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wakanow.com — domain analysis

wakanow.com describes itself as "Book cheap flights, hotels and holiday packages with Wakanow — Africa". It is built on Angular, registered in 2008, served from San Mateo, United States. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 0 of 6 common security headers.

200HTTP status
464msResponse time
1,771Words on the homepage
0/6Security headers set

What is wakanow.com about?

The words appearing most often on the homepage, excluding common filler, are
a rough indication of subject matter rather than a description of the business:

  • flight ×36
  • booking ×31
  • travel ×26
  • wakanow ×25
  • flights ×23
  • hotels ×18
  • best ×18
  • book ×17
  • nigeria ×13
  • deals ×12

Does wakanow.com publish the usual trust pages?

All four of the pages a established business normally publishes were found:
about, contact, privacy and terms.

These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.

How does wakanow.com compare with other domains analysed here?

Measured against the 77 domains in this index. This is a
small, self-selected sample — the domains people happened to look up — not a
representative sample of the web.

Response time Faster than 71% of them
(median 662ms)
Security headers More than 0% of them
Domain age Older than 67% of them

Related domains in this index

Other analysed domains served from the same country:

When was wakanow.com registered?

wakanow.com was registered on 3 March 2008, which makes it about 18 years old.

A registration this old means the domain has been renewed repeatedly, which costs money every year and is not something abandoned or disposable projects tend to do.

The registrar of record is Hostopia Canada Corp.

Registration runs until 3 March 2031.

The domain carries 1 registry lock, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.

Registered 3 March 2008
Expires 3 March 2031
Registrar Hostopia Canada Corp
Registry status client transfer prohibited

Where is wakanow.com hosted?

The first address resolves to infrastructure in San Mateo, United States.

The network is operated by Incapsula Inc (AS19551 Incapsula Inc).

Hosting location describes where the responding server sits, not where the business is. A CDN will report its nearest edge rather than the origin.

What is wakanow.com running on?

wakanow.com exposes 2 identifiable technologies: Angular, X-Powered-By: Express.

  • Angular
  • X-Powered-By: Express

How does the homepage respond?

The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.

At 464ms to first byte this response is unremarkable for a homepage measured from a single European location.

The HTML weighs 171KB, which is ordinary for a homepage.

No compression is applied to the HTML. Enabling gzip or brotli usually cuts transfer size by around two thirds at no cost to the server.

Server header not disclosed
Compression none
Page size 174,992 bytes
Declared language en
Mobile viewport declared

What does the homepage say about itself?

The title runs to 72 characters, so search results will truncate it and the end of the sentence will not be read.

A meta description of 69 characters is present.

There are 2 H1 headings. One is conventional; several dilute the signal about what the page is primarily about.

All 23 images on the homepage have alt attributes.

Title Wakanow – Cheap Flights, Hotels & Holiday Packages | Book & Pay in Naira (72 chars)
Meta description Book cheap flights, hotels and holiday packages with Wakanow — Africa (69 chars)
H1 One shop, Multiple deals (2 on the page)
Canonical https://wakanow.com/
Open Graph title Wakanow – Cheap Flights, Hotels & Holiday Packages | Book & Pay in Naira
Headings / images 14 H2s, 23 images (0 without alt text)

Is wakanow.com served over a valid certificate?

The HTTPS certificate is issued by DigiCert Inc and is
valid until 2027-01-18, which is 105 days from the date of this check. It covers
2 hostnames.

  • *.wakanow.com
  • wakanow.com

The certificate has 105 days left to run.

It covers 2 hostnames, so it was issued for this site specifically.

Which security headers does it set?

None of the 6 headers checked are set. That is the default state of most servers rather than evidence of a problem, but it means the browser is given no instructions it could otherwise act on.

Without HSTS, a browser that has never visited before will try HTTP first, which is the window a network attacker needs.

With no Content Security Policy, any script that reaches the page — including one injected through a compromised third-party dependency — runs with full access to it.

Header Set Value
HSTS no —
Content Security Policy no —
X-Content-Type-Options no —
X-Frame-Options no —
Referrer-Policy no —
Permissions-Policy no —

How is DNS configured for wakanow.com?

