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salon.com

Category: News & Media

Scanned: Jun 27, 2026, 04:18 AM UTC · First seen: Jun 27, 2026 · Threat Engines: 0 / 91 · Times Scanned: 1
89 / 100 Trust Score Based on scan findings at the time of analysis
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Screenshot of salon.com Captured Jun 27, 2026
https://salon.com
Screenshot of salon.com
31 years
Very Popular - #3,496 Tranco rank (>10M monthly visitors)
Not listed (91 checked)
✓ Valid (TLS)
AWS CloudFront (GLOBAL)
Paris, France
Apache
Unknown
13.227.231.59
Domain & WHOIS Information
Registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registered April 18, 1995
Expires January 6, 2033
Name Servers NS-1103.AWSDNS-09.ORG
DNSSEC Unsigned
Hosting AWS CloudFront (GLOBAL)
Reputation & Threat Check 91 security engines checked
File Scan Summary Powered by Quttera Engine
100 files scanned
No threats
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Low Risk
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No threats Low Risk Medium Risk High Risk
www.salon.com/app/themes/salon/favicon.ico 14.7 KB Flagged: high risk
www.salon.com/2026/06/21/america-abdicates-as-global-superpower-and-its-about-time/# 63.7 KB Flagged: high risk
www.salon.com/2026/06/26/how-oil-execs-shaped-a-landmark-climate-study/# 97.8 KB Flagged: high risk
www.salon.com/2026/06/23/hemingways-madrid-one-bite-at-a-time/# 56.4 KB Flagged: high risk
www.salon.com/2024/06/30/what-i-wish-id-known-about-bisexuality-and-the-truth-about-love/# 54.8 KB Flagged: high risk
www.salon.com/2024/08/25/the-wizard-of-oz-twisters-tornadoes/# 58.3 KB Flagged: high risk
www.salon.com/2024/01/20/my-unexpectedly-feminist-pilgrimage-walking-the-camino-de-santiago-and-the-freedom-i-found/# 63.6 KB Flagged: high risk
www.salon.com/2023/12/30/secrets-of-a-serial-addict-how-i-got-hooked-on-quitting-over-and-over-again/# 59.3 KB Flagged: high risk
www.salon.com/2023/12/16/navigating-the-new-sober-boom-where-a-persons-sobriety-is-as-unique-as-their-fingerprint/# 82.7 KB Flagged: high risk
www.salon.com/2023/08/26/my-parents-are-deadcan-i-afford-avocado-toast-now/# 54.4 KB Flagged: high risk
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www.salon.com/2026/06/02/best-vpn-services-for-2026/# 75.1 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.salon.com.http-redirect 78 B No threats
www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-MGRKVFC2 266 B No threats
www.salon.com/archive 135.8 KB No threats
www.salon.com/# 251.2 KB No threats
connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js 12.2 KB No threats
www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?render=6LckLQkrAAAAABD30EsnOQxmtgweb-aPZojeUU3v 1010 B No threats
www.dianomi.com/js/contextfeed.js 194.2 KB No threats
www.salon.com/about/policy 59.9 KB No threats
www.salon.com/about/contact 34.7 KB No threats
www.salon.com/about/dmca 37.7 KB No threats
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External Links & Domains
2350
External Links
3 Flagged
9
Iframes
Clean
322
Referenced Domains
4 Flagged
7
Flagged Resources
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emmanadler.comFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
go.expressvpn.comFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
go.nordvpn.netFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
papers.ssrn.comFlagged: Generic Malicious Object
https://go.expressvpn.com/c/1332911/1462856/16063Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://go.nordvpn.net/aff_c?offer_id%3D15&amp%3Baff_id%3D133100&amp%3Burl_id%3D902Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id%3D2261375Flagged: Generic Malicious Object
https://go.expressvpn.com/c/1332911/1462856/16063Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://go.nordvpn.net/aff_c?offer_id%3D15&amp%3Baff_id%3D133100&amp%3Burl_id%3D902Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id%3D2261375Flagged: Generic Malicious Object
http://documentcloud.org/documents/28303755-20031118-mottershead-email/Not flagged
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4064057Not flagged
http://moms.govNot flagged
http://salon.com/about/submissionsNot flagged
http://salon.com/linkNot flagged
http://salon.com/premiumNot flagged
http://salon.com/premium/Not flagged
http://salon.com/premium?utm_source%3Donsite&amp%3Butm_medium%3Dorganic&amp%3Butm_campaign%3Dgo-ad-free-footerNot flagged
http://salon.com/topic/authoritarianismNot flagged
http://salon.com/topic/benjamin-netanyahuNot flagged
http://salon.com/topic/democratsNot flagged
http://salon.com/topic/donald-trumpNot flagged
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emmanadler.comFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
go.expressvpn.comFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
go.nordvpn.netFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
papers.ssrn.comFlagged: Generic Malicious Object
19thnews.orgNot flagged
abcnews.comNot flagged
abcnews4.comNot flagged
accounts.google.comNot flagged
acpistachios.wpenginepowered.comNot flagged
adaa.orgNot flagged
ag.purdue.eduNot flagged
apnews.comNot flagged
archive.cdc.govNot flagged
archives.federalregister.govNot flagged
arstechnica.comNot flagged
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<iframe frameborder%3D"0" height%3D"1" data-src%3D"https://counter.theconversation.com/content/180782/count.gif" class%3D"lazy w-full" style%3D"width:1px%3Bheight:1px%3Bborder:0" width%3D"1">Not flagged
<iframe src%3D"https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id%3DGTM-MGRKVFC2" height%3D"0" width%3D"0" style%3D"display:none%3Bvisibility:hidden">Not flagged
<iframe style%3D"border: none%3B overflow: hidden%3B width: 80px%3B height: 20px%3B" allowtransparency%3D"true" frameborder%3D"0" scrolling%3D"no" data-src%3D"//www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsalon&amp%3Bwidth%3D320&amp%3Blayout%3Dbutton&amp%3Baction%3Dlike&amp%3Bshow_faces%3Dfalse&amp%3Bshare%3Dfalse&amp%3Bheight%3D35" class%3D"lazy w-full h-full">Not flagged
<iframe title%3D"How Tucker Carlson got so weird" width%3D"500" height%3D"281" data-src%3D"https://www.youtube.com/embed/SkfB_4kYByg?feature%3Doembed" class%3D"lazy w-full" frameborder%3D"0" allow%3D"accelerometer%3B autoplay%3B clipboard-write%3B encrypted-media%3B gyroscope%3B picture-in-picture%3B web-share" referrerpolicy%3D"strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen>Not flagged
<iframe width%3D"1" height%3D"1" style%3D"width: 1px%3B height: 1px%3B border: 0%3B" src%3D"https://counter.theconversation.com/content/285134/count.gif" frameborder%3D"0">Not flagged
<iframe width%3D"100%" height%3D"400px" style%3D"border: 0%3B" id%3D"bKEkm" class%3D"tc-infographic-datawrapper w-full lazy" data-src%3D"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/bKEkm/6/" scrolling%3D"no" frameborder%3D"0">Not flagged
<iframe width%3D"560" height%3D"315" data-src%3D"https://www.youtube.com/embed/77V_n3-EryM?si%3DgGgJ2QDMA6xTF9B_" class%3D"lazy w-full" title%3D"YouTube video player" frameborder%3D"0" allow%3D"accelerometer%3B autoplay%3B clipboard-write%3B encrypted-media%3B gyroscope%3B picture-in-picture%3B web-share" referrerpolicy%3D"strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen%3D"allowfullscreen">Not flagged
<iframe width%3D"560" height%3D"315" data-src%3D"https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fat9dLlpVVo?si%3DmgNzX_PfGMXP3hkG" class%3D"lazy w-full" title%3D"YouTube video player" frameborder%3D"0" allow%3D"accelerometer%3B autoplay%3B clipboard-write%3B encrypted-media%3B gyroscope%3B picture-in-picture%3B web-share" referrerpolicy%3D"strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen%3D"allowfullscreen">Not flagged
<iframe width%3D"600" style%3D"max-width: 100%%3B border: 0%3B" data-src%3D"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116667326723211656/embed" class%3D"truthsocial-embed w-full h-full lazy" allowfullscreen%3D"allowfullscreen">Not flagged
salon.com Overview

