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dealnews.com — domain analysis

dealnews.com describes itself as "Today". It was registered in 1999, served from Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 1 of 6 common security headers, 1 tracking script.

200HTTP status
187msResponse time
362Words on the homepage
1/6Security headers set

What is dealnews.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:

  • deals ×10
  • clothing ×8
  • coupons ×7
  • home ×6
  • laptops ×5
  • accessories ×5
  • shoes ×4
  • watches ×4
  • store ×4
  • apple ×4

Does dealnews.com publish the usual trust pages?

Found: contact. Not found at the usual addresses:
about, privacy, terms.

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

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

Measured against the 13 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 62% of them
(median 601ms)
Security headers More than 55% of them
Domain age Older than 46% of them

Related domains in this index

Analysed domains sharing the same network (AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc.):

Sharing a network means sharing a host or CDN. It implies nothing about a
relationship between the sites themselves.

When was dealnews.com registered?

dealnews.com was registered on 20 January 1999, which makes it about 27 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 GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC.

Registration runs until 20 January 2027.

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

Registered 20 January 1999
Expires 20 January 2027
Registrar GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC
Registry status client transfer prohibited

Where is dealnews.com hosted?

The first address resolves to infrastructure in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

The network is operated by AWS CloudFront (GLOBAL) (AS16509 Amazon.com, 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 dealnews.com running on?

No platform, framework or analytics fingerprints were found in the homepage markup of dealnews.com. That usually means hand-written HTML, an uncommon stack, or a page assembled entirely at the edge.

No recognisable platform, framework or analytics fingerprints were found in the homepage markup.

How does the homepage respond?

The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.

At 187ms to first byte this response is fast for a homepage measured from a single European location.

The HTML alone is 3009KB before images, stylesheets or scripts are counted, which is heavy for a document that browsers must parse before anything renders.

The HTML is compressed with gzip.

Server header nginx/1.29.1
Compression gzip
Page size 3,080,767 bytes
Declared language en
Mobile viewport declared

What does the homepage say about itself?

The title is 45 characters, inside the range that displays without truncation.

A meta description of 5 characters is present.

No H1 heading was found, so the page offers no single top-level statement of what it is.

All 1 images on the homepage have alt attributes.

Title DealNews: Best Daily Deals, Discounts & Sales (45 chars)
Meta description Today (5 chars)
H1 — none — (0 on the page)
Canonical https://www.dealnews.com/
Open Graph title DealNews: Best Daily Deals, Discounts & Sales
Headings / images 0 H2s, 1 images (0 without alt text)

Is dealnews.com served over a valid certificate?

The HTTPS certificate is issued by Amazon and is
valid until 2027-02-20, which is 139 days from the date of this check. It covers
3 hostnames.

  • www.dealnews.com
  • blog.dealnews.com
  • dealnews.com

The certificate has 139 days left to run.

Which security headers does it set?

1 of 6 are set (X-Frame-Options). Absent: HSTS, Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.

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 yes SAMEORIGIN
Referrer-Policy no —
Permissions-Policy no —

How is DNS configured for dealnews.com?

IP addresses 18.172.112.109, 18.172.112.15, 18.172.112.35, 18.172.112.121
Reverse DNS server-18-172-112-109.fra60.r.cloudfront.net, server-18-172-112-15.fra60.r.cloudfront.net
Name servers ns-1932.awsdns-49.co.uk, ns-846.awsdns-41.net, ns-1113.awsdns-11.org, ns-18.awsdns-02.com
Mail (MX) alt2.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 5), aspmx.l.google.com (pri 1), alt3.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 10), alt4.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 10), mail.dealnews.com (pri 10), alt1.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 5)
SPF v=spf1 include:_s00034315.autospf.email -all
TXT records 14

dealnews.com resolves to 4 addresses, which indicates load balancing or a CDN rather than a single origin server.

Mail is handled by 6 exchangers.

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

Reverse DNS resolves to server-18-172-112-109.fra60.r.cloudfront.net, server-18-172-112-15.fra60.r.cloudfront.net, which usually names the hosting provider.

Who runs DNS and mail for dealnews.com?

DNS is operated by Amazon Route 53 rather than self-hosted name servers.

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 dealnews.com?

2 of 2 externally hosted scripts carry no subresource integrity hash. If one of those hosts were compromised, the replacement script would run with full access to the page.

Can dealnews.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.

No CAA records are published, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate 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 else does dealnews.com publish?

An ads.txt file is published with 957 entries, which means the site sells programmatic advertising and has declared who may resell its inventory.

An app-ads.txt file is also published, which indicates mobile app inventory alongside the website.

What does robots.txt allow?

robots.txt is 177 bytes and names
1 user-agent group.

It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.

Sitemaps declared:

  • https://www.dealnews.com/sitemap-index.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?

  • Organization
  • PostalAddress
  • ContactPoint
  • SoftwareApplication
  • AggregateRating
  • Offer
  • WebPage

The homepage publishes 7 structured data types: Organization, PostalAddress, ContactPoint, SoftwareApplication, AggregateRating, Offer, WebPage.

What does dealnews.com load from third parties?

The homepage pulls resources from 10 third-party hosts (771165115a83.edge.sdk.awswaf.com, a.pub.network, api.btloader.com, b.pub.network, btloader.com, c.dlnws.com). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.

2 cookies are set before any interaction (dnmexp, dnpers).

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

Cookie Secure HttpOnly SameSite
dnmexp yes no lax
dnpers yes no lax

Does dealnews.com settle on one address?

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

Both dealnews.com and www.dealnews.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 dealnews.com be crawled?

A sitemap index is served at https://www.dealnews.com/sitemap-index.xml listing 6 entries.

The most recent lastmod date is 2026-10-02.

A deliberately invalid URL correctly returns HTTP 404, so missing pages will not be indexed.

What tracking does dealnews.com run?

1 tracking script detected: Matomo.

No consent management platform was detected alongside them. Where GDPR or the ePrivacy Directive applies, analytics and advertising scripts generally need consent before they load.

How does dealnews.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?

1 image on the homepage, 0 of them lazy-loaded (0%).

Modern image formats are in use (1 WebP/AVIF references).

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

The page pulls 0 external stylesheets and 2 external scripts, with 3 carrying defer or async.

Responses carry Amazon CloudFront and edge cache edge headers, so content is served from a CDN rather than straight from the origin.

Is dealnews.com accessible and current?

The page uses 3 landmark elements and 7 ARIA attributes.

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

Can search engines index dealnews.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 159 internal and 0 external links across 0 outside hosts.

Visible text is only 0.4% of the HTML, which indicates the page is assembled in the browser rather than served as content.

How is dealnews.com delivered?

The HTML is served with Cache-Control: public, s-maxage=60, max-age=60, stale-while-revalidate=240, stale-if-error=3600.

HTTP/3 is advertised via alt-svc, so modern browsers will upgrade to QUIC after the first visit.

A web app manifest is declared, so the site is installable as a progressive web app.

The TLS certificate also covers 2 subdomains: www.dealnews.com, blog.dealnews.com.

  • www.dealnews.com
  • blog.dealnews.com

Frequently asked questions

Does dealnews.com set the usual HTTP security headers?

It sets 1 of 6. The ones not present are: HSTS, Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.

Does dealnews.com allow AI crawlers?

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

Where does this data come from?

Every figure was measured by our own server on 4 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 dealnews.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 4 October 2026.
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