afrinic.net

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Standard signals observed

This reflects observed technical signals, not a judgment of the website's intent or safety. Wondering if Afrinic is legit? Below you'll find technical signals for afrinic.net including domain age, HTTPS security, DNS records, and redirect behavior to help you decide if this website is trustworthy.

Observed signals
Domain registered 26 years ago
Valid HTTPS certificate
DNS records present
No redirects
AI Summary Plain-language explanation of the signals

The domain afrinic.net hosts an active website with a consistent HTTPS presence, enforced by a valid wildcard TLS certificate issued by DigiCert Inc. It is served from the IP address 196.216.3.4, with authoritative nameservers ns1.afrinic.net and ns2.afrinic.net. Registered through Gandi SAS, the domain has been active for 26 years and is set to expire on April 14, 2026. There are no redirects configured at this domain. These signals describe technical characteristics only and do not indicate intent or safety.

HTTP Response
HTTPS

The HTTP request timed out, but the TLS certificate is valid. This site may be blocking automated requests or experiencing slow response times.

TLS Certificate
Valid
Yes
Covers Domain
Yes
Type
Wildcard

Expires in 61 days

Certificate details

Subject: /CN=*.afrinic.net

Issuer: /C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/OU=www.digicert.com/CN=GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1

Chain: 3 certificates

Subject Alt Names (2)
*.afrinic.net
afrinic.net matches
DNS Records
A Records
1
AAAA
1
NS
6
IP addresses & nameservers

A: 196.216.3.4

AAAA: 2001:42d0:0:250::4

NS: ns1.afrinic.net, ns2.afrinic.net, ns3.afrinic.net, ns4.apnic.net, rirns.arin.net, afrinic.authdns.ripe.net

MX records (3)
mx1.afrinic.net
mx2.afrinic.net
mx3.afrinic.net
TXT records (3)
atlassian-sending-domain-verification=7c09bd38-3020-44f6-...
atlassian-domain-verification=GCYmOE/bJLQaQGia0/CWZcUrciZ...
v=spf1 mx a ip4:196.216.2.0/23 ip4:196.192.112.0/23 ip4:1...
Domain Registration
26 years old
Registered Apr 14, 1999
Registrar Gandi SAS
Expires Apr 14, 2028
More details

Last changed: Feb 24, 2026

Status: client delete prohibited client transfer prohibited

Nameservers: AFRINIC.AUTHDNS.RIPE.NET, NS1.AFRINIC.NET, ...

Robots.txt (Crawl directives)
Status
200 OK
Crawl Access
Allowed (with restrictions)

These directives apply to crawlers requesting this host.

Agents
3
Rules
18
Sitemaps
0
Directive breakdown
Disallow 18
Allow 0
Raw content
41 lines View full file 
# If the Joomla site is installed within a folder 
# eg www.example.com/joomla/ then the robots.txt file 
# MUST be moved to the site root 
# eg www.example.com/robots.txt
# AND the joomla folder name MUST be prefixed to all of the
# paths. 
# eg the Disallow rule for the /administrator/ folder MUST 
# be changed to read 
# Disallow: /joomla/administrator/
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html
#
# For syntax checking, see:
# http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /cli/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /components/content/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /layouts/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /logs/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/whois


User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
Disallow: /

Robots.txt directives are advisory instructions for crawlers and do not enforce access control.

Tech Stack
Platform
Joomla (medium)
JS Framework
jQuery
Server
Apache
CDN
Not detected
Analytics
2
Security Headers
3 / 6
Apache jQuery Google Analytics Google Tag Manager
HSTS X-Frame-Options X-Content-Type-Options
Detection evidence
HSTS:
strict-transport-security header present
Apache:
server header: 'Apache'
Joomla:
Joomla CMS detected
jQuery:
jQuery library referenced in page
X-Frame-Options:
x-frame-options header present
Google Analytics:
Google Analytics script loaded
Google Tag Manager:
Google Tag Manager container found
X-Content-Type-Options:
x-content-type-options header present

Technologies detected from HTTP headers and HTML patterns. Detection is passive and may not capture all technologies.

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