Infrastructure - https://unhcr.org BeaverCheck Audit

D

CDN & Delivery

Action

No CDN detected

FIX

No CDN detected

A CDN can significantly improve load times for users around the world by caching content at edge nodes closer to them.

No CDN detected

Consider using a CDN to improve global delivery speed and reduce origin load.

C

IPv6 Readiness

Action

No IPv6 support

REVIEW

No IPv6 support

No IPv6 (AAAA) records found

IPv6 support is increasingly important for global accessibility. About 40% of internet users have IPv6 connectivity.

No IPv6 Support

About 40% of internet users have IPv6. Consider adding AAAA records.

IPv6 support is increasingly important for global accessibility. About 40% of internet users have IPv6 connectivity.

Why this matters

No AAAA records — same impact as 'no IPv6 (AAAA) records'; IPv6-preferring clients pay extra latency falling back to IPv4.

Source: Google IPv6 stats

B

URL Variants

www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS

REVIEW

www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS

Both www and non-www versions serve content

Got: Both variants return 200 Expected: One variant 301-redirects to the other

HTTP correctly 301-redirects to HTTPS

www / non-www

200https://www.unhcr.org/

200https://unhcr.org/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://unhcr.org/ → https://unhcr.org/

Consistent

B

TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations

230 days until leaf cert expires — 5 issues to address

REVIEW

Certificate validity

230

days left

0d 30d 60d 90d+

Recommended actions

Extend HSTS max-age to at least 31536000 (1 year) to meet the preload list criteria
Add includeSubDomains to the HSTS directive
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

A+

DNS Records

1 A records, 146 ms lookup

PASS

1 A records, 146 ms lookup

Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es)

Got: 146.247.14.139

Single A record — no DNS redundancy

Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.

No IPv6 (AAAA) records

4 nameserver(s) configured

Got: ns-1127.awsdns-12.org, ns-1747.awsdns-26.co.uk, ns-399.awsdns-49.com, ns-808.awsdns-37.net

1 mail exchanger(s) configured

CAA records not checked

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

SPF record present in TXT

DNS resolution time: 146 ms

Got: 146 ms

A	146.247.14.139
AAAA	—
CNAME	—
NS	ns-1127.awsdns-12.org, ns-1747.awsdns-26.co.uk, ns-399.awsdns-49.com, ns-808.awsdns-37.net
MX	0 unhcr-org.mail.protection.outlook.com
TXT	10uk8d4t2urs067ropvi3f9if7 1ga18e9b09nfva1ket93ocf5eq 1ucj2cgsak2cjn624l6ercqd34 2jm4ia4096630ets34ht4hphjg 4dPjn0bLvSs+K1Q8VUB00xdR09jgiB5+coOxz3Av9vqDDYIYHPjyKl9KLiCCeD02xwqfVw19LtQ/gcVD... 56a6jfdv8uj8vgbdcpm6q6ta2t 591eoor52joegqskl9ac184iqd 5ldmjdqajsmujvkh2pn3dmnna9 5t8fcmfgf2nc2ndqaqs2pvdfcf 6r5tu017613dlckumckcmppslm 7q26n5gt1iil944lrn5b538ccm 7quvv3ulr6hp9fm8v9klgdo9ic 8C45DD0D7ADAD0B822F8AA717D66EBF304B927D5D35853BF179477290EC5F306 8h8bhm0dhut6hn1l4do8fn85jh MS=3CE9D5FA6A0EB3B64A7A7A3F8D026EF18EA80952 MS=ms93905490 _0gmdzm2rkk79tfndu3iv60cchygnckn _dnsauth.myaccess-dev.unhcr.org _dnsauth.myaccess-uat.unhcr.org a7dcunjfitd8ede38ku6o1i6g9 adobe-idp-site-verification=7d6e72b86037ba3a0e7d79b1986fad2b187bae2a380323bb8d6c... aohrogun427792s5c58mk6je86 apple-domain-verification=oAuIpJ8KiR5u0qXf cloudflare_dashboard_sso=14a8e7b89aebd49281a6da7252cecaf7 cqs9igomf6gols09k269ala6c3 drskra4vvmjlekd4vecjn9b26p dt6emv4ipvnvvmv3noolv6o777 gimrcjfu91s3qfhkri8g0k58r6 gkr72a9g5k1j2qvt402o1pvv22 google-site-verification=Cu9vclmjJEuoA53z3jrHOfpL07qNsAy0M9E7RHtHTak google-site-verification=MLsLR2HAZQ9BMHTaAGabN7Y62_qNhrHX4F3N632MIUE google-site-verification=fuj-ss6cJlDblRKzVBEYiHWrr5FcUn0E5QcLlgnYzmo h1ebuk1ho0748gotufku0gegri have-i-been-pwned-verification=dweb_pogbv1gcwwat86z0xfgrqjtz iqtn0542llv1l0pnarfakldjpn jmuo6hks6m1jc14ib10fu6cvqc m6dakai5aejkaoglmlh8ig51vg nbr2vdjhevmlpon4evg9bi9r8v nmnjh3easc5kf8n9hf8349nfoq obq0s5bb5c2c2oikvc00p9lmh9 oov5v50a1qcrvt7ci174u15g0t p05bsp32i1jsuk7ak49t2tc2lt p7slq3lhhk6sorr15jbef35omn p7vokhtt91v4a88gaf5pdjjub pam3crcukirkh8menmdap3jaia pj3c7mlmlrije8a3o6jqsruuc3 q076hg9fj4oecp11db9te5iu4p q07ldgidc3ivbv8g6t6bffq1a2 qotb0uos5ks27pib4q6kkt62lt tatbs93i73ts43ab887dlcu62 teamviewer-sso-verification=56587a1763d8457ba2d7de6b280aeb19 tho1nrl5f4k0t5d2j7cqp0jgm4 tof76qe59gevgf5loernds4mfa un5tussjt0b597unbvu6lb84qd uuv0840lard4ggbvg4e2luvcab SPF v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all vh55kqcls4212vd9kbdceodu94 voqd3a130brp61q360kucod38l webexdomainverification.4C675B87D61AB136E053AB06FC0A3F65=15e740df-26f8-4339-b9d8...
CAA	Lookup not available with standard resolver

