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Automatic security check · Public OSINT only

Company website

https://www.rate.com/

75%

Trusted — verify

No major public red flags in this pass, but confirm reviews, ownership, and TLS details yourself. Passive OSINT only · inventKeys=false.

High concern
Elevated risk
Caution advised
Trusted — verify
Strong protections

rate.com security check

Name: rate.com security check — Trusted — verify | Company Forensics
Item: rate.com
Rating: 75
Author: Company Forensics

Public OSINT valuation for rate.com: grade B (75/100). Title signal “Apply for a mortgage, home equity loan or refinance | Rate”. 3 security headers present, 5 commonly expected headers missing. This is a defensive surface review — not a penetration test.

/100

Grade B

Company website · Services · Social

Company website

https://www.rate.com/

Services & products

Security and home savings Exclusive offerings and more https://www.rate.com/membership-benefits

Social & LinkedIn

No social or LinkedIn company links found on the scanned pages.

Links are extracted from public crawl HTML only. We never invent profiles or product pages.

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Trustpilot · Glassdoor

Trustpilot

—

Official Trustpilot signals only — never scraped. Shown when a public Business Unit profile exists (inventKeys=false).

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Glassdoor

—

No Glassdoor scrape. Search the official employer directory when no linked profile is present.

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Hosting · IP · map

IP104.18.119.2
ASN—
Hosting—
Geo—
PTR—
Nameservers—
MX—
SPF—

Map pending — IP geolocation not available (inventKeys=false).

Query
rate.comRequested hostname
IP
104.18.119.2Resolved A record
ASN
—Hosting org
Trace
ICMP traceroute off by policyPassive IP path only · inventKeys=false

Sources: DNS · MX/SPF/PTR · ipwho.is · OpenStreetMap · hosting-check · tool=vendor.hosting_check (passive only). Soft-fail if geo blocked · inventKeys=false.

Domain registration · business age

Domain age · domain-age-checker · vendor.domain_age

29 years, 4 months, 25 days

Veteran (10+ years)

RegistrarGoDaddy.com, LLC

Registered1997-06-18

Domain age29 years, 4 months, 25 days

Age bandVeteran (10+ years)

Registry / location.com registry (RDAP)

Public RDAP / WHOIS only · domain-age-checker · tool=vendor.domain_age. Soft-fail when WHOIS is blocked — we never invent registrar or age.

Website worth · free TLDs · age

Est. midpoint$160,987,500

Range$6,075,000 – $315,900,000

Confidencehigh

Traffic (est.)3,375,000 – 11,250,000 / mo

RPM$18–$78

MonetizationHigh

Adapted from olivernashivy/site-worth · tool=vendor.site_worth · indicative only · inventKeys=false.

Same-name free extensions

rate.io · available
rate.dev · available
rate.site · available
rate.cloud · available
rate.store · available

Checked 21 TLDs for “rate” · 8 registered · 1 unknown · DNS + RDAP only · tool=vendor.domain_scanner · inventKeys=false.

Highlights

Positive Highlights

SSL/TLS certificate validates (public handshake succeeded).
Final URL is served over HTTPS.
DNS resolves publicly (A/AAAA or equivalent).
TLS handshake OK (TLSv1.3).
HTTP Strict Transport Security is present.
Content-Security-Policy observed.
Set-Cookie includes Secure and HttpOnly flags.
DNS resolves publicly (A/AAAA).

Negative Highlights

Security header missing: x-frame-options.
Security header missing: referrer-policy.
Security header missing: permissions-policy.
Security header missing: cross-origin-opener-policy.

Derived from this scan’s findings, RDAP, TLS, and enrichment only · tools=vendor.site_worth,vendor.domain_age,vendor.hosting_check,vendor.domain_scanner · inventKeys=false.

Review Details

Company Evaluation

Registration data lists registrar “GoDaddy.com, LLC”. Treat WHOIS fields as public OSINT only — not a legal ownership certificate. Domain age from RDAP is about 29 year(s) (10730 days).

Webshop Evaluation

Heuristic site-worth model (inventKeys=false) estimates midpoint value around $160,987,500 with monetization potential “High”. This is not an appraisal.

Technical Evaluation

Transport looks healthy: TLSv1.3 with certificate from Google Trust Services. One or more browser security headers are missing on the final HTTPS response. That weakens clickjacking/XSS defenses even when the site is otherwise legitimate. Registrar on record: GoDaddy.com, LLC. No automated “low-trust registrar” claim is made without a verified feed.

How we scored rate.com

Positive signals

TLS handshake OK (TLSv1.3).
HTTP Strict Transport Security is present.
Content-Security-Policy observed.
Set-Cookie includes Secure and HttpOnly flags.
DNS resolves publicly (A/AAAA).
robots.txt is publicly available.
RDAP domain record available (rate.com).

Risk signals

No elevated risk signals recorded in this pass.

Findings

TLS handshake OK (TLSv1.3).
HTTP Strict Transport Security is present.
Content-Security-Policy observed.
Set-Cookie includes Secure and HttpOnly flags.
DNS resolves publicly (A/AAAA).
robots.txt is publicly available.
RDAP domain record available (rate.com).
Final HTTP status 200 at https://www.rate.com/.

Technical details

DNS

resolved

A: 104.18.119.2, 104.18.120.2
AAAA: —
PTR: —
error: —

TLS / certificate

version: TLSv1.3
cipher: TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
issuer: Google Trust Services
notAfter: Jan 14 20:11:02 2027 GMT
SAN sample: rate.com
error: —

HTTP & security headers

3 present

finalUrl: https://www.rate.com/
status: 200
server: cloudflare
x-powered-by: —
present: content-security-policy, strict-transport-security, x-content-type-options
missing: x-frame-options, referrer-policy, permissions-policy, cross-origin-opener-policy, cross-origin-resource-policy
cookie Secure: True
cookie HttpOnly: True

Tech fingerprint (public)

passive

title: Apply for a mortgage, home equity loan or refinance | Rate
generator: —
tech: React, Next.js, Cloudflare
script hosts: static.rate.com
description: Explore mortgage rates, home loan options & get personalized financing guidance. Rate.com helps you buy, refinance, use home equity & plan with confidence.

Company presence (crawl links)

extracted

companyWebsite: https://www.rate.com/
serviceLinks: Security and home savings Exclusive offerings and more: https://www.rate.com/membership-benefits
socialLinks: none found

RDAP / registration

rdap

domain: rate.com
registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
created: 1997-06-18T04:00:00Z
expires: 2034-06-17T04:00:00Z
nameservers: ns-1332.awsdns-38.org, ns-1822.awsdns-35.co.uk, ns-488.awsdns-61.com, ns-587.awsdns-09.net
status: client delete prohibited, client renew prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited
error: —

Public well-known

passive

/.well-known/security.txt: HTTP 404
/robots.txt: HTTP 200 · found
/security.txt: HTTP 404

Analyzed 2026-11-03T11:21:24Z CF passive OSINT (DNS/TLS/HTTP/RDAP/well-known) — no exploits More recent checks

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