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UnclaimedStraightDope.com - Personal blog of Cecil Adams provoking interesting debates
Home of Cecil Adams' weekly question and answer column.
4 of 5 safety checks passed (Sep 4, 2026).
What AboutUs observed on the live site and in WHOIS/DNS today. These are measurements, not an endorsement of the site.
Domain registered Dec 23, 1995 — 30 years old.
Registrar today: Amazon Registrar, Inc. — unchanged since AboutUs began tracking (Aug 16, 2026).
Live site responds over HTTPS.
Trust record
Authority 95/100 — ahead of 95% of scored sitesClear
Every point maps to a sentence. These lines sum to the model score of 49/99, which is what places this site at 95/100 against every other scored site.
Dated record — historical facts always carry their date; self-description below is the 2013 record.
Domain registered (Dec 23, 1995).
First tracked by AboutUs (Jun 21, 2006); profile edited 4 times through 2013.
Self-description at the time:
“StraightDope.com - Personal blog of Cecil Adams provoking interesting debates”
Checked today — 4 of 5 safety checks passed (Sep 4, 2026).