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w3.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops web standards and guidelines to help build a web based on accessibility, internationalization, privacy, and security. It is an international community of member organizations, staff, and the public that coordinates standardization work across browsers, search engines, and web software. W3C has operated for over 30 years and is structured as a public-interest non-profit with a Board of Directors, Advisory Board, and Technical Architecture 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 w3.org:
https://aboutus.com/w3.org/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: 74/100 Owner action needed; Search eligible; Claim requested; 1 visible finding.
- Authority evidence to trust now: Safety: Review before relying; High confidence. Score source: Refreshed profile columns. External popularity: Tranco #178 · Open PageRank 5.7/10. Domain age: 32.1 years. Threat feed: Attached. Refresh: Aug 19, 2026.
- Source freshness to verify: Fresh enough to monitor; 9 days old. Evidence source: Crawler-backed profile. Review state: Auto Published. Last crawl: Aug 25, 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: Finish DNS verification: Complete or refresh the TXT challenge so AboutUs can attach the verified owner to this profile. This points the owner to continue dns verification before public facts or payment move further.
- Top report finding to resolve: Fix first: Owner verification is not finished. 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. Creates paid value around monitoring and alerts before visibility spend.
- Link to send: Share https://aboutus.com/w3.org/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

Urgent owner action

Resolve high-priority trust, verification, or visibility issues before treating this profile as launch-ready.

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Report score

74/100

Owner action needed

Launch state

Search eligible

Eligible for launch indexing

Owner status

Claim pending

An owner or operator has started verification, but domain control has not been confirmed yet. Public search visibility and payment stay limited until the claim is verified or resolved.

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: fix trust before launch

This is still a useful free report, but the 74/100 score should route owners to the blocking action before checkout or launch visibility.

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

Evidence basis

Authority 100/100 · Review before relying

Source freshness: 9 days old

Trust signals

5 passing

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

Freshness

9 days old

Fresh enough to monitor

Ownership

Claim in progress

Complete or refresh the TXT challenge so AboutUs can attach the verified owner to this profile.

Next step

Finish DNS verification

Complete or refresh the TXT challenge so AboutUs can attach the verified owner to this profile.

Authority and safety snapshot

Authority and safety signals are useful with limits

This report is useful as a current website snapshot, but the signal model shows where confidence is limited before visitors, owners, or paid tools rely on it.

Authority 100/100Review before relyingHigh confidence

Authority basis: Developing profile signal; AI-enriched current website profile; crawler quality is 80/100. Current model authority score is 100/100 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: Review before relying · 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

High-priority action cap

High-priority 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

w3.org

HTTPS request stayed on the profile domain.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Page metadatagood

W3C

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build a web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and secur

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.

highOwner must doOwner verification is not finished
Finish the DNS TXT challenge, or submit this form again to generate a fresh challenge if the original record was lost. Verification unlocks owner status and paid owner work.
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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.

1Finish DNS verificationBlockedThe owner claim is in progress. Complete or refresh the TXT challenge before payment or launch promotion unlocks.Turns this from an interested-owner profile into a verified owner record.Continue verification
2Resolve: Owner verification is not finishedNextFinish the DNS TXT challenge, or submit this form again to generate a fresh challenge if the original record was lost. Verification unlocks owner status and paid owner work.Improves the free report before asking owners or visitors to trust it.Send correction

w3.org

Urgent owner action

Website report verdict: fix trust before launch

Authority and safety signals are useful with limits

Trust checks

Report findings

Owner roadmap

Urgent owner action

Website report verdict: fix trust before launch

Authority and safety signals are useful with limits

Trust checks

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Owner roadmap

Finish DNS verification

Recommended owner plan

Finish verification before paying for w3.org

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