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cosmopolitan.com

Category: Society, Lifestyle

Scanned: Jun 22, 2026, 03:16 AM UTC · First seen: Jun 22, 2026 · Threat Engines: 0 / 91 · Times Scanned: 1
90 / 100 Trust Score Based on scan findings at the time of analysis
No Threats Found
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Screenshot of cosmopolitan.com Captured Jun 22, 2026
https://cosmopolitan.com
Screenshot of cosmopolitan.com
28 years
Very Popular - #3,158 Tranco rank (>10M monthly visitors)
Not listed (91 checked)
✓ Valid (TLS)
Fastly, Inc.
Montreal, Canada
Unknown
Next.js
151.101.128.155
Domain & WHOIS Information
Registrar CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
Registered July 21, 1997
Expires July 20, 2026
Name Servers ns-460.awsdns-57.com
DNSSEC Unsigned
Hosting Fastly, Inc.
Reputation & Threat Check 91 security engines checked
File Scan Summary Powered by Quttera Engine
5 files scanned
No threats
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Low Risk
0
Medium Risk
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High Risk
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No threats Low Risk Medium Risk High Risk
www.cosmopolitan.com/aquarius-zodiac 477.0 KB Flagged: high risk
www.cosmopolitan.com/capricorn-zodiac 437.1 KB Flagged: high risk
www.cosmopolitan.com/aries-zodiac 467.0 KB Flagged: high risk
www.cosmopolitan.com/?page=2 557.9 KB Flagged: high risk
www.cosmopolitan.com.http-redirect 92 B No threats
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External Links & Domains
402
External Links
All Clean
0
Iframes
Clean
29
Referenced Domains
1 Flagged
1
Flagged Resources
Detected

Detailed link, domain and iframe URLs from this site are not shown here - some of the strings contain content that isn't appropriate for general-audience display. The counts above reflect the full scan.

cosmopolitan.com Overview

Description of cosmopolitan.com

Cosmopolitan.com appears to be the website for Cosmopolitan, a long-established women's lifestyle and entertainment magazine. Based on the page title, visible navigation, and metadata, the site publishes articles focused on dating advice, relationships, celebrity news, beauty, fashion, astrology, and broader pop-culture topics.

The domain has been registered since 1997 and shows strong signs of being an established media property with substantial readership, including a high traffic ranking and professionally structured editorial sections. The site also appears to be connected to the Hearst publishing network through referenced domains and advertising infrastructure, which is consistent with a major digital magazine operation.

Safety Assessment for cosmopolitan.com

Scan results were broadly favorable at the time of this scan. The domain was not flagged by any of 91 security engines, and major threat-database checks did not indicate phishing, malware distribution, or blacklist-related issues. The site is also categorized by multiple web-classification providers as news, entertainment, and society/lifestyle content, which aligns with the visible homepage.

One malware scanner did report several article URLs and one related advertising domain with a generic suspicious-object label. However, this appears to be an isolated heuristic finding rather than a broadly corroborated threat signal, especially since other security engines reported no detections and the blacklist checks were clean. The domain is also nearly three decades old and has an established web presence, which modestly reduces the likelihood that a lone generic heuristic match reflects active malicious behavior.

Based on available data, no threats were detected at the time of this scan beyond a low-confidence heuristic alert from one scanner. Overall, the website appears to be a legitimate, established media publication, and no significant threats were detected at the time of this scan.

Technical Description

The site uses a valid SSL/TLS certificate issued by GlobalSign, with the certificate currently valid until late 2026. It is hosted on Fastly infrastructure and resolves to an IP address in Fastly's network, which is commonly used by large publishers for content delivery and performance. The domain uses AWS nameservers.

DNSSEC appears to be unsigned, which is not uncommon but means DNS responses do not benefit from DNSSEC validation. No major technical security concerns were evident from the provided scan data aside from the isolated heuristic flag on a related advertising subdomain.

HTTP Redirect Chain
301 https://cosmopolitan.com/
200 https://www.cosmopolitan.com/
Website Insights
#3,158
Tranco Rank
Very Popular
Visitors >10M/mo
Category: Society, Lifestyle
Rank History (30 days)
May 11 Jun 21
49 cookies detected
Essential43
Analytics3
Advertising3
Social0
47 1st party cookies
2 3rd party (trackers)
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