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download.com

Download.com is a free software and media download site operated by CNET, offering over 100,000 pieces of freeware, shareware, and free-trial software alongside music and games. The site serves end users seeking downloads and maintains a zero-tolerance policy for adware and spyware. According to the site, it was launched in 1996.

Can I trust this site?

Sourced website trust answer

Website report: review the evidence and ownership status

The live checks and dated facts below help you evaluate this website. If you own it, claiming it free turns this into an owner-controlled record.

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

Clean current signals

No live check or safety-model signal has flagged an issue on this snapshot.

Source freshness: 17 days old

Authority

Not scored yet

Not enough independent signals yet

Safety

90/100

No known risk flags

Known risk signals, not a check pass rate

All 4 safety checks passed (Oct 16, 2026).

Blacklist / threat feeds
Threat-feed coverage is not attached for this domain yet.

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Evidence and details

The Authority/Safety methodology, live trust checks, and infrastructure context behind the answer above.

Trust checks

Current public signals checked for this report.

DNSgood

1 record

The domain resolves through public DNS.

Source: AboutUs public DNS lookup

HTTPSgood

Reachable

The website responded over HTTPS. Checked HTTPS host: download.cnet.com.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

HTTPS destinationunknown

download.cnet.com

HTTPS request for download.com ended at download.cnet.com. This host is outside the profile domain; check that it is the intended destination. This records the response destination, not an HTML canonical declaration or a configuration diagnosis.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Page metadatagood

Free Software Downloads and Reviews for Windows, Android, Mac, and iOS - CNET Download

CNET Download provides free downloads for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android devices across all categories of software and apps, including security, utilities, games, video and browsers

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Security headersgood

3/3 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

How this report is built— Authority/Safety methodology, Open PageRank attribution, confidence

Authority and safety snapshot

Authority and safety signals are useful with limits

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 —ClearCoverage shown; confidence not calibrated

Authority basis: Developing profile signal; AI-enriched legacy archive profile; crawler quality is 70/100. No authority score is published yet 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 · 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.

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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.

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

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Owner roadmap

The recommended path from public report to verified owner value.

1Claim and verify your domain for freeNextOwner access stays free. Complete DNS proof before subscribing to monitoring for this domain.Submit factual corrections for review and keep the public record accurate.Claim profile
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Trust checks

Current public signals checked for this report.

DNSgood

1 record

The domain resolves through public DNS.

Source: AboutUs public DNS lookup

HTTPSgood

Reachable

The website responded over HTTPS. Checked HTTPS host: download.cnet.com.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

HTTPS destinationunknown

download.cnet.com

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Page metadatagood

Free Software Downloads and Reviews for Windows, Android, Mac, and iOS - CNET Download

CNET Download provides free downloads for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android devices across all categories of software and apps, including security, utilities, games, video and browsers

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Security headersgood

3/3 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

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Website report: review the evidence and ownership status

Evidence and details

Trust checks

Authority and safety signals are useful with limits

Owner improvements available

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Owner roadmap

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