Security Scan: Azure WAF

Summary

API

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Scan result: counts, verdicts, details, IPs, technologies, hashes/api/v1/result/4517d1d3-0eae-4cce-b0c1-0f3a1e7bc251 Domain and IP registration (RDAP)/api/v1/rdap/4517d1d3-0eae-4cce-b0c1-0f3a1e7bc251How often this domain was scanned/api/v1/domain/stats/thecomet.net Scan history for this domain/api/v1/domain/history/thecomet.net?limit=15

This website contacted 35 IPs in 5 countries across 2 domains to perform 5 HTTP transactions. The main domain is thecomet.net and was registered 25 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://thecomet.net

Effective URL:

https://www.thecomet.net/

Redirected

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #523,365 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 88%

Risk Score

Established regional news site (The Comet, Newsquest) served behind an Azure WAF bot challenge. No forms, no brand impersonation, no threat-intel, hunting rule or IDS findings.

Safety Factors (5)

25-year-old established domain matching its own displayed brand

No forms of any kind and no credential exfiltration

No Indicators of Compromise, hunting rule, Safebrowsing or IDS findings

Third-party scripts all standard analytics/advertising/CDN hosts tied to the publisher

WAF challenge page is a routine bot-mitigation response, not a lure

Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Azure WAF

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

Within the network infrastructure generic top-level domain (.net), 'thecomet.net' is registered while skipping any subdomain. Its registrable label 'thecomet' stretches across 8 characters containing 3 vowels alongside 5 consonants. Splitting it apart reveals two words: the, comet. The median word length lands at four characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

The COMET Advertising provides the means by which we are able to fund our team of talented journalists. This funding is essential to the continued delivery of the local news stories and quality journ...

Page Load Overview

0.43s

Total Load Time

7 KB

Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English

Code: en

Confidence:55%

Script:Latin

Direction:ltr

Detection Details

Text Length:154 chars

Detector Agreement:67%

Website Classification

Primary Category

technology software68% confidence

Type: static

Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

technology software

68%

documentation technical

53%

adult content

46%

healthcare medical

46%

cryptocurrency blockchain

46%

Detected Features

No structural features detected

Domain & IP Information

Requests	IP Address	Location	AS Autonomous System
5	150.171.109.106Azure · CLOUD	United States	AS8075Microsoft Corporation
0	150.171.109.99Azure · CLOUD	United States	AS8075Microsoft Corporation
0	20.90.133.1Azure · CLOUD	London, England, United Kingdom	AS8075Microsoft Corporation
0	192.0.66.159	San Francisco, California, United States	AS2635Automattic, Inc
0	142.251.110.95Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
0	151.101.193.155Fastly · CDN	United States	AS54113Fastly, Inc.
0	