Website reputation report

gata.org

Last checked 2 weeks ago · Point-in-time assessment

71/100Technical Safety ScoreIndependent technical assessment, not a visitor rating
● Local security concerns found

What is this website?

The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee was organized in the fall of 1998 to expose, oppose, and litigate against collusion to control the price and supply of gold and related financial instruments. The committee arose from essays by Bill Murphy, a financial commentator on the Internet (LeMetropoleCafe.com), and by Chris Powell, a newspaper editor in Connecticut.

Local security concerns foundReview the observed form or connection issues below. These findings do not establish malware or phishing.

71/100Safety Score
70%Evidence Confidence
Trust Radar evidence profile Eight evidence dimensions from zero to one hundred. Exact values surround the chart. Threat Intelligence55 Domain History95 Infrastructure89 Website Security95 Security Hygiene45 Transparency53 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 gata.org

Updated Oct 21, 2026

The latest scan examined 10 public pages on gata.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: The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee was organized in the fall of 1998 to expose, oppose, and litigate against collusion to control the price and…

Observed page title: Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee | Exposing the long-term manipulation of the gold market.

Registrar and domain history

Registered on Feb 14, 1999. Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC.

Recorded expiry date: Feb 14, 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 26, 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: 71/100. Evidence Confidence: 70%. These measure different things.

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Visitor opinions remain separate from the technical Safety Score.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on gata.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.

Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee | Exposing the long-term manipulation of the gold markethttps://gata.org/ About GATA and Contact Information | Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee | Exposing the long-term manipulation of the gold markethttps://gata.org/about President of Africa's biggest gold-producing nation vows to end raw mineral exports within four years | Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee | Exposing the long-terhttps://gata.org/node/25084 West Africa is the new Wild West of gold mining | Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee | Exposing the long-term manipulation of the gold markethttps://gata.org/node/25083 NYTimes shows LBMA gold mining standards are a fraud, like the LBMA itself | Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee | Exposing the long-term manipulation of the goldhttps://gata.org/node/25082 Press Releases | Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee | Exposing the long-term manipulation of the gold markethttps://gata.org/taxonomy/term/3 GATA in the Press | Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee | Exposing the long-term manipulation of the gold markethttps://gata.org/taxonomy/term/20 Now where's the story about how the fiat currency boom has fueled wars everywhere for centuries? | Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee | Exposing the long-term manhttps://gata.org/node/25081 Digital gold market triples to $55 billion as younger investors pile in | Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee | Exposing the long-term manipulation of the gold marhttps://gata.org/node/25080 Dominic Frisby interviews James Turk: Gold's not an investment; it's money | Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee | Exposing the long-term manipulation of the goldhttps://gata.org/node/25079

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on gata.org

10 phrases

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

action committee exposingTitle10 sampled pages
anti trust actionTitle10 sampled pages
gold antiTitle10 sampled pages
longTitle10 sampled pages
long termTitle9 sampled pages
term manipulation ofTitle8 sampled pages
gold marketTitle, H16 sampled pages
gold miningTitle, H12 sampled pages
africaTitle, H12 sampled pages
pressTitle, H12 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%
95/100

Domain registration age and expiry were checked.

InfrastructureWeight 10%
89/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
95/100

Observed certificate validity and TLS protocol were checked.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
45/100

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. Local checks found potentially unsafe form markup or unencrypted active resources. See Automated security checks for the evidence.

TransparencyWeight 5%
53/100

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)2026-10-20T06:24:12+00:00
HTML bytes submitted27,436
Phishing.Database · exact hostnameNot listed in this snapshot
Feed downloaded (UTC)2026-10-21T00:00:08+00:00
Hosts in local snapshot386,082

Sampled scripts and pages

Resource analysis incomplete

5 resources checked · 5 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 scripts5
Inline scripts3
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.

HTTP scripts or frames on an HTTPS pageSecurity concern · 1

The markup references active resources over HTTP. Browsers may block or upgrade them. This is not evidence that a harmful script ran.

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 domaingata.org
RegistrarGoDaddy.com, LLC
RegisteredFeb 14, 1999
Domain age27 years
ExpiresFeb 14, 2027
Registry statusesclient delete prohibited · client renew prohibited · client transfer prohibited · client update prohibited
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address67.225.208.26
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://gata.org/
Endpoint67.225.208.26
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFNot detected · Not detected
DNS surface11 records · 4 nameservers · 5 mail exchangers
Protection signals3 security headers · 4 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 size27,436 bytes
HTTP check duration1,000 ms
Cookies observedUnavailable
Script resources5 · 2 external hosts
Frames and sampled checks0 frames · 5 resources checked

Encrypted transport

TLS certificate

Valid when observed
StatusValid when observed
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuercountryName=US, organizationName=Let's Encrypt, commonName=YR2
Valid fromAug 28, 2026
Valid untilNov 26, 2026
Certificate namesgata.org · www.gata.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.

A67.225.208.26TTL —
NSns-1434.awsdns-51.orgTTL —
NSns-1660.awsdns-15.co.ukTTL —
NSns-307.awsdns-38.comTTL —
NSns-762.awsdns-31.netTTL —
MX1 aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX10 aspmx2.googlemail.comTTL —
MX10 aspmx3.googlemail.comTTL —
MX5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
TXTv=spf1 a mx include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mtasv.net include:amazonses.com ip4:64.207.97.131 ip4:64.207.136.0/22 ip4:205.186.168.61/30 ip4:216.70.64.0/24 -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
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

3 observed
permissions-policypresent interest-cohort=()
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% 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.
WordPressKeep WordPress core, themes and plugins updated. Remove unused plugins and review administrator accounts.

About this website

What the site says about itself

The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee was organized in the fall of 1998 to expose, oppose, and litigate against collusion to control the price and supply of gold and related financial instruments. The committee arose from essays by Bill Murphy, a financial commentator on the Internet (LeMetropoleCafe.com), and by Chris Powell, a newspaper editor in Connecticut.

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.

Emailinfo@gata.orgSource: https://gata.org/about
Emailinfo@fisherpm.comSource: https://gata.org/node/25084
Emaillepatron@lemetropolecafe.comSource: https://gata.org/taxonomy/term/3
Emailmark@taracoins.comSource: https://gata.org/node/25081

Structured facts

Website identity & response

Public page metadata
Page titleGold Anti-Trust Action Committee | Exposing the long-term manipulation of the gold market
First headingUnavailable
DescriptionUnavailable
Canonical URLhttps://gata.org/
Final URLhttps://gata.org/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=utf-8 · 1000 ms
LanguageUnknown
Structured typesNone observed
Page page detectedhttps://gata.org/taxonomy/term/3About page detectedhttps://gata.org/about
missing100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.hsts present100% 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
Local headers.permissions camera restricted100% evidence confidence
11100% evidence confidence
4100% evidence confidence
5100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions usb restricted100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions payment restricted100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions microphone restricted100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions geolocation restricted100% evidence confidence

Connection path

Redirect chain

0 recorded hops

No redirect hop was recorded for the sampled homepage.

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Compared with the previous scan

What changed

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Explainable matching

Digital fingerprint

fingerprint-v1
deep-vector-field-562

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

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No meaningful changes recorded yet.

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Visual evidence

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Questions about gata.org

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Is gata.org safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 71/100 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 gata.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 gata.org registered?

The public registry record shows Feb 14, 1999. Registration details may be privacy-protected or updated later.

Did gata.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 gata.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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