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Infrastructure

· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
83
GRADE
B
FIX
1
REVIEW
2
PASS
6
INFO
0
Probed from Santa Clara, United States
200 OK
Checks
9
6 PASS 2 REVIEW 1 FIX
F
IPv6 Readiness
Action
IPv6 records exist but unreachable
FIX
IPv6 records exist but unreachable
Warning::
IPv6 DNS records exist but server is not reachable
Having AAAA records but an unreachable server is worse than no AAAA — clients may experience delays before falling back to IPv4.
Got: 2606:4700:20::681a:d59, 2606:4700:20::681a:c59, 2606:4700:20::ac43:4869
Info::
IPv6 connection error
Got: dial tcp6 [2606:4700:20::681a:d59]:443: connect: network is unreachable
IPv6 Misconfigured
AAAA Records 2606:4700:20::681a:d59, 2606:4700:20::681a:c59, 2606:4700:20::ac43:4869 Connection UNREACHABLE

Having AAAA records but an unreachable server is worse than no AAAA — clients may experience delays before falling back to IPv4.

Why this matters

Advertising IPv6 (AAAA records) without a reachable server means IPv6-preferring clients silently fail every connection.

Learn more

Modern browsers prefer IPv6 if AAAA exists (Happy Eyeballs algorithm). If the IPv6 server isn't reachable, browsers fall back to IPv4 — but with seconds of added latency per request. Either fix IPv6 reachability or remove the AAAA records.

Source: RFC 8305 (Happy Eyeballs)

B
Domain Intelligence
gameinformer.com — via GoDaddy.com, LLC, 31 years, 4 months old, hosted on Cloudflare
REVIEW
gameinformer.com — via GoDaddy.com, LLC, 31 years, 4 months old, hosted on Cloudflare
Critical::
Domain expires in 30 days
This domain expires on May 23, 2026. Domains that expire accidentally cause complete website downtime. Enable auto-renewal or renew manually now.
Got: Expires May 23, 2026
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: GoDaddy.com, LLC
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.
Info::
Hosting: Cloudflare
Got: AS13335
Domain expiry

EXPIRED

May 23, 2026

SSL certificate

78 days

Issued by Google Trust Services

Domain age

31 years, 4 months

Registered May 24, 1995

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

Cloudflare

ASN AS13335

104.26.12.89

Registrar

GoDaddy.com, LLC

Unlocked 2 NS records
Expiry timeline
Today
+1 year
Domain expiry SSL expiry Danger zone (≤30 days)
Recommended actions
  • Domain has EXPIRED — renew immediately to avoid total site outage
  • Enable DNSSEC to protect visitors from DNS spoofing
  • Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) to block unauthorized domain transfers
Registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC
Created May 24, 1995 (31 years, 4 months ago)
Expires May 23, 2026 (1 months)
Last Updated February 21, 2025
Name Servers gabe.ns.cloudflare.com, venus.ns.cloudflare.com
DNSSEC Not enabled
Hosting
IP Address 104.26.12.89
ASN AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US)
Provider Cloudflare
Data source: rdap (0.1s)

This domain expires on May 23, 2026. Domains that expire accidentally cause complete website downtime. Enable auto-renewal or renew manually now.

Why this matters

Domain expiry approaching — renew immediately and ensure auto-renew + alerting are configured.

Source: ICANN renewal policy

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

B
TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations
78 days until leaf cert expires — 3 issues to address
REVIEW

Certificate validity

78
days left
0d 30d 60d 90d+

Recommended actions

  • Enable HSTS: Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
  • 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
A+
DNS Records
3 A records, 8 ms lookup
PASS
3 A records, 8 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 3 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 172.67.72.105, 104.26.13.89, 104.26.12.89
Info::
Has 3 IPv6 (AAAA) record(s)
Got: 2606:4700:20::681a:d59, 2606:4700:20::681a:c59, 2606:4700:20::ac43:4869
Info::
2 nameserver(s) configured
Got: gabe.ns.cloudflare.com, venus.ns.cloudflare.com
Info::
1 mail exchanger(s) configured
Info::
CAA records not checked
CAA record lookup requires a specialized DNS resolver. This check will be available in a future update.
Info::
SPF record present in TXT
Info::
DNS resolution time: 8 ms
Got: 8 ms
A172.67.72.105, 104.26.13.89, 104.26.12.89
AAAA2606:4700:20::681a:d59, 2606:4700:20::681a:c59, 2606:4700:20::ac43:4869
CNAME
NSgabe.ns.cloudflare.com, venus.ns.cloudflare.com
MX
0 gameinformer-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
TXT
0ed1fe018a0b915c52b8bb4cfba53efc
MS=ms56699401
XX82kvx5dbDpYr5ORdbp9GLz95ICuzn2CFts2WXjYJZCRAyoyDqk2YhyhQiteRGzenZSmrBs/cpeKSaI...
_globalsign-domain-verification=8isKCawRZikUYgJvrj3L4sjzEB4Dxh4YbK-_Q3A9CJ
adobe-idp-site-verification=205f6f69431f5eb1b40d2e7353e51b8fa76ec4c4aaa21fbdf071...
brevo-code:c167f097b1a598486ee5901fd97db1dc
google-site-verification=RT_T_PQxndTPHmcsIb-MgisWGKDUCudCJN4GDk39pys
google-site-verification=eKB6zQcFQLGNg3vlgsrdPc6avCf0rXJL17ySPVOYNHk
google-site-verification=o5A7Uv9IqgeB7CmagZll1TjQbSFAurfCiiPpEXqrUlc
mailerlite-domain-verification=c08e282010f552f54a16b4de23de8b62623edb86
rippling-domain-verification=e771cd4bb170d846
SPF v=spf1 include:_spf.mlsend.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:sendgr...
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 8 ms

