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· 17 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
92
GRADE
A
FIX
0
REVIEW
7
PASS
10
INFO
0
Probed from Madrid, Spain
200 OK
Checks
17
10 PASS 7 REVIEW
B
DNSSEC
Unsigned (DNSSEC not deployed)
REVIEW
Unsigned (DNSSEC not deployed)
Info::
DNSSEC is not deployed
The zone is not DNSSEC-signed. Users on validating resolvers (Cloudflare 1.1.1.1, Quad9 9.9.9.9, growing default in mobile resolvers) get no protection against DNS spoofing for this domain. Most registrars now offer DNSSEC at a single click; consider enabling it for sites where authenticity matters (banking, healthcare, government).
B
CAA Records
No CAA records (any CA may issue certificates)
REVIEW
No CAA records (any CA may issue certificates)
Info::
No CAA records published
Without CAA records, any publicly-trusted CA can issue certificates for this domain. Adding a CAA record (`yourdomain. IN CAA 0 issue "letsencrypt.org"`) restricts issuance to CAs you authorize. Required by CAB Forum baseline since 2017; the default of 'any CA' is widely supported but is the broader attack surface for issuance fraud.
C
Reverse DNS
Action
0/4 IPs match cert SAN
REVIEW
0/4 IPs match cert SAN
Info::
PTR lookup failed for 188.114.97.2: lookup 188.114.97.2: no such host
No reverse DNS record set for this IP. Common on bare cloud-VM IPs without provider-side PTR; not a security issue.
Info::
PTR lookup failed for 188.114.96.2: lookup 188.114.96.2: no such host
No reverse DNS record set for this IP. Common on bare cloud-VM IPs without provider-side PTR; not a security issue.
Info::
PTR lookup failed for 2a06:98c1:3120::2: lookup 2a06:98c1:3120::2: no such host
No reverse DNS record set for this IP. Common on bare cloud-VM IPs without provider-side PTR; not a security issue.
Info::
PTR lookup failed for 2a06:98c1:3121::2: lookup 2a06:98c1:3121::2: no such host
No reverse DNS record set for this IP. Common on bare cloud-VM IPs without provider-side PTR; not a security issue.
B
HTTP Probe Timing
Total 990 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown
REVIEW
DNS Lookup DNS Lookup — time to resolve the domain name to an IP address.
39 ms
TCP Connect TCP Connect — time to establish a TCP connection to the server.
17 ms
TLS Handshake TLS Handshake — time to complete the HTTPS encryption handshake.
24 ms
Time to First Byte Time to First Byte — how long the server takes to respond with the first byte of data.
739 ms
Total Time Total request time from DNS lookup through full response.
991 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 39 ms TCP Connect 17 ms TLS Handshake 24 ms Server Processing 660 ms Content Transfer 252 ms
B
TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations
75 days until leaf cert expires — 3 issues to address
REVIEW

Certificate validity

75
days left
0d 30d 60d 90d+

Recommended actions

  • Add the preload directive and submit to hstspreload.org once max-age + includeSubDomains are in place
  • Enable DNSSEC on your domain for DNS spoofing protection
  • Enable OCSP stapling on your TLS server to remove a CA roundtrip and protect user privacy
B
Operational Status Page
No status page link detected
REVIEW
No status page link detected
Info::
No operational status page link detected
Status pages communicate planned maintenance and incidents to users -- a hallmark of operationally-mature services. Most SaaS teams publish one via Atlassian Statuspage, Instatus, BetterUptime, or a self-hosted Cachet. Smaller sites legitimately don't need one; flagged as Info, not a failure.
B
Health Check Endpoint
No conventional health endpoint found
REVIEW
No conventional health endpoint found
Info::
No conventional health endpoint found
Health endpoints (/health, /healthz, /status, /ping, /api/health) let uptime monitors, load balancers, and orchestration systems (Kubernetes, ECS, Fly.io) verify the service is alive. Marketing sites and small services often skip them legitimately; flagged as Info, not a failure. Probe results: /api/health: 404, /health: 404, /healthz: 404, /ping: 404, /status: 404.
A+
DNS Records
2 A records, 38 ms lookup
PASS
2 A records, 38 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 2 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 188.114.97.2, 188.114.96.2
Info::
Has 2 IPv6 (AAAA) record(s)
Got: 2a06:98c1:3120::2, 2a06:98c1:3121::2
Info::
2 nameserver(s) configured
Got: dave.ns.cloudflare.com, cass.ns.cloudflare.com
Info::
2 mail exchanger(s) configured
Info::
SPF record present in TXT
Info::
DNS resolution time: 38 ms
Got: 38 ms
A188.114.97.2, 188.114.96.2
AAAA2a06:98c1:3120::2, 2a06:98c1:3121::2
CNAME—
NSdave.ns.cloudflare.com, cass.ns.cloudflare.com
MX
10 mx84.dns.com.cn
20 hkmx20.dns.com.cn
TXT
SPF v=spf1 include:spf.dns.com.cn -all
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 38 ms
A+
Subdomain Takeover
No subdomain takeover risk detected
PASS
No subdomain takeover risk detected
Info::
No CNAME record present
A+
Multi-Resolver DNS Speed
Mean 13ms across 3 resolvers (spread 19ms)
PASS
Mean 13ms across 3 resolvers (spread 19ms)
Info::
Quad9: 1ms
Got: 1ms via 9.9.9.9:53
Info::
Google: 20ms
Got: 20ms via 8.8.8.8:53
Info::
Cloudflare: 20ms
Got: 20ms via 1.1.1.1:53
A+
Redirect Chain
No redirects — direct access
PASS
No redirects — direct access
Info::
No redirects — direct access
Got: https://balford.net

