urs.pbs.org
Category: News & Media
Description of urs.pbs.org
urs.pbs.org appears to be a subdomain under pbs.org, which is associated with PBS, a long-established U.S. public broadcasting organization. Based on the domain structure, this host may be intended for a specific internal service, campaign, application endpoint, or legacy resource rather than a standalone public-facing website.
At the time of this scan, the page returned a simple "404 Not Found" response instead of a full content experience. That suggests the subdomain may currently be inactive for general browsing, restricted to specific paths, or used for backend or limited-purpose functions rather than as a primary public homepage.
Safety Assessment for urs.pbs.org
The available scan results were broadly clean at the time of this scan. The domain was not flagged by any of 91 security engines, the malware scan reported no flagged files, and the checked blacklist and threat-database sources did not indicate known phishing or malware activity.
Additional context also modestly supports a low-risk assessment: the parent domain is very old, the registrar is a corporate registrar commonly used by established organizations, and the current page shows a basic 404 error rather than deceptive content, downloads, or suspicious prompts. A 404 page does not by itself indicate a threat; it more often means the requested resource is unavailable or the host is not meant to serve content at that path.
Based on available data, no threats were detected at the time of this scan.
Technical Description
The host presented a valid SSL/TLS certificate issued through Amazon infrastructure, with certificate expiry listed as 2026-10-29. DNS points to AWS-hosted nameservers and the server IP resolves to AWS EC2 in Ashburn, Virginia, which suggests cloud-based hosting. The web server software and supported protocol details were not identified in the scan output.
The domain is longstanding, at roughly 31 years old, which can be a positive trust signal in context, although this specific host is a subdomain. DNSSEC appears to be unsigned, which is not uncommon but means DNS responses do not benefit from DNSSEC validation. No immediate technical security concerns were evident from the provided scan data beyond the page returning a 404 response.
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