Website reputation report

indianexpress.com

Last checked 6 days ago · Point-in-time assessment

● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

According to its About page, Express Premium News Updates: Get Latest Breaking News, Photos and Video News on Express Premium. Also find Express Premium latest news headlines, picture gallery, top videos, comments, blog posts and opinion at The Indian Express. Evidence-backed categories: News & Media.

○ Malware status unverifiedNo external threat-provider verdict is available for this scan.

74/100Safety 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 Infrastructure92 Website Security95 Security Hygiene60 Transparency63 Reputation50 Operational Stability84
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 indianexpress.com

Updated Sep 25, 2026

The latest scan examined 6 public pages on indianexpress.com. 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: Express Premium News Updates: Get Latest Breaking News, Photos and Video News on Express Premium. Also find Express Premium latest news headlines, picture gallery,…

Registrar and domain history

Registered on May 20, 2002. Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC.

Recorded expiry date: May 20, 2028. Registry data can change.

Connection and hosting evidence

The checked homepage returned HTTP 200 in about 2000 ms.

A valid TLS certificate was observed, expiring Feb 21, 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: 74/100. Evidence Confidence: 75%. These measure different things.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on indianexpress.com

6 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.

Hashtags found on the website: #ExpressInvestigation . These are site-supplied labels, not search rankings.

Latest News Today, Breaking News, India News, Top Headlines | The Indian ExpressGet the latest news today, breaking news, and top news headlines updates from India and around the world. Stay updated on politics, business, sports, entertainment, and more with T Latest News on Express Premium: Get Express Premium News Updates along with Photos, Videos and Latest News Headlines | The Indian ExpressExpress Premium News Updates: Get Latest Breaking News, Photos and Video News on Express Premium. Also find Express Premium latest news headlines, picture gallery, top videos, comm Latest News on Rupture Inside Ec: Get Rupture Inside Ec News Updates along with Photos, Videos and Latest News Headlines | The Indian ExpressRupture Inside Ec News Updates: Get Latest Breaking News, Photos and Video News on Rupture Inside Ec. Also find Rupture Inside Ec latest news headlines, picture gallery, top videos How The Paradise objectified Kayadu Lohar in a film about fighting for dignity | Opinion-entertainment News - The Indian ExpressThe Paradise asks audiences to feel outrage at a system that dehumanises an entire community. Then it writes its only young female character as a 'single shot actress' whose scenes East Delhi SIR camp: Flagged for being twins, others have no clue about documentsDelhi had 1.45 crore electors before the SIR began – of them, 97.5 lakh made their way to the draft roll published on August 31. Latest News on Express Quiz: Get Express Quiz News Updates along with Photos, Videos and Latest News Headlines | The Indian ExpressExpress Quiz News Updates: Get Latest Breaking News, Photos and Video News on Express Quiz. Also find Express Quiz latest news headlines, picture gallery, top videos, comments, blo

At a glance

Key findings

✓

Report is current

The displayed evidence comes from the published immutable scan.

i

Confidence is separate

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

!

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%
92/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
95/100

Observed certificate validity and TLS protocol were checked.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
60/100

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%
63/100

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%
84/100

Observed HTTP status and final connection scheme were checked.

Server-side analysis

Automated security checks

Local HTML checks are unavailable for this report. A new scan can collect them if the homepage is accessible.

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 domainindianexpress.com
RegistrarGoDaddy.com, LLC
RegisteredMay 20, 2002
Domain age24 years
ExpiresMay 20, 2028
Registry statusesclient delete prohibited · client renew prohibited · client transfer prohibited · client update prohibited
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address13.226.244.124
Autonomous systemUnavailable
Network organizationUnavailable
Observed countryUnavailable
CDNAmazon CloudFront
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://indianexpress.com/
Endpoint13.226.244.124
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFAmazon CloudFront · Not detected
DNS surface27 records · 4 nameservers · 5 mail exchangers
Protection signals2 security headers · 2 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 size718,689 bytes
HTTP check duration2,000 ms
Cookies observedUnavailable
Script resourcesUnavailable · Unavailable external hosts
Frames and sampled checksUnavailable frames · Unavailable resources checked

Encrypted transport

TLS certificate

Valid when observed
StatusValid when observed
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuercountryName=BE, organizationName=GlobalSign nv-sa, commonName=GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018
Valid fromJan 20, 2026
Valid untilFeb 21, 2027
Certificate names*.indianexpress.com · indianexpress.com

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.