Resolved in 146 ms

Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.

Why this matters

Single A record means a single point of failure — if that IP goes down, your site is unreachable until DNS TTL expires.

Learn more ▾

Add multiple A records for round-robin failover, or use a managed DNS provider with health-checked failover (Route 53, Cloudflare, NS1). Short TTL (60-300s) lets clients recover faster on outages.

Source: SRE practice / DNS architecture

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

1 redirect(s), 451 ms total

PASS

1 redirect(s), 451 ms total

Single redirect

Got: https://unhcr.org → https://www.unhcr.org/ (301)

WWW normalization redirect

https://unhcr.org

388 ms · HTTP/1.0

301

https://www.unhcr.org/

64 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#	URL	Status	Time	Protocol	Server
1	https://unhcr.org	301	388 ms	HTTP/1.0	n/a
2	https://www.unhcr.org/	200	64 ms	HTTP/1.1	cloudflare

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

A+

Crawlability

robots.txt present, sitemap with 24 URLs

PASS

robots.txt present, sitemap with 24 URLs

robots.txt is present

Got: 5304 bytes

sitemap.xml is present

sitemap.xml is valid XML

sitemap.xml contains 24 entries

Sitemap index with 24 child sitemaps

robots.txt references sitemap

robots.txt 200 OK

Size 5304 B Sitemaps referenced 61 User-agents * Blocking No — crawling allowed

#
# 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
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /buscar
Disallow: /buscar/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /translation-not-found
# 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/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
# Oembed media
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# sites
Disallow: /fr-fr/en/
Disallow: /es-es/en/
Disallow: /mx/en/
Disallow: /de/en/
Disallow: /at/en/
Disallow: /ch/en/
Disallow: /br/en/

# search page
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /*/search
# pdf viewer
Disallow: /libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.html
Disallow: /*/libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.html
# sitemap
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.acnur.org/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/africa/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/asia/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/au/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.acnur.org/es-es/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/fr-fr/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/ie/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/in/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.acnur.org/mx/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/my/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/uk/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/us/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/europe/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/kr/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/hk/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/rw/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/ng/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/de/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/at/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/ch/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/af/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/ir/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/tr/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/ua/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/jp/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/lb/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/be/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/pk/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/id/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/pl/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/eg/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/gr/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/ph/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/ro/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/ru/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/th/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/ke/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/nl/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/it/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.acnur.org/br/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/bd/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/jo/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/kw/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/qa/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/sa/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/central-asia/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/cn/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/iq/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/sy/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/bg/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/cy/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/md/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/rs/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/hu/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/am/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/by/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/sk/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/nordic-and-baltic/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/il/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.unhcr.org/co/sitemap.xml

sitemap.xml 200 OK

Type Sitemap Index URLs 24 entries Valid XML Yes

Child Sitemaps:

A+

Domain Intelligence

unhcr.org — via Amazon Registrar, Inc., 29 years, 4 months old, hosted on AS8659, CH

PASS

unhcr.org — via Amazon Registrar, Inc., 29 years, 4 months old, hosted on AS8659, CH

Domain registered until May 5, 2027 (1 years remaining)

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.

Registrar: Amazon Registrar, Inc.

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.

Hosting: AS8659, CH

Got: AS8659

Domain expiry

293 days

May 5, 2027

SSL certificate

230 days

Issued by Sectigo Limited

Domain age

29 years, 4 months

Registered May 4, 1997

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

AS8659, CH

ASN AS8659

146.247.14.139

Registrar

Amazon Registrar, Inc.

Unlocked 4 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 Amazon Registrar, Inc.

Created May 4, 1997 (29 years, 4 months ago)

Expires May 5, 2027 (1 years)

Last Updated April 5, 2026

Name Servers ns-1127.awsdns-12.org, ns-1747.awsdns-26.co.uk, ns-399.awsdns-49.com, ns-808.awsdns-37.net

DNSSEC Not enabled

Hosting

IP Address 146.247.14.139

ASN AS8659 (AS8659, CH)

Provider AS8659, CH

Data source: rdap (0.3s)

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+

HTTP Probe Timing

Total 387 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown

PASS

DNS Lookup

31 ms

TCP Connect

88 ms

TLS Handshake

179 ms

Time to First Byte

387 ms

Total Time

387 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 31 ms TCP Connect 88 ms TLS Handshake 179 ms Server Processing 88 ms Content Transfer 0 ms