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cio.com

CIO.com provides articles, research, and resources for chief information officers and IT leaders, produced by CXO Media, a business unit of International Data Group.

Report download includes score, source freshness, authority evidence including domain age, visible findings, owner action summary, correction prefill context, owner-intake submit expectations, and paid next steps.

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Owner forwarding summary

I found this AboutUs website report for cio.com:
https://aboutus.com/cio.com/report

This summary keeps the score, trust findings, ownership status, and paid outcome in one message so the recipient knows why the report matters and what to do next.

Why it matters:
- Why this free report is useful: 89/100 Strong website report; Search eligible; Unclaimed; 1 visible finding.
- Authority evidence to trust now: Safety: Clear current signals; High confidence. Score source: Refreshed profile columns. External popularity: Tranco #5,847 · Open PageRank 3.5/10. Domain age: 31.5 years. Threat feed: Not attached. Refresh: Aug 20, 2026.
- Source freshness to verify: Fresh enough to monitor; 78 days old. Evidence source: Crawler-backed profile. Review state: Auto Published. Last crawl: Jun 19, 2026. Source freshness is evidence context, not owner control; DNS proof is still required before payment or paid setup.
- What the owner should do first: Claim this profile: Submit the owner request and prove control with a DNS TXT record for this domain. This points the owner to start owner claim before public facts or payment move further.
- Top report finding to resolve: Fix first: No verified owner controls this profile. Outcome: Owner-controlled edits, verified status, stronger launch confidence, and paid owner setup.
- Paid value after verification: Claimed Profile can be scoped after owner proof. Connects upgrade interest to monitoring, lead capture, exports, or labeled discovery.
- Link to send: Share https://aboutus.com/cio.com/report as the review link, then use the claim form to generate DNS proof if this is their website.

Suggested next step: open the report and start owner activation if this is your website.

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Report summary

Owner improvements available

Moderate report issues can be improved with verified owner facts, fresh crawler evidence, or corrected profile details.

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Report score

89/100

Strong website report

Launch state

Search eligible

Eligible for launch indexing

Owner status

Claimable

No owner has verified domain control for this profile yet. Crawler and archive evidence remain visible, and official facts should be submitted through review.

Search visibility

Indexable public profile

This crawler-backed profile passed the public publication gate.

Can I trust this site?

Sourced website trust answer

Website report verdict: useful report with an obvious claim path

This 89/100 report already helps visitors evaluate the website; claiming turns it into an owner-controlled record.

Facts, not verdicts. AboutUs shows sourced signals and the next owner action; it is not a scam label.

Evidence basis

Authority 97/100 · Clear current signals

Source freshness: 78 days old

Trust signals

5 passing

Core live checks are healthy enough for visitors to use this as a current website snapshot.

Freshness

78 days old

Fresh enough to monitor

Ownership

Unclaimed

Submit the owner request and prove control with a DNS TXT record for this domain.

Next step

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Authority and safety snapshot

Authority and safety signals look usable

This report combines public evidence source, live checks, freshness, and ownership status so readers can evaluate the website without treating the score as a popularity rank.

Authority 97/100Clear current signalsHigh confidence

Authority basis: Strong profile signal; AI-enriched legacy archive profile; crawler quality is 87/100. Current model authority score is 97/100 from report-derived and stored evidence inputs. External evidence used: Tranco rank, Open PageRank, RDAP age, DMARC, MX. Missing external inputs: Threat feed.
Safety band: Clear current signals · Safety 90/100; Model band: Clear. No current live trust check is producing a warning in this report. New or unclaimed status is not treated as unsafe by itself, and absence of external threat-feed data is not treated as a clean bill of health.

Evidence used now

Score source

Refreshed profile columns

AboutUs is using stored authority refresh output for this report.

Score basis

Owner improvement cap

The findings below are holding this score down. Resolving them raises it.

Trust checks

Current public signals checked for this report.

DNSgood

4 records

The domain resolves through public DNS.

Source: AboutUs public DNS lookup

HTTPSgood

Reachable

The website responded over HTTPS.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Canonical hostgood

cio.com

HTTPS request stayed on the profile domain.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Page metadatagood

CIO.com - The voice of IT leadership

AboutUs could not find a meta description in the first page response.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Security headersgood

2/3 present

Checks for HSTS, Content-Security-Policy, and X-Frame-Options headers.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Breach historygood

No breaches on record

Have I Been Pwned has no catalogued breaches for this domain. Absence of a record is not a guarantee that no breach occurred.

Source: Have I Been Pwned

Report findings

What should improve before this profile becomes a stronger launch or owner asset.

mediumOwner must doNo verified owner controls this profile
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The website owner needs to prove domain control with DNS before AboutUs treats owner facts as official.
Unlocks: Owner-controlled edits, verified status, stronger launch confidence, and paid owner setup.
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Owner roadmap

The recommended path from public report to verified owner value.

1Claim with DNS verificationNextSubmit the owner request and add the AboutUs TXT record at the domain DNS provider.Unlocks the owner badge, trusted corrections, and paid owner tools for this profile.Start claim
2Resolve: No verified owner controls this profileLaterClaim and verify this profile to turn public crawler data into an owner-confirmed trust record.Improves the free report before asking owners or visitors to trust it.Send correction

cio.com

Owner improvements available

Website report verdict: useful report with an obvious claim path

Authority and safety signals look usable

Trust checks

Report findings

Owner roadmap

Owner improvements available

Website report verdict: useful report with an obvious claim path

Authority and safety signals look usable

Trust checks

Report findings

Owner roadmap

Claim the report

Recommended owner plan

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