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heraldtimesonline.com

HeraldTimesOnline.com is the online version of the Herald Times newspaper, serving Bloomington, Indiana and surrounding areas including Monroe County and Indiana University. The site functions as a community web presence for South-Central Indiana.

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Sourced website trust answer

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Evidence basis

Authority 62/100 · Clear

Source freshness: 83 days old

Trust signals

4 passing

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

Freshness

83 days old

Fresh enough to monitor

Ownership

Unclaimed

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Authority and safety at a glance

Authority

62/100

Safety

90/100

Known risk signals, not a check pass rate

All 4 safety checks passed (Sep 27, 2026).

HTTPS
The website responded over HTTPS.
DNS
The domain resolves through public DNS.
Blacklist / threat feeds
No hit on the threat feed AboutUs checks.
Email authentication
SPF record not found; DMARC record found.
Breach history
Have I Been Pwned has no catalogued breaches for this domain. Absence of a record is not a guarantee that no breach occurred.

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Evidence and details

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

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 62/100ClearCoverage shown; confidence not calibrated

Authority basis: Strong profile signal; AI-enriched legacy archive profile; crawler quality is 87/100. Current model authority score is 62/100 from report-derived and stored evidence inputs. External evidence used: Tranco rank, Open PageRank, RDAP age, Threat feed, DMARC, MX. Core external inputs are attached.
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.

Evidence used now

Score source

Shared v2 model

The report uses the same stored-input model as the profile and directory. Its score, band, reasons and coverage come from that model together.

Safety model

90/100 · Clear

Coverage shown; confidence not calibrated; Safety is 90/100 and current band is Clear.

External popularity

Tranco #115,074 · Open PageRank 2.6/10

Popularity evidence is attached as context, not as a guarantee of safety.

Domain age evidence

23.4 years

RDAP/domain-age context is attached to the safety model from a lookup cached on Jul 5, 2026.

Threat-feed coverage

No unexpired threat-feed result; name-similarity check available (recorded about 36 days ago); 3/3 transport and email checks available (oldest recorded about 36 days ago).

Coverage follows the displayed model and its current-source checks; unknown inputs are not clean results.

Last authority refresh

Aug 22, 2026

Stored authority columns include a refresh timestamp for this profile.

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This is not a fraud verdict or PageRank score. It is an AboutUs signal summary based on current report-derived signals, live checks, ownership, freshness, and evidence source.

Authority includes Open PageRank data.

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Score basis

Owner improvement cap

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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: www.heraldtimesonline.com.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

HTTPS destinationunknown

www.heraldtimesonline.com

HTTPS request for heraldtimesonline.com ended at www.heraldtimesonline.com. This host is within the profile domain. This records the response destination, not an HTML canonical declaration or a configuration diagnosis.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Page metadatagood

The Herald-Times: Local News, Politics & Sports in Bloomington, IN

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

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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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heraldtimesonline.com

Website report: review the evidence and ownership status

Evidence and details

Authority and safety signals are useful with limits

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Trust checks

Owner improvements available

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Owner roadmap

Website report: review the evidence and ownership status

Authority and safety signals are useful with limits

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Trust checks

Owner improvements available

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Owner roadmap

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