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Authority

99/100

Safety

90/100

Registered

Mar 21, 1995

31 years old · MarkMonitor Inc.

On record

since 2006

4 of 5 safety checks passed (Sep 3, 2026).

AboutUs has not vetted this site. 1 of 5 automated safety check did not pass. Everything below is what we could measure automatically. Anything you do on the site — paying, sharing personal details, downloading — is between you and the site, not AboutUs.

Current facts

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Domain registered Mar 21, 1995 — 31 years old.

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Registrar today: MarkMonitor Inc. — unchanged since AboutUs began tracking (Aug 31, 2026).

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Live site responds over HTTPS.

Trust record

Authority & Safety, with the evidence

How this is scored →

Authority 99/100 — in the top 1% of scored sitesClear

Why this authority score

Prominence (Tranco rank #7,403; Open PageRank 4.5/10)+15
Verified continuity: 31.4 years (RDAP registration)+11
Security & email hygiene+4
Prominence × continuity interaction+1
Calibration adjustment (published map)+24

Every point maps to a sentence. These lines sum to the model score of 55/99, which is what places this site at 99/100 against every other scored site.

Safety evidence

All checked sources came back clean

Site history

Dated record — historical facts always carry their date.

1995
Domain registered (Mar 21, 1995).
2006
First tracked by AboutUs (Jun 21, 2006); profile edited 3 times through 2013.
2026
Checked today — 4 of 5 safety checks passed (Sep 3, 2026).

✓ domain continuity 31 years registered✓ live verified Sep 3, 2026

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