A13.226.244.124TTL —
A13.226.244.27TTL —
A13.226.244.34TTL —
A13.226.244.42TTL —
NSns-111.awsdns-13.comTTL —
NSns-1361.awsdns-42.orgTTL —
NSns-1576.awsdns-05.co.ukTTL —
NSns-659.awsdns-18.netTTL —
MX1 aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
TXT_globalsign-domain-verification=eoEm4eIVawgCAi8WJocwgs97Q4gCe0777TT7zqoOtuTTL —
TXT_globalsign-domain-verification=kAtpKiFNDqChuXOGsDfrLa5xVe8Kg39koIGFOERTboTTL —
TXT_globalsign-domain-verification=ORsgQ97ZWw0_K7hBNTbN4bfBIi8962yh9uWXA7EsXxTTL —
TXT_hic39ho2zpoh80enj3l6odpsfjj0aysTTL —
TXTc5w8099hp0hnl6h1g49z77zvf353yd1xTTL —
TXTcisco-ci-domain-verification=62abb2f8b22300a8ace59748a3cc6d34c0319fcf9b22db3d6512856b1b5b27f9TTL —
TXTdailymotion-domain-verification=dm5urzlf2zvpeu3s8TTL —
TXTfacebook-domain-verification=ji1qxzuj2az4kn8st8lvv3t2y4rlqeTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=C-KzVK_tl8jg1blXVoNH7ViuteIiRyj-elpaA2z4gbMTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=G-4bDbz4FXIG7KXk3u2kVznTSDT4g4ENvVNH-YM0Q3wTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=sffcO6wNjflJLYHut9hrPbsRSbFHgiH7NoUQGuXxiLMTTL —
TXTMS=ms80551722TTL —
TXTtollbit-domain-verification=4ed11cf61a1cac5eec78fc3b9c25081ff38f149c40297b270f695615bb258472TTL —
TXTv=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.falconide.com ~allTTL —

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

2 observed
strict-transport-securitypresent max-age=31536000; preload
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

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 was not recorded for this scan.

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

Express Premium News Updates: Get Latest Breaking News, Photos and Video News on Express Premium. Also find Express Premium latest news headlines, picture gallery, top videos, comments, blog posts and opinion at The Indian Express.

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 titleLatest News Today, Breaking News, India News, Top Headlines | The Indian Express
First headingAfter Express report, Goa CEO says cases of 97 voters ‘processed separately’
DescriptionGet the latest news today, breaking news, and top news headlines updates from India and around the world. Stay updated on politics, business, sports, entertainment, and more with The Indian Express.
Canonical URLhttps://indianexpress.com/
Final URLhttps://indianexpress.com/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=UTF-8 · 2000 ms
Languageen
Structured typesNewsMediaOrganization · SiteNavigationElement · ViewAction · WebPage · WebSite

Connection path

Redirect chain

0 recorded hops

No redirect hop was recorded for the sampled homepage.

Premium monitoring

Catch downtime and security changes automatically

Regular checks, availability history, and alert emails are reserved for Premium websites. Free reports remain point-in-time scans and do not create recurring server work.

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Compared with the previous scan

What changed

Safety ScoreNo comparable score
HTTP statusUnavailable → 200
Final URL changedYes
Technologies addedgoogle-analytics, wordpress
Technologies removedNone observed

This comparison uses persisted scan evidence only. A changed signal can reflect a real website change, a different response or newly available evidence.

Explainable matching

Digital fingerprint

fingerprint-v1
bright-vector-wave-396

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 indianexpress.com

Visual evidence

Website screenshot

Screenshot of indianexpress.com
Captured once in an isolated browser during this scan. Visual tint is an interface overlay. The original evidence is not duplicated.

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Questions about indianexpress.com

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Is indianexpress.com safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 74/100 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 indianexpress.com?

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

When was indianexpress.com registered?

The public registry record shows May 20, 2002. Registration details may be privacy-protected or updated later.

Did indianexpress.com 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 indianexpress.com 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.