Description of salon.com

Salon.com appears to be a long-running digital news and opinion publication focused on news, politics, culture, science, food, money, and video content. The homepage screenshot shows a magazine-style editorial layout with article headlines, featured stories, topic navigation, and subscription prompts, which is consistent with an established online media outlet.

Based on the domain age, traffic ranking, and page metadata, the site appears to be operated as a mainstream publishing platform rather than a personal blog or temporary content site. Its content structure suggests a professionally managed newsroom or editorial organization serving a broad readership interested in current affairs, commentary, and lifestyle coverage.

Safety Assessment for salon.com

The strongest scan signals are generally favorable. At the time of this scan, 0 out of 91 security engines flagged the domain, and the major threat-database checks provided in the scan were clean. The domain is also very old, has a strong traffic ranking, and the visible homepage content matches a legitimate news publication rather than a phishing page, fake storefront, or malware-delivery landing page.

One scanner did mark multiple URLs and a few outbound links as malicious or suspicious, but the flagged items appear to include ordinary article pages, a favicon, advertising-related JavaScript, affiliate links, and a research-paper link. In context, these look more like low-confidence or heuristic detections than corroborated evidence of active compromise, especially since they are not supported by the broader multi-engine results or blacklist data.

Based on available data, no threats were detected by the broader scan consensus at the time of this scan, though the isolated heuristic findings suggest a small degree of caution is still reasonable.

Technical Description

The domain is approximately 31 years old and uses a valid SSL certificate issued through Amazon infrastructure, with hosting delivered via AWS CloudFront and an Apache web server. The nameserver setup also points to AWS-managed DNS, which is common for large content sites and suggests a mature hosting environment.

DNSSEC appears to be unsigned, which is not uncommon but means DNS responses do not benefit from that additional integrity layer. No major blacklist issues were reported, and the server-side setup otherwise appears consistent with a high-traffic media website using a content delivery network.

HTTP Redirect Chain
301 https://salon.com/
200 https://www.salon.com/
Website Insights
#3,496
Tranco Rank
Very Popular
Visitors >10M/mo
Category: News & Media
Rank History (30 days)
May 18 Jun 26
18 cookies detected
Essential16
Analytics2
Advertising0
Social0
18 1st party cookies
0 3rd party (trackers)
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