politico.eu

Last analyzed: Mar 4, 2026 at 7:56 PM UTC Refreshing...

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Standard signals observed

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

Observed signals

Registration data not publicly available

Valid HTTPS certificate

DNS hosted via Cloudflare (based on nameservers)

1 redirect observed

Favicon detected

HSTS enabled

AI Summary Plain-language explanation of the signals

The domain politico.eu hosts an active website with DNS records and IP addresses managed via Cloudflare (inferred from nameservers). It enforces HTTPS, redirecting HTTP traffic to a secure connection, and presents a valid multi-domain TLS certificate issued by Google Trust Services, expiring in March 2026. The final accessible URL is https://www.politico.eu/. These signals describe technical characteristics only and do not indicate intent or safety.

HTTP Response

HTTPS 1 redirect

Final URL:

https://www.politico.eu/

Redirect chain

301 http://politico.eu/ → https://www.politico.eu/

200 https://www.politico.eu/

TLS Certificate

Valid

Yes

Covers Domain

Yes

Type

Multi-domain

Expires in 68 days

Certificate details

Subject: /CN=politico.eu

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

Chain: 3 certificates

Subject Alt Names (2)

politico.eu matches

dmp.politico.eu

DNS Records

Cloudflare (inferred)

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

A Records

AAAA

IP addresses & nameservers

A: 104.18.20.20, 104.18.21.20

AAAA: 2606:4700::6812:1414, 2606:4700::6812:1514

NS: cruz.ns.cloudflare.com, lars.ns.cloudflare.com

MX records (1)

mx01.politico.eu

TXT records (16)

MS=ms98950248

adobe-idp-site-verification=4f750abf8795bb604b0e0dd686732...

amazonses:31I00aKP49fgKVs8ak70VjzR1teZVI2ReKbfW+EtlLM=

amazonses:UmXWGxgDwhJGcRM00PIbVMgWNG787AxEgkPiAwJBcW8=

anthropic-domain-verification-dmxjq4=TYxP8a1JPRsfQ9FIV2Oo...

+ 11 more

Domain Registration

Could not retrieve domain registration information.

Robots.txt (Crawl directives)

Status

200 OK (1 redirect)

Crawl Access

Allowed (with restrictions)

Final URL: https://www.politico.eu/robots.txt

These directives apply to crawlers requesting this host.

Agents

Rules

101

Sitemaps

Directive breakdown

Disallow 100

Allow 1

Sitemaps 2

Sitemap URLs

https://www.politico.eu/news-sitemap.xml

https://www.politico.eu/sitemap.xml

Raw content

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User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://www.politico.eu/news-sitemap.xml

Sitemap: https://www.politico.eu/sitemap.xml
Disallow: /politico-header/
Disallow: /politico-footer/
Disallow: /*?=
Disallow: /*/registration*

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /sponsored-content
Disallow: /research-and-analysis
Disallow: /brand-event

User-agent: AddSearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
Disallow: /

User-agent: aiHitBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Andibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Awario
Disallow: /

User-agent: bedrockbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: bigsur.ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT Agent
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Cotoyogi
Disallow: /

User-agent: Crawlspace
Disallow: /

User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Devin
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Echobot Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: EchoboxBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Disallow: /

User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleAgent-Mariner
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther
... (truncated)

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

Tech Stack

Platform

WordPress (medium)

JS Framework

Not detected

Server

Hidden (CDN)

CDN

Cloudflare

Analytics

Security Headers

3 / 6

Cloudflare Google Tag Manager Facebook Pixel

HSTS X-Frame-Options X-Content-Type-Options

Detection evidence

HSTS:

strict-transport-security header present

WordPress:

WordPress content paths detected

Cloudflare:

cf-ray header present (IAD)

Facebook Pixel:

Facebook tracking pixel detected

X-Frame-Options:

x-frame-options header present

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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