Website reputation report

merill.net

Last checked 3 hours ago · Point-in-time assessment

● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

Public pages were observed on merill.net, but their subject was not confidently classified. An About page was also found. Recurring page-metadata topics include server, fernando, plus.

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

72/100Safety 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 Infrastructure95 Website Security95 Security Hygiene35 Transparency49 Reputation50 Operational Stability96
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 merill.net

Updated Oct 2, 2026

The latest scan examined 10 public pages on merill.net. 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: Founder of Jozra, creator of Maester, ex-Microsoft Entra PM and the #1 Entra fan. Here is who I am and what I build.

Registrar and domain history

Registered on Mar 3, 2001. Registrar: Cloudflare, Inc..

Recorded expiry date: Mar 3, 2027. Registry data can change.

Connection and hosting evidence

The checked homepage returned HTTP 200.

A valid TLS certificate was observed, expiring Dec 31, 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: 72/100. Evidence Confidence: 75%. These measure different things.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on merill.net

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.

Merill Fernando - merill.netPractical notes on Microsoft Entra, AI, Security, and Graph About Merill Fernando - merill.netFounder of Jozra, creator of Maester, ex-Microsoft Entra PM and the #1 Entra fan. Here is who I am and what I build. Merill’s Blog - merill.netPractical notes on Microsoft Entra, AI, Security, and Graph Setup! - merill.netI've finally managed to get blogX set up on my machine. For now I'm only going to post private stuff here on things that only I should read about. Car - merill.netAfter a long time I have now finally decided to buy a car. I called up HSBC and they are giving a personal loan for 17.25% plus I also get to become a PowerVantage member. Exchange 2003 - merill.netJust looked up the MSDN Download site and saw that Exchange 2003 is available. I already started downloading it! There was a Standard as well as an Enterprise edition wonde SQL Server (Yukon) - merill.netSQL Server (Yukon) has been released to about 200 customers for testing. Public beta expected early next year. I'm really excited about .NET Frame Lousy Lanka Internet Connection - merill.netWe are on a 128K leased line with Lanka Internet. All I can say is that it's pretty lousy. In the morning the line was fine and I was happily download E2K3 from MSDN at Messenger Plus for Messenger 6! - merill.netPatchou has done it again, he has been able to get Messenger Plus running with MSN 6, it has quite a bit of cool tools, including the old favorites as well as message Windows Server 2003 growing faster than Linux – Netcraft - merill.netWindows Server 2003 approaching 100,000 active sites; 8,000 sites switch from Linux

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on merill.net

5 phrases

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

serverTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
fernandoTitle, H12 sampled pages
plusTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
microsoft entraMeta description3 sampled pages
thatMeta 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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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%
95/100

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%
49/100

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%
96/100

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 · 1 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 scripts1
Inline scripts2
Embedded frames0
External script hosts0

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 domainmerill.net
RegistrarCloudflare, Inc.
RegisteredMar 3, 2001
Domain age25 years
ExpiresMar 3, 2027
Registry statusesclient transfer prohibited
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address104.21.39.125
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://merill.net/
Endpoint104.21.39.125
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFCloudflare · Not detected
DNS surface19 records · 2 nameservers · 5 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 size32,044 bytes
HTTP check duration0 ms
Cookies observedUnavailable
Script resources1 · 0 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=Google Trust Services, commonName=WE1
Valid fromOct 2, 2026
Valid untilDec 31, 2026
Certificate names*.merill.net · merill.net

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.

A104.21.39.125TTL —
A172.67.145.73TTL —
AAAA2606:4700:3035::6815:277dTTL —
AAAA2606:4700:3035::ac43:9149TTL —
NScory.ns.cloudflare.comTTL —
NSnora.ns.cloudflare.comTTL —
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 —
TXT2b69a8ce-527e-4355-88f7-0c5dc35d7260TTL —
TXTc3ji8abqrmg0kl5hrri42r74icTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=2HeQ-9aBYw6LG49C2v9v3isBrqeOS3X6Pw_ZUnFUxk8TTL —
TXTmmlvtsev7mdqqe3gdl876aqt0iTTL —
TXTMS=AB9108B5FEE118E3169F0EF54FC5B54F9623EED5TTL —
TXTMS=ms27498328TTL —
TXTMS=ms42982516TTL —
TXTv=spf1 a:my.merill.net include:_spf.google.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
DMARCMonitoring-only DMARC policy

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% Tailwind CSS 72%

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.

About this website

What the site says about itself

Founder of Jozra, creator of Maester, ex-Microsoft Entra PM and the #1 Entra fan. Here is who I am and what I build.

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 titleMerill Fernando - merill.net
First headingMerill Fernando
DescriptionPractical notes on Microsoft Entra, AI, Security, and Graph
Canonical URLhttps://merill.net/
Final URLhttps://merill.net/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=utf-8 · duration unavailable
Languageen-US
Structured typesPerson
Page page detectedhttps://merill.net/blog/About page detectedhttps://merill.net/about/
1100% evidence confidence
en-US100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
missing100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors credentials with wildcard100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
5100% evidence confidence
2100% evidence confidence
19100% evidence confidence
4100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.hsts present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions policy present100% 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
rapid-vector-arc-785

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.

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Visual evidence

Website screenshot

Screenshot of merill.net
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 merill.net

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Is merill.net safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 72/100 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 merill.net?

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

When was merill.net registered?

The public registry record shows Mar 3, 2001. Registration details may be privacy-protected or updated later.

Did merill.net 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 merill.net 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.