IP addresses 45.60.99.180, 107.154.75.180
Reverse DNS 45.60.99.180, 107.154.75.180.ip.incapdns.net
Name servers dns2.easydns.net, dns1.easydns.com, dns3.easydns.org
Mail (MX) alt1.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 5), alt3.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 10), aspmx.l.google.com (pri 1), alt2.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 5), alt4.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 10)
SPF v=spf1 ip4:35.190.247.0/24 ip4:64.233.160.0/19 ip4:66.102.0.0/20 ip4:66.249.80.0/20 ip4:72.14.192.0/18 ip4:74.125.0.0/16 ip4:108.177.8.0/21 ip4:173.194.0.0/16 ip4:209.85.128.0/17 ip4:216.58.192.0/19 ip4:216.239.32.0/19 ip6:2001:4860:4000::/36 ip6:2404:6800:4000::/36 ip6:2607:f8b0:4000::/36 ip6:2800:3f0:4000::/36 ip6:2a00:1450:4000::/36 ip6:2c0f:fb50:4000::/36 ip4:172.217.0.0/19 ip4:172.217.32.0/20 ip4:172.217.128.0/19 ip4:172.217.160.0/20 ip4:172.217.192.0/19 ip4:172.253.56.0/21 ip4:172.253.112.0/20 ip4:108.177.96.0/19 ip4:35.191.0.0/16 ip4:130.211.0.0/22 ip4:206.165.240.0/21 ip4:97.107.16.0/20 ip4:62.173.41.147 ip4:41.75.92.218/29 ip4:155.93.127.172/32 ip4:208.117.55.132/32 ip4:202.162.250.0/24 ip4:167.89.0.0/17 ip4:208.117.48.0/20 ip4:50.31.32.0/19 ip4:198.37.144.0/20 ip4:198.21.0.0/21 ip4:192.254.112.0/20 ip4:168.245.0.0/17 ip4:149.72.0.0/16 ip4:159.183.0.0/16 ip4:223.165.113.0/24 ip4:223.165.115.0/24 ip4:223.165.118.0/23 ip4:223.165.120.0/23 exists:%{ir}._spf.netcorecloud.net ip4:136.143.188.0/24 ip4:135.84.80.0/24 ip4:135.84.82.0/24 ip4:117.20.43.11/32 ip4:199.67.64.0/24 ip4:136.143.184.0/24 exists:%{i}._spf.mta.salesforce.com ip4:82.150.225.79 ip4:171.17.133.140 ip4:171.17.133.100 ip4:171.17.131.35 ip4:170.251.118.211 ip4:167.89.0.0/17 ip4:208.117.48.0/20 ip4:50.31.32.0/19 ip4:198.37.144.0/20 ip4:198.21.0.0/21 ip4:192.254.112.0/20 ip4:168.245.0.0/17 ip4:149.72.0.0/16 ip4:159.183.0.0/16 ip4:223.165.113.0/24 ip4:223.165.115.0/24 ip4:223.165.118.0/23 ip4:223.165.120.0/23 ip4:34.198.193.174 ip4:34.202.174.188 ip4:34.199.167.230 ip4:52.203.5.138 ip4:3.91.171.64/28 ip4:3.219.176.96/29 ip4:3.222.0.112/29 ip4:3.222.0.24/29 ip4:3.222.0.88/29 ip4:3.235.255.160/29 ip4:3.238.137.128/30 ip4:44.192.35.0/24 ip4:18.235.53.110 ip4:54.159.173.91 ip4:35.158.71.15 ip4:35.158.67.243 ip4:3.120.181.192/28 ip4:18.192.72.40/30 ip4:3.72.201.96/29 ip4:3.120.181.204/30 ip4:18.156.147.178 ip4:18.158.161.97 ip4:3.64.95.16/29 ip4:3.65.246.112/29 ip4:3.72.33.56/29 ip4:13.127.153.86 ip4:52.66.154.99 ip4:13.127.210.61 ip4:3.7.25.40/29 ip4:3.7.196.96 ip4:3.7.127.96 ip4:65.0.37.204/30 ip4:43.204.166.128/29 ip4:65.1.103.160/29 ip4:65.2.2.76/30 ip4:3.25.47.0/29 ip4:52.62.151.40 ip4:13.237.4.248 ip4:13.211.56.237 ip4:3.26.58.204/30 ip4:54.252.22.127 ip4:54.206.207.130 ip4:3.26.82.216/29 ip4:3.26.88.88/29 ip4:3.26.88.244/30 -all
TXT records 23

wakanow.com resolves to 2 addresses, which indicates load balancing or a CDN rather than a single origin server.

Mail is handled by 5 exchangers.

An SPF record is published, giving receiving servers a rule for which hosts may send as this domain.

Reverse DNS resolves to 45.60.99.180, 107.154.75.180.ip.incapdns.net, which usually names the hosting provider.

Who runs DNS and mail for wakanow.com?

Mail is handled by Google Workspace.

No AAAA records are published, so the site is reachable over IPv4 only.