CAA record lookup requires a specialized DNS resolver. This check will be available in a future update.

Why this matters

Informational: CAA (Certification Authority Authorization) records weren't checked in this scan.

A+
Redirect Chain
No redirects — direct access
PASS
No redirects — direct access
Info::
No redirects — direct access
Got: https://gameinformer.com

https://gameinformer.com

50 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://gameinformer.com20050 msHTTP/1.1cloudflare
A+
Crawlability
robots.txt present, sitemap with 49 URLs
PASS
robots.txt present, sitemap with 49 URLs
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 4137 bytes
Info::
sitemap.xml is present
Info::
sitemap.xml is valid XML
Info::
sitemap.xml contains 49 entries
Info::
Sitemap index with 49 child sitemaps
Info::
robots.txt references sitemap
robots.txt 200 OK
Size 4137 B Sitemaps referenced 1 User-agents Google-Extended, GPTBot, meta-externalagent, *, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, Amazonbot, ClaudeBot, CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler Blocking No — crawling allowed
# As a condition of accessing this website, you agree to abide by the following
# content signals:

# (a)  If a Content-Signal = yes, you may collect content for the corresponding
#      use.
# (b)  If a Content-Signal = no, you may not collect content for the
#      corresponding use.
# (c)  If the website operator does not include a Content-Signal for a
#      corresponding use, the website operator neither grants nor restricts
#      permission via Content-Signal with respect to the corresponding use.

# The content signals and their meanings are:

# search:   building a search index and providing search results (e.g., returning
#           hyperlinks and short excerpts from your website's contents). Search does not
#           include providing AI-generated search summaries.
# ai-input: inputting content into one or more AI models (e.g., retrieval
#           augmented generation, grounding, or other real-time taking of content for
#           generative AI search answers).
# ai-train: training or fine-tuning AI models.

# ANY RESTRICTIONS EXPRESSED VIA CONTENT SIGNALS ARE EXPRESS RESERVATIONS OF
# RIGHTS UNDER ARTICLE 4 OF THE EUROPEAN UNION DIRECTIVE 2019/790 ON COPYRIGHT
# AND RELATED RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET.

# BEGIN Cloudflare Managed content

User-agent: *
Content-Signal: search=yes,ai-train=no
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

# END Cloudflare Managed Content

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

# Custom additions for default robots.txt

Disallow: /search
Disallow: /newsletter/subscribe
Disallow: /newsletter/unsubscribe
Disallow: /registersubscriber
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/
Disallow: /gi-growthbook/
Disallow: /async-load/
Disallow: /cart
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /add-to-cart/
Disallow: /darkmode
Disallow: /newsletter

Sitemap: https://gameinformer.com/sitemap.xml

sitemap.xml 200 OK
Type Sitemap Index URLs 49 entries Valid XML Yes
Child Sitemaps:
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 301-redirects to HTTPS

www / non-www

301https://www.gameinformer.com/
200https://gameinformer.com/

Preferred variant: non-www

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://gameinformer.com/ https://gameinformer.com/

Consistent

A+
HTTP Probe Timing
Total 55 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown
PASS
DNS Lookup DNS Lookup — time to resolve the domain name to an IP address.
7 ms
TCP Connect TCP Connect — time to establish a TCP connection to the server.
4 ms
TLS Handshake TLS Handshake — time to complete the HTTPS encryption handshake.
11 ms
Time to First Byte Time to First Byte — how long the server takes to respond with the first byte of data.
55 ms
Total Time Total request time from DNS lookup through full response.
56 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 7 ms TCP Connect 4 ms TLS Handshake 11 ms Server Processing 33 ms Content Transfer 1 ms
A+
CDN & Delivery
Cloudflare (HIT)
PASS
Cloudflare (HIT)
Info::
Site is served via Cloudflare CDN (edge: SJC)
Got: cf-ray: 9f076939afc5cf25-SJC
Info::
CDN cache status: HIT
CDN Detected: Cloudflare
Provider Cloudflare Cache Status HIT Evidence cf-ray: 9f076939afc5cf25-SJC
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