https://balford.net

666 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://balford.net200666 msHTTP/1.1cloudflare
A+
IPv6 Readiness
IPv6 reachable (17 ms)
PASS
IPv6 reachable (17 ms)
Info::
IPv6 is configured and reachable at 2a06:98c1:3120::2, 2a06:98c1:3121::2
Got: 17 ms connect
IPv6 Ready
AAAA Records 2a06:98c1:3120::2, 2a06:98c1:3121::2 Connection Reachable (17 ms)
A+
Crawlability
robots.txt present, sitemap with 2090 URLs
PASS
robots.txt present, sitemap with 2090 URLs
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 2165 bytes
Info::
sitemap.xml is present
Info::
sitemap.xml is valid XML
Info::
sitemap.xml contains 2090 entries
Info::
robots.txt references sitemap
robots.txt 200 OK
Size 2165 B Sitemaps referenced 1 User-agents Perplexity-User, Applebot, AI2Bot, MiniMaxBot, GPTBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, AI2Bot-Dolma, *, Meta-ExternalFetcher, Omgilibot, AhrefsBot, CCBot, ImagesiftBot, img2dataset, Youbot, KimiCrawler, Timpibot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, GoogleOther, Meta-ExternalAgent, Webzio-Extended, cohere-ai, DeepSeekBot, Claude-User, Google-CloudVertexBot, PerplexityBot, PetalBot, HunyuanBot, SemrushBot-OCOB, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, anthropic-ai, Amazonbot, Diffbot, YisouSpider, QwenBot, DuckAssistBot, cohere-training-data-crawler, MistralAI-User, Bytespider, PanguBot, DoubaoBot Blocking No — crawling allowed
# Balford — robots.txt
# AI / LLM crawlers are explicitly welcome: search indexing, AI answers
# and model training are all permitted. Only internal tooling / ERP,
# admin, API and legacy WordPress endpoints stay excluded.

User-Agent: *
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes
Allow: /
Disallow: /erp/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /assets/
Disallow: /author/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: */comments
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: */feed/
Disallow: */feed
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /?post_type=

# --- AI / LLM crawlers: allowed (search, answers, training) ---
User-Agent: GPTBot
User-Agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-Agent: ChatGPT-User
User-Agent: ClaudeBot
User-Agent: Claude-User
User-Agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-Agent: anthropic-ai
User-Agent: Google-Extended
User-Agent: GoogleOther
User-Agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
User-Agent: PerplexityBot
User-Agent: Perplexity-User
User-Agent: DuckAssistBot
User-Agent: Applebot
User-Agent: Applebot-Extended
User-Agent: Amazonbot
User-Agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-Agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-Agent: CCBot
User-Agent: AI2Bot
User-Agent: AI2Bot-Dolma
User-Agent: ImagesiftBot
User-Agent: img2dataset
User-Agent: Webzio-Extended
User-Agent: Diffbot
User-Agent: Omgilibot
User-Agent: Timpibot
User-Agent: cohere-ai
User-Agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-Agent: MistralAI-User
User-Agent: Youbot
User-Agent: Bytespider
User-Agent: PanguBot
User-Agent: PetalBot
User-Agent: YisouSpider
User-Agent: DeepSeekBot
User-Agent: KimiCrawler
User-Agent: QwenBot
User-Agent: MiniMaxBot
User-Agent: HunyuanBot
User-Agent: DoubaoBot
User-Agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
User-Agent: AhrefsBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /erp/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /assets/
Disallow: /author/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: */comments
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: */feed/
Disallow: */feed
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /?post_type=

# Structured feeds for AI agents
# llms.txt:      https://balford.net/llms.txt
# llms-full.txt: https://balford.net/llms-full.txt

Host: https://balford.net
Sitemap: https://balford.net/sitemap.xml
sitemap.xml 200 OK
Type URL Set URLs 2090 entries Valid XML Yes
Sample URLs:
A+
URL Variants
www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS
PASS
www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS
Info::
www/non-www redirect configured correctly (preferred: non-www)
Info::
HTTP correctly redirects to HTTPS permanently
Got: HTTP 301

www / non-www

301https://www.balford.net/
200https://balford.net/

Preferred variant: non-www

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://balford.net/ → https://balford.net/

Consistent

A+
Domain Intelligence
balford.net — via 22net, Inc., 7 years, 10 months old
PASS
balford.net — via 22net, Inc., 7 years, 10 months old
Info::
Domain registered until Dec 23, 2026 (3 months remaining)
Info::
DNSSEC is not enabled
DNSSEC protects against DNS spoofing attacks. While not required, enabling DNSSEC adds an additional layer of security. Contact your DNS provider to enable it.
Info::
Registrar: 22net, Inc.
Warning::
Registrar lock is NOT enabled
The domain can be transferred without an unlock step. Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) in your registrar's control panel to protect against unauthorized or accidental transfers.
Domain expiry

93 days

December 23, 2026

SSL certificate

75 days

Issued by Google Trust Services

Domain age

7 years, 10 months

Registered December 23, 2018

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

Unknown

2a06:98c1:3121::2

Registrar

22net, Inc.

Unlocked 2 NS records
Expiry timeline
Today
+1 year
Domain expiry SSL expiry Danger zone (≤30 days)
Recommended actions
  • Enable DNSSEC to protect visitors from DNS spoofing
  • Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) to block unauthorized domain transfers
Registrar 22net, Inc.
Created December 23, 2018 (7 years, 10 months ago)
Expires December 23, 2026 (3 months)
Last Updated August 29, 2026
Name Servers cass.ns.cloudflare.com, dave.ns.cloudflare.com
DNSSEC Not enabled
Hosting
IP Address 2a06:98c1:3121::2
Data source: rdap (0.2s)

DNSSEC protects against DNS spoofing attacks. While not required, enabling DNSSEC adds an additional layer of security. Contact your DNS provider to enable it.

Why this matters

Without DNSSEC, an attacker who can poison your DNS can hijack your domain — and SSL certs alone don't stop them.

Learn more ▾

DNSSEC adds cryptographic signatures to DNS records, preventing forged responses from poisoning resolver caches. Without it, an attacker who controls the network path can redirect your domain to a malicious server before any HTTPS handshake happens. Most modern registrars (Cloudflare, Google Domains, Route 53) enable it with one toggle.

Source: ICANN / RFC 4033

The domain can be transferred without an unlock step. Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) in your registrar's control panel to protect against unauthorized or accidental transfers.

Why this matters

Without registrar lock, an attacker who phishes your registrar credentials can transfer the domain in minutes — total brand hijack.

Learn more ▾

Registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited, clientUpdateProhibited, clientDeleteProhibited) requires extra verification before any transfer/update/delete. Every major registrar offers it free. Combined with 2FA on your registrar account, it's the strongest defense against domain hijacking.

Source: ICANN / domain-security best practice

A
CDN & Delivery
Cloudflare (DYNAMIC)
PASS
Cloudflare (DYNAMIC)
Info::
Document is served via Cloudflare CDN (edge: CDG)
Got: cf-ray: a3a6bcef7aa22a4d-CDG
Info::
CDN cache status: DYNAMIC
Document served via CDN: Cloudflare
Provider Cloudflare Cache Status DYNAMIC Evidence cf-ray: a3a6bcef7aa22a4d-CDG
A+
CDN Cache Observability
Cache state: DYNAMIC
PASS
Cache state: DYNAMIC
Info::
CDN cache state observable via 1 header(s)
Got: cf-cache-status=DYNAMIC
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