What else is worth noting about wakanow.com?

1 email address appears in the homepage markup, where address-harvesting crawlers will find it.

The server discloses software detail in x-powered-by, which tells an attacker what to target without them having to probe for it.

Can wakanow.com be spoofed in email?

DMARC is published with p=none, which monitors but does not act. Forged mail is still delivered; the owner just gets reports about it.

CAA records restrict certificate issuance to 4 named authorities (issuewild globalsign.com, issue globalsign.com, issue digicert.com, issuewild digicert.com), so no other CA should be able to issue for this domain.

The zone is not DNSSEC-signed. That is still the norm for most domains, but it means DNS answers cannot be cryptographically verified.

What does robots.txt allow?

robots.txt is 153 bytes and names
1 user-agent group.

It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.

Sitemaps declared:

  • https://wakanow.com/sitemap.xml

AI crawler policy

robots.txt names no AI crawlers specifically, so they fall under whatever rule
applies to User-agent: *.

What structured data does the homepage publish?

  • TravelAgency
  • PostalAddress
  • WebSite
  • SearchAction

The homepage publishes 4 structured data types: TravelAgency, PostalAddress, WebSite, SearchAction.

What does wakanow.com load from third parties?

The homepage pulls resources from 2 third-party hosts (fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.

5 cookies are set before any interaction (TiPMix, x-ms-routing-name, visid_incap_1050140, nlbi_1050140, incap_ses_612_1050140). 3 lack the Secure flag.

1 resource is referenced over plain HTTP on an HTTPS page, which browsers block or flag as mixed content.

The page links or refers to X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.

Cookie Secure HttpOnly SameSite
TiPMix yes yes none
x-ms-routing-name yes yes none
visid_incap_1050140 no yes none/unset
nlbi_1050140 no yes none/unset
incap_ses_612_1050140 no no none/unset

Does wakanow.com settle on one address?

Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, so visitors who type the bare address still land on the secure version.

Both wakanow.com and www.wakanow.com answer with 200 and neither redirects to the other. Search engines therefore see two complete copies of the site, and link equity is split between them unless a canonical tag resolves it.

How easily can wakanow.com be crawled?

A sitemap is served at https://wakanow.com/sitemap.xml listing 8 entries.

A deliberately invalid URL returns HTTP 200 rather than 404. That is a soft 404: every mistyped or stale link becomes an indexable page, which inflates the site with duplicates.

What tracking does wakanow.com run?

No analytics or advertising trackers were detected on the homepage of wakanow.com, which is unusual for a commercial site.

How does wakanow.com look when shared?

All five social preview tags are present, so links shared to social platforms and chat apps will render with a title, description and image.

How are images, fonts and scripts handled?

23 images on the homepage, 21 of them lazy-loaded (91%).

Modern image formats are in use (2 WebP/AVIF references).

No srcset attributes are used, so every device is served the same image size regardless of screen.

Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which means every page view also contacts Google. Self-hosting removes that dependency.

The page pulls 2 external stylesheets and 4 external scripts, with 1 carrying defer or async.

Is wakanow.com accessible and current?

The page uses 5 landmark elements and 81 ARIA attributes.

No skip-to-content link was found, which keyboard users rely on to bypass navigation.

Can search engines index wakanow.com?

Nothing on the homepage prevents indexing: no noindex is set in the robots meta tag or the X-Robots-Tag header.

The homepage carries 34 internal and 11 external links across 8 outside hosts.

Visible text makes up 6.7% of the HTML.

The heading outline skips 1 level, which breaks the document structure screen readers navigate by.

How is wakanow.com delivered?

The HTML is served with Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000.

Frequently asked questions

Does wakanow.com set the usual HTTP security headers?

It sets 0 of 6. The ones not present are: HSTS, Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.

Does wakanow.com allow AI crawlers?

robots.txt names no AI crawler specifically, so they fall under the wildcard rule, which does not disallow them.

What is wakanow.com built with?

The homepage exposes these fingerprints: Angular, X-Powered-By: Express. A site behind a CDN or rendered server-side may use more than it reveals.

Where does this data come from?

Every figure was measured by our own server on 5 October 2026: DNS lookups, one HTTPS request to the homepage, a TLS handshake and a request for robots.txt. No third-party SEO API is involved.

Is any of this traffic or authority data?

No. Traffic, authority and ranking figures cannot be measured by inspecting a domain, only modelled. Everything here is a direct observation.

I own wakanow.com and want this page removed.

Ask through the contact page on this site, from an address at the domain, and the report will be taken down. It only ever shows what the domain already serves publicly.

Analysed 5 October 2026.
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