msn.com — domain analysis
AdvantageBizMarketing Editorial
October 5, 2026
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msn.com is a live website, registered in 1994, served from Teterboro, United States. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 4 of 6 common security headers.
Does msn.com publish the usual trust pages?
None of about, contact, privacy or terms could be found at their usual addresses.
That is common for small or single-purpose sites, and it is also what a disposable
site looks like, so it is worth noting rather than concluding from.
These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.
How does msn.com compare with other domains analysed here?
Measured against the 74 domains in this index. This is a
small, self-selected sample — the domains people happened to look up — not a
representative sample of the web.
| Response time | Faster than 54% of them (median 486ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 84% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 91% of them |
Related domains in this index
Other analysed domains served from the same country:
When was msn.com registered?
msn.com was registered on 10 November 1994, which makes it about 31 years old.
A registration this old means the domain has been renewed repeatedly, which costs money every year and is not something abandoned or disposable projects tend to do.
The registrar of record is MarkMonitor Inc..
Registration runs until 4 June 2027.
The domain carries 6 registry locks, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 10 November 1994 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 4 June 2027 |
| Registrar | MarkMonitor Inc. |
| Registry status | client delete prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited, server delete prohibited, server transfer prohibited, server update prohibited |
Where is msn.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Teterboro, United States.
The network is operated by Microsoft Corporation (AS8068 Microsoft Corporation).
Hosting location describes where the responding server sits, not where the business is. A CDN will report its nearest edge rather than the origin.
What is msn.com running on?
No platform, framework or analytics fingerprints were found in the homepage markup of msn.com. That usually means hand-written HTML, an uncommon stack, or a page assembled entirely at the edge.
No recognisable platform, framework or analytics fingerprints were found in the homepage markup.
How does the homepage respond?
The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.
At 398ms to first byte this response is unremarkable for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML weighs 48KB, which is ordinary for a homepage.
The HTML is compressed with gzip.
| Server header | Kestrel |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 49,094 bytes |
| Declared language | de-de |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title is only 3 characters, which is short enough that it probably is not describing the page so much as naming it.
There is no meta description, so the snippet shown in search results is assembled by the search engine from whatever text it considers relevant.
No H1 heading was found, so the page offers no single top-level statement of what it is.
| Title | MSN (3 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | — none — (0 chars) |
| H1 | — none — (0 on the page) |
| Canonical | not set |
| Open Graph title | not set |
| Headings / images | 0 H2s, 0 images (0 without alt text) |
Is msn.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by Microsoft Corporation and is
valid until 2027-02-25, which is 143 days from the date of this check. It covers
3 hostnames.
- *.msn.com
- *.services.msn.com
- msn.com
The certificate has 143 days left to run.
Which security headers does it set?
4 of 6 are set (HSTS, Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options). Absent: Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
| Header | Set | Value |
|---|---|---|
| HSTS | yes | max-age=63072000 ; includeSubDomains |
| Content Security Policy | yes | block-all-mixed-content;connect-src 'self' data: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' https: blob: wss:;default-src 'self' data |
| X-Content-Type-Options | yes | nosniff |
| X-Frame-Options | yes | sameorigin |
| Referrer-Policy | no | — |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for msn.com?
| IP addresses | 204.79.197.219 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | 204.79.197.219 |
| Name servers | dns1.p08.nsone.net, dns2.p08.nsone.net, dns3.p08.nsone.net, dns4.p08.nsone.net, ns1-204.azure-dns.com, ns2-204.azure-dns.net, ns3-204.azure-dns.org, ns4-204.azure-dns.info |
| Mail (MX) | msn-com.olc.protection.outlook.com (pri 2) |
| SPF | v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spf-a.hotmail.com include:spf-b.hotmail.com include:spf-c.hotmail.com include:spf-d.hotmail.com include:_spf-ssg-a.microsoft.com ~all |
| TXT records | 6 |
msn.com resolves to a single address, so there is no DNS-level redundancy.
Mail is handled by 1 exchanger.
An SPF record is published, giving receiving servers a rule for which hosts may send as this domain.
Reverse DNS resolves to 204.79.197.219, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for msn.com?
DNS is operated by Azure DNS rather than self-hosted name servers.
Mail is handled by Microsoft 365.
No AAAA records are published, so the site is reachable over IPv4 only.
What else is worth noting about msn.com?
5 of 5 externally hosted scripts carry no subresource integrity hash. If one of those hosts were compromised, the replacement script would run with full access to the page.
Can msn.com be spoofed in email?
