Website reputation report

toptenbooks.net

Last checked 4 days ago · Point-in-time assessment

74/100Technical Safety ScoreIndependent technical assessment, not a visitor rating
● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

Scott Turow may be one of his generation’s most successful writers of thrillers, but he’s a lot more like William Faulkner than Raymond Chandler. Like the Mississippi master, Turow has set most of his 13 novels in a single fictional place – he calls his Yoknapatawpha Kindle County. But unlike many genre writers, he doesn’t focus on a single hero. Instead, characters from Kindle weave in and out of his books, with different ones getting star turns.

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

74/100Safety 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 Infrastructure83 Website Security95 Security Hygiene55 Transparency67 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.

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 toptenbooks.net

Updated Oct 22, 2026

The latest scan examined 10 public pages on toptenbooks.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: Scott Turow may be one of his generation’s most successful writers of thrillers, but he’s a lot more like William Faulkner than Raymond Chandler.…

Registrar and domain history

Registered on Mar 19, 2006. Registrar: Network Solutions, LLC.

Recorded expiry date: Mar 19, 2029. Registry data can change.

Connection and hosting evidence

The checked homepage returned HTTP 200.

A valid TLS certificate was observed, expiring Dec 2, 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: 74/100. Evidence Confidence: 70%. These measure different things.

Community reviews of toptenbooks.net

No approved reviews yet ☆☆☆☆☆

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 toptenbooks.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.

The Top Ten | Writers Pick Their Favorite BooksWelcome to The Top Ten, curated by J. Peder Zane. Dive into favorite book lists from celebrated authors and find your next great read among literary legends. About the Editor | The Top Ten Bookshttps://toptenbooks.net/about-editor Great Writers Show Their Appreciation | The Top Ten BooksWe launched Top Ten Books because we had to know: Which books do our favorite authors deem the best ever written? When they gave us the answer we wanted more: Why do these particul Scott Turow Heads Back to Court | The Top Ten BooksScott Turow may be one of his generation’s most successful writers of thrillers, but he’s a lot more like William Faulkner than Raymond Chandler. Like the Mississippi master, Turow William Boyd Shoots for the Moon | The Top Ten BooksIf you love a knotty spy thriller, check out the latest gem from Top Ten contributor William Boyd, Gabriel’s Moon. Set in London, Spain, Africa and behind the Iron Curtain during t Percival Everett Completes Huck Finn | The Top Ten BooksThere’s only a tiny handful of Americans writers whose skill is so deep and imagination so wide that they seem to reinvent themselves with every book — whose truly amazing talent l Paul Auster - 1947-2024 | The Top Ten BooksWe are sad to learn of the death of Paul Auster. The New York Times reports that “the prolific novelist, memoirist and screenwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s with his postmoder David Anthony Durham Appreciates Mario Vargas Llosa | The Top Ten BooksAppreciation of Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Green House by David Anthony Durham I remember wandering through the world literature section of my university library, feeling a bit lost, Edwidge Danticat Appreciates Jacques Roumain | The Top Ten BooksAppreciation of Jacques Roumain’s Masters of the Dew by Edwidge Danticat This novel charmed Langston Hughes and Mercer Cook so much that when they visited Haiti in the 1940s they d Fred Chappell Appreciates Rabelais | The Top Ten BooksAppreciation of François Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel by Fred Chappell The stories of the giant Gargantua and his giant son Pantagruel, of their birth, nurture, education, an

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on toptenbooks.net

12 phrases

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

booksTitle, Meta description10 sampled pages
ten booksTitle, Meta description9 sampled pages
appreciatesTitle, H13 sampled pages
writersTitle, H1, Meta description4 sampled pages
appreciationTitle, H1, Meta description4 sampled pages
theirTitle, H1, Meta description3 sampled pages
williamTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
appreciation ofMeta description3 sampled pages
greatTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
thatMeta description3 sampled pages
theyMeta description3 sampled pages
favoriteTitle, Meta description2 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%
83/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
95/100

Observed certificate validity and TLS protocol were checked.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
55/100

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%
67/100

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)2026-10-22T06:24:11+00:00
HTML bytes submitted53,318
Phishing.Database · exact hostnameNot listed in this snapshot
Feed downloaded (UTC)2026-10-22T12:00:06+00:00
Hosts in local snapshot386,082

Sampled scripts and pages

Resource analysis incomplete

6 resources checked · 11 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 scripts11
Inline scripts2
Embedded frames0
External script hosts4

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 domaintoptenbooks.net
RegistrarNetwork Solutions, LLC
RegisteredMar 19, 2006
Domain age20 years
ExpiresMar 19, 2029
Registry statusesclient transfer prohibited
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address209.42.21.42
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://toptenbooks.net/
Endpoint209.42.21.42
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFNot detected · Not detected
DNS surface4 records · 2 nameservers · 1 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 size53,318 bytes
HTTP check duration0 ms
Cookies observedUnavailable
Script resources11 · 4 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=YR2
Valid fromSep 3, 2026
Valid untilDec 2, 2026
Certificate namesautoconfig.toptenbooks.net · autodiscover.toptenbooks.net · cpanel.toptenbooks.net · cpcalendars.toptenbooks.net · cpcontacts.toptenbooks.net · mail.toptenbooks.net · toptenbooks.net · webdisk.toptenbooks.net · webmail.toptenbooks.net · www.toptenbooks.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.

A209.42.21.42TTL —
NSns1.futurewave.infoTTL —
NSns2.futurewave.infoTTL —
MX0 toptenbooks.netTTL —

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

2 observed
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

Bootstrap 80% Google Analytics 94%

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: 2026-10-22T02:40:07.901Z.

jquery 3.7.1 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.

About this website

What the site says about itself

Scott Turow may be one of his generation’s most successful writers of thrillers, but he’s a lot more like William Faulkner than Raymond Chandler. Like the Mississippi master, Turow has set most of his 13 novels in a single fictional place – he calls his Yoknapatawpha Kindle County. But unlike many genre writers, he doesn’t focus on a single hero. Instead, characters from Kindle weave in and out of his books, with different ones getting star turns.

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.

Emailtoptenbooks714@gmail.comSource: https://toptenbooks.net/

Structured facts

Website identity & response

Public page metadata
Page titleThe Top Ten | Writers Pick Their Favorite Books
First headingUnavailable
DescriptionWelcome to The Top Ten, curated by J. Peder Zane. Dive into favorite book lists from celebrated authors and find your next great read among literary legends.
Canonical URLhttps://toptenbooks.net/
Final URLhttps://toptenbooks.net/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=UTF-8 · duration unavailable
Languageen
Structured typesNone observed
Page page detectedhttps://toptenbooks.net/blog/percival-everett-completes-huck-finnAbout page detectedhttps://toptenbooks.net/about-editor
missing100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
en100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
4100% evidence confidence
2100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions policy present100% 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

Connection path

Redirect chain

0 recorded hops

No redirect hop was recorded for the sampled homepage.

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What changed

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Explainable matching

Digital fingerprint

fingerprint-v1
bright-orbit-web-155

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

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Questions about toptenbooks.net

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Is toptenbooks.net safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 74/100 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 toptenbooks.net?

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 toptenbooks.net registered?

The public registry record shows Mar 19, 2006. Registration details may be privacy-protected or updated later.

Did toptenbooks.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 toptenbooks.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.

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