medium.com

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Standard signals observed

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

Observed signals
Domain registered 27 years ago
Valid HTTPS certificate
DNS hosted via Cloudflare (based on nameservers)
1 redirect observed
HSTS preloaded (browser-enforced)
Blocked by Cloudflare bot protection
AI Summary Plain-language explanation of the signals

The domain medium.com serves as an active website with DNS hosted via Cloudflare (inferred from nameservers). It has been registered for 27 years through Amazon Registrar, Inc. and its registration is valid until May 26, 2026. The site enforces HTTPS with a valid wildcard certificate issued by Google Trust Services, expiring in February 2026. There is a single redirect from HTTP to HTTPS, ensuring secure connections. These signals describe technical characteristics only and do not indicate intent or safety.

HTTP Response
HTTPS 1 redirect

Final URL:

https://medium.com/
Redirect chain
301 http://medium.com/ https://medium.com/
403 https://medium.com/
TLS Certificate
Valid
Yes
Covers Domain
Yes
Type
Wildcard

Expires in 72 days

Certificate details

Subject: /CN=medium.com

Issuer: /C=US/O=Google Trust Services/CN=WE1

Chain: 3 certificates

Subject Alt Names (2)
medium.com matches
*.medium.com
DNS Records
Cloudflare (inferred)

Based on nameserver patterns, DNS appears to be hosted via Cloudflare, a widely-used DNS and CDN provider.

A Records
2
AAAA
2
NS
2
IP addresses & nameservers

A: 162.159.153.4, 162.159.152.4

AAAA: 2606:4700:7::a29f:9904, 2606:4700:7::a29f:9804

NS: alina.ns.cloudflare.com, kip.ns.cloudflare.com

MX records (5)
aspmx.l.google.com
alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
aspmx2.googlemail.com
aspmx3.googlemail.com
TXT records (13)
07ecf60c9da442a9b3bcce99190ff60a
Domain Verification for Digicert (10/05/2022)y7ncgbyk39tw...
anthropic-domain-verification-p32bnn=TlzaDtedEYyM5ccLdU8N...
apple-domain-verification=Ls6JkesM8aOd8xyQ
dropbox-domain-verification=d7wsnlvbz6l3

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Domain Registration
27 years old
Registered May 27, 1998
Registrar Amazon Registrar, Inc.
Expires May 26, 2026
More details

Last changed: Apr 21, 2025

Status: client delete prohibited client transfer prohibited client update prohibited

Nameservers: ALINA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, KIP.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM

Robots.txt (Crawl directives)

Status: 403 Forbidden

URL: https://medium.com/robots.txt

Redirects: 1

Tech Stack

Could not detect technologies for this domain.