle, H1, Meta description7 sampled pages
list ofTitle, H1, Meta description7 sampled pages
mostTitle, H1, Meta description8 sampled pages
most popularTitle, H1, Meta description5 sampled pages
alphabetical listMeta description6 sampled pages
hereMeta description6 sampled pages
ordered by surnameMeta description4 sampled pages
or contributors toMeta description3 sampled pages
most famousMeta description3 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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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%
93/100

Domain registration age and expiry were checked.

InfrastructureWeight 10%
84/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
95/100

Observed certificate validity and TLS protocol were checked.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
35/100

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%
65/100

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 HTMLNo signature match in the sampled HTML
Engine version1.5.4
Signature database date (UTC)2026-10-13T06:26:14+00:00
HTML bytes submitted87,975
Phishing.Database · exact hostnameNot listed in this snapshot
Feed downloaded (UTC)2026-10-13T12:00:10+00:00
Hosts in local snapshot386,082

Sampled scripts and pages

Resource analysis incomplete

6 resources checked · 6 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 scripts8
Inline scripts7
Embedded frames0
External script hosts2

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 domainfamousscientists.org
RegistrarName.com, Inc.
RegisteredApr 18, 2010
Domain age16 years
ExpiresApr 18, 2027
Registry statusesclient transfer prohibited
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address172.66.40.232
Autonomous systemUnavailable
Network organizationUnavailable
Observed countryUnavailable
CDNCloudflare
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.famousscientists.org/
Endpoint172.66.40.232
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFCloudflare · Not detected
DNS surface6 records · 2 nameservers · 0 mail exchangers
Protection signals0 security headers · 3 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 size87,975 bytes
HTTP check duration1,000 ms
Cookies observedUnavailable
Script resources8 · 2 external hosts
Frames and sampled checks0 frames · 6 resources checked

Encrypted transport

TLS certificate

Valid when observed
StatusValid when observed
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuercountryName=US, organizationName=Google Trust Services, commonName=WE1
Valid fromAug 21, 2026
Valid untilNov 19, 2026
Certificate names*.famousscientists.org · famousscientists.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.

A172.66.40.232TTL —
A172.66.43.24TTL —
AAAA2606:4700:3108::ac42:28e8TTL —
AAAA2606:4700:3108::ac42:2b18TTL —
NSanna.ns.cloudflare.comTTL —
NSjeff.ns.cloudflare.comTTL —

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.

SPFNo matching record returned for this exact hostname
DMARCNo matching record returned for this exact hostname

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

0 observed

Header evidence is unavailable. Missing data is not treated as a clean result or proof of compromise.

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

Cloudflare 98% Google Analytics 94% 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

4 sampled JavaScript files checked locally with Retire.js. Database snapshot: 2026-10-13T02:40:16.560Z.

jquery 3.7.1 No known advisories matched this version in the database snapshot.
jquery-migrate 3.4.1 No known advisories matched this version in the database snapshot.

A version match is not proof that the website is infected or that an issue is exploitable here. Owners should review the advisory, check whether their code is affected and test an update. Up to four external script files are sampled, not every dependency, inline script or dynamically loaded resource.

Recommended maintenance checks

WordPressKeep WordPress core, themes and plugins updated. Remove unused plugins and review administrator accounts.

About this website

What the site says about itself

Famous Scientists is the web's largest educational resource focusing on the lives and achievements of the most famous scientists and inventors in history. We provide a useful list of the names of famous scientists and their biographies. We also maintain a science blog that takes a more general approach to science than the pages

View the site's About page ↗

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

Structured facts

Website identity & response

Public page metadata
Page titleFamous Scientists - Biography, Facts and Pictures
First headingFamous Scientists
DescriptionThe biggest resource on the internet, with the histories, biographies and achievements of the most famous scientists and inventors from all over the world. A comprehensive list of the names of famous scientists.
Canonical URLhttps://www.famousscientists.org/
Final URLhttps://www.famousscientists.org/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=UTF-8 · 1000 ms
Languageen
Structured typesBreadcrumbList · ListItem · Organization · WebPage · WebSite
Page page detectedhttps://www.famousscientists.org/blog/About page detectedhttps://www.famousscientists.org/about/Contact page detectedhttps://www.famousscientists.org/contact/
missing100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
en100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
6100% evidence confidence
2100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.mail route count100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.hsts present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions policy present100% evidence confidence
4100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors wildcard origin100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors credentials with wildcard100% evidence confidence

Connection path

Redirect chain

1 recorded hops
Hop 1https://www.famousscientists.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
bright-anchor-ring-895

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

Show change history

No meaningful changes recorded yet.

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Visual evidence

Website screenshot

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No usable browser image was saved. The website icon is separate from a screenshot and is not visual evidence of the page.

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Questions about famousscientists.org

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Is famousscientists.org safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 69/100 with 70% 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 famousscientists.org?

ClamAV found no signature match in the sampled homepage HTML. External scripts, downloads and private server files were not checked. This is not a whole-site malware clearance.

When was famousscientists.org registered?

The public registry record shows Apr 18, 2010. Registration details may be privacy-protected or updated later.

Did famousscientists.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 famousscientists.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.

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