Website reputation report

thoughteconomics.com

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

● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

Founded by Professor Vikas S. Shah, Thought Economics is a journal of intellectual capital, now read in over 120 countries.

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

71/100Safety Score
75%Evidence Confidence
Trust Radar evidence profile Eight evidence dimensions from zero to one hundred. Exact values surround the chart. Threat Intelligence55 Domain History94 Infrastructure88 Website Security95 Security Hygiene35 Transparency57 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 thoughteconomics.com

Updated Oct 3, 2026

The latest scan examined 10 public pages on thoughteconomics.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: Founded by Professor Vikas S. Shah, Thought Economics is a journal of intellectual capital, now read in over 120 countries.

Registrar and domain history

Registered on Oct 29, 2007. Registrar: 123-Reg Limited.

Recorded expiry date: Oct 29, 2026. Registry data can change.

Connection and hosting evidence

The checked homepage returned HTTP 200.

A valid TLS certificate was observed, expiring Nov 5, 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: 75%. These measure different things.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on thoughteconomics.com

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.

Thought Economics - Interviews with the World's Greatest Thinkers600+ exclusive long-form interviews with Nobel laureates, world leaders, entrepreneurs and cultural icons — hosted by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL. About Thought Economics - Thought EconomicsFounded by Professor Vikas S. Shah, Thought Economics is a journal of intellectual capital, now read in over 120 countries. Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL - Thought EconomicsDr. Vikas Shah MBE DL — entrepreneur, board director, Deputy Lieutenant of Greater Manchester and founder of Thought Economics. Over 600 long-form interviews with the world's leadi Contact - Thought EconomicsTo get in touch with Vikas Shah, author of Thought Economics, please use the contact form below. You searched for Edmund Phelps - Thought Economicshttps://thoughteconomics.com/?s=Edmund%20Phelps Work With Thought Economics — Interview Pitches - Thought EconomicsPitch your client for a Thought Economics interview. 600+ long-form conversations with Nobel laureates, world leaders and cultural icons. Multiple Webby Award winner. Read by 1m+ p All Interviewees - Thought Economicshttps://thoughteconomics.com/all-interviewees/ Quotes - Thought Economics600+ exclusive quotes from the world's leading thinkers — Nobel laureates, world leaders, entrepreneurs and cultural icons, interviewed by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL. Subscribe to Thought Economics - Thought EconomicsLong-form conversations with world-leading thinkers, delivered straight to your inbox. No spam, unsubscribe anytime. Sherry Turkle on Artificial Intimacy and AIMIT's Sherry Turkle on chatbots, therapy, children and why the original sin of artificial intimacy is a machine's use of the word "I".

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on thoughteconomics.com

12 phrases

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

thought economicsTitle, H1, Meta description9 sampled pages
vikas shahTitle, H1, Meta description5 sampled pages
shah mbe dlTitle, H1, Meta description3 sampled pages
worldTitle, H1, Meta description5 sampled pages
dr vikasTitle, H1, Meta description3 sampled pages
formMeta description5 sampled pages
long formMeta description4 sampled pages
laureates world leadersMeta description3 sampled pages
thinkersTitle, H1, Meta description3 sampled pages
interviewsTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
cultural iconsMeta description3 sampled pages
nobel laureatesMeta 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%
94/100

Domain registration age and expiry were checked.

InfrastructureWeight 10%
88/100

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%
57/100

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 HTMLNo signature match in the sampled HTML
Engine version1.5.4
Signature database date (UTC)2026-10-02T06:26:12+00:00
HTML bytes submitted91,775
Phishing.Database · exact hostnameNot listed in this snapshot
Feed downloaded (UTC)2026-10-03T00:00:08+00:00
Hosts in local snapshot386,082

Sampled scripts and pages

Resource analysis incomplete

6 resources checked · 8 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 domainthoughteconomics.com
Registrar123-Reg Limited
RegisteredOct 29, 2007
Domain age18 years
ExpiresOct 29, 2026
Registry statusesclient delete prohibited · client renew prohibited · client transfer prohibited · client update prohibited
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address77.37.34.55
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://thoughteconomics.com/
Endpoint77.37.34.55
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFNot detected · Not detected
DNS surface9 records · 4 nameservers · 1 mail exchangers
Protection signals1 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 size91,775 bytes
HTTP check duration0 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=Let's Encrypt, commonName=YE1
Valid fromAug 7, 2026
Valid untilNov 5, 2026
Certificate namesthoughteconomics.com · www.thoughteconomics.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.

A77.37.34.55TTL —
NSns1.bdm.microsoftonline.comTTL —
NSns2.bdm.microsoftonline.comTTL —
NSns3.bdm.microsoftonline.comTTL —
NSns4.bdm.microsoftonline.comTTL —
MX0 thoughteconomics-com.mail.protection.outlook.comTTL —
TXTbrevo-code:f12f9066b4681ed4626dd5bd29ace379TTL —
TXTmscid=lbjygkUaWvUC7qRiKDPq8PeBAASQndTU5phykGI54149blI9Duk3ttxZImxl/bTkQ87RwR+dzgZhtbkQgZDBlA==TTL —
TXTv=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spfa.mailendo.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

1 observed
content-security-policypresent upgrade-insecure-requests

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% PHP 88% Tailwind CSS 72% 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: 2026-10-02T02:40:08.012Z.

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

PHPCheck the PHP branch against your host support policy and plan updates before the branch reaches end of security support.
WordPressKeep WordPress core, themes and plugins updated. Remove unused plugins and review administrator accounts.

About this website

What the site says about itself

Founded by Professor Vikas S. Shah, Thought Economics is a journal of intellectual capital, now read in over 120 countries.

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 titleThought Economics - Interviews with the World's Greatest Thinkers
First headingThought Economics — Thought Economics — Interviews with the World's Greatest Thinkers
Description600+ exclusive long-form interviews with Nobel laureates, world leaders, entrepreneurs and cultural icons — hosted by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL.
Canonical URLhttps://thoughteconomics.com/
Final URLhttps://thoughteconomics.com/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=UTF-8 · duration unavailable
Languageen
Structured typesCollectionPage · NewsMediaOrganization · Person · WebSite
Page page detectedhttps://thoughteconomics.com/press/About page detectedhttps://thoughteconomics.com/about-thought-economics/Contact page detectedhttps://thoughteconomics.com/contact/Support page detectedhttps://thoughteconomics.com/?s=Edmund%20Phelps
missing100% evidence confidence
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en100% evidence confidence
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9100% evidence confidence
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1100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp wildcard sources100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions policy present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.hsts present100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp unsafe inline100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp unsafe eval100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp has object src100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp has default src100% 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

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
clear-anchor-wave-774

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 thoughteconomics.com

Visual evidence

Website screenshot

Screenshot of thoughteconomics.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 thoughteconomics.com

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Is thoughteconomics.com safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 71/100 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 thoughteconomics.com?

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 thoughteconomics.com registered?

The public registry record shows Oct 29, 2007. Registration details may be privacy-protected or updated later.

Did thoughteconomics.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 thoughteconomics.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.