theroot.com

.com crawl

First seen 2026-04-13 · Last seen 2026-05-18 · ok HTTP/1.1 200 2914 ms crawled 2026-05-07

US · 172.66.166.130 · AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.

Reputation 94/100 dmarc monitor-only

Classifying

HTML metadata

Title

The Root – Black News, Opinions, Politics and Culture

Language

en-US

Canonical

https://www.theroot.com

Feeds

The Root » Feed RSS
The Root » Comments Feed RSS

Technology

Server: nginx
CMS: WordPress

Analytics

Google Tag Manager

Ads

Amazon Ads

Fonts

Google Fonts

Third-party hosts loaded (10)

cdnjs.cloudflare.com×6
client.aps.amazon-adsystem.com×3
config.aps.amazon-adsystem.com×3
vjs.zencdn.net×3
c.amazon-adsystem.com×2
fonts.googleapis.com×2
imasdk.googleapis.com×2
www.googletagmanager.com×2
aax.amazon-adsystem.com×1
sb.scorecardresearch.com×1

Social

Contact

Email

advertising@theroot.com

Registration

Registrar

GoDaddy.com, LLC

Created

1999-05-08

Expires

2028-05-08 719 days left

Updated

2026-05-04

Name servers

rob.ns.cloudflare.com
teresa.ns.cloudflare.com

DNS records live

NS

rob.ns.cloudflare.com
teresa.ns.cloudflare.com

MX

1 aspmx.l.google.com
10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com
10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com
5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com

TXT

Show 10 TXT records

google-site-verification=G4e9iHf2g-i4WjPfwDWoloYQE9o68KE6Ov6YQqoBYvA
google-site-verification=TrMvW8cBVA_1TN5VCttX-SaZaEN9YgmQ1FpzIZhAKKE
google-site-verification=ceTJ4TKlGQkqt32Mh1EUOCA68eCl6KJJU5o_lHeYSGU
google-site-verification=i16q6gN4CrBOq0MjU2s_nKehpZbgWigA-Mtqs0qom74
google-site-verification=j2wzZ9UGqp5Mb89AT0ExTEkKCMAt-gpzbtR_YR27Jlo
google-site-verification=zEW8kWGYt_mW40849PXp6pOTLYWpPYFlS2CTDKOclqk
GtRy8bZjf/s5PE+ETC8dACTa9IbxS/WlpendmTDGdV0clhnVKMLx6ULDBvKxJmSXE6BJzc4GS/nMQLbKbQqBAw==
MS=ms24883745
_globalsign-domain-verification=63GY7DdhmEwU6Yc6mPqIRV6Tlu3atl9B6izj643Qy2
_globalsign-domain-verification=OYfE_CcZQWFlEEOrR5yVCfCtmiQrm0bBdyUAJyg3qE

Email authentication strong

SPF

v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all

softfail (~all)

DMARC

v=DMARC1; p=none;

policy: none (monitoring only)

DKIM

google: v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAyGrBrnzvLOqkYakPOcLClnENUnF3i3lyaH0NXEdP70zYhVeeggk7VZFd2WSx1Mt/Fh7nXKqtM1zbLS…
k1: k=rsa; p=MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQDbNrX2cY/GUKIFx2G/1I00ftdAj713WP9AQ1xir85i89sA2guU0ta4UX1Xzm06XIU6iBP41VwmPwBGRNofhBVR+e6WHUo…
k2: v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAv2aC2KjGKLOwTweBY5A9RpjsxaBXR9r7OAU6U8/zn92ivImI75naUujWbItRI/QmL1jy5PWGqLwoUA…

selectors probed

Certificate (current)

WE1

from 2026-03-12 to 2026-06-10

Expires in 22 days

Full certificate history on crt.sh ↗

HTTP security headers

Header hygiene 95/100 Checked live page: https://www.theroot.com/

present

strict-transport-security
content-security-policy
x-frame-options
x-content-type-options
referrer-policy

findings

missing Permissions Policy

Header values

referrer-policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-options: nosniff
content-security-policy: frame-ancestors 'self' ; upgrade-insecure-requests;
strict-transport-security: max-age=63072000;