DMARC is published with p=none, which monitors but does not act. Forged mail is still delivered; the owner just gets reports about it.
CAA records restrict certificate issuance to 4 named authorities (issue digicert.com, issue globalsign.com, issue microsoft.com, contactemail [email protected]), so no other CA should be able to issue for this domain.
The zone is not DNSSEC-signed. That is still the norm for most domains, but it means DNS answers cannot be cryptographically verified.
What else does msn.com publish?
An ads.txt file is published with 792 entries, which means the site sells programmatic advertising and has declared who may resell its inventory.
An app-ads.txt file is also published, which indicates mobile app inventory alongside the website.
What does robots.txt allow?
robots.txt is 5,245 bytes and names
75 user-agent groups.
It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.
Sitemaps declared:
- https://www.msn.com/sitemaps/casualgames/sitemap-index.xml
- https://www.msn.com/sitemaps/consumption/index.xml
- https://www.msn.com/sitemaps/health/health-sitemap-index.xml
- https://www.msn.com/staticsb/statics/latest/0/casualgames/sitemaps/sitemap-index.xml
- https://www.msn.com/staticsb/statics/latest/0/finance/sitemaps/sitemap-index.xml
- https://www.msn.com/sitemaps/weather/sitemap-index.xml
AI crawler policy
| Crawler | Policy |
|---|---|
| gptbot | allowed |
| claudebot | allowed |
| perplexitybot | allowed |
| google-extended | allowed |
| ccbot | allowed |
| applebot-extended | allowed |
| bytespider | allowed |
| anthropic-ai | allowed |
6 sitemaps are declared in robots.txt, which gives crawlers a direct list of URLs.
Named AI crawlers are explicitly allowed (gptbot, claudebot, perplexitybot, google-extended, ccbot, applebot-extended, bytespider, anthropic-ai).
What structured data does the homepage publish?
No JSON-LD or microdata was found on the homepage.
What does msn.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 5 third-party hosts (bing.com, c.bing.com, img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net, sb.scorecardresearch.com, th.bing.com). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
4 cookies are set before any interaction (_C_ETH, _C_Auth, USRLOC, _EDGE_S). 2 lack the Secure flag.
| Cookie | Secure | HttpOnly | SameSite |
|---|---|---|---|
| _C_ETH | yes | yes | none/unset |
| _C_Auth | no | no | none/unset |
| USRLOC | yes | yes | none |
| _EDGE_S | no | yes | none/unset |
Does msn.com settle on one address?
Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, so visitors who type the bare address still land on the secure version.
The www address redirects, so the site settles on one canonical hostname.
How easily can msn.com be crawled?
A sitemap index is served at https://www.msn.com/sitemaps/casualgames/sitemap-index.xml listing 60 entries.
A deliberately invalid URL correctly returns HTTP 404, so missing pages will not be indexed.
What tracking does msn.com run?
No analytics or advertising trackers were detected on the homepage of msn.com, which is unusual for a commercial site.
How does msn.com look when shared?
No Open Graph or Twitter Card tags are present. Links shared to social platforms will fall back to whatever the platform can scrape, usually just a bare URL.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
The page pulls 0 external stylesheets and 6 external scripts, with 4 carrying defer or async.
Is msn.com accessible and current?
The page uses 0 landmark elements and 0 ARIA attributes.
No skip-to-content link was found, which keyboard users rely on to bypass navigation.
Can search engines index msn.com?
Nothing on the homepage prevents indexing: no noindex is set in the robots meta tag or the X-Robots-Tag header.
No canonical URL is declared, which leaves duplicate addresses of this page to be resolved by the search engine.
Visible text is only 0% of the HTML, which indicates the page is assembled in the browser rather than served as content.
How is msn.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: no-store,no-cache.
No favicon is declared in the markup.
The TLS certificate also covers 1 subdomain: services.msn.com.
- services.msn.com
Frequently asked questions
Does msn.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 4 of 6. The ones not present are: Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
Does msn.com allow AI crawlers?
robots.txt names no AI crawler specifically, so they fall under the wildcard rule, which does not disallow them.
Where does this data come from?
Every figure was measured by our own server on 5 October 2026: DNS lookups, one HTTPS request to the homepage, a TLS handshake and a request for robots.txt. No third-party SEO API is involved.
Is any of this traffic or authority data?
No. Traffic, authority and ranking figures cannot be measured by inspecting a domain, only modelled. Everything here is a direct observation.
I own msn.com and want this page removed.
Ask through the contact page on this site, from an address at the domain, and the report will be taken down. It only ever shows what the domain already serves publicly.
Analysed 5 October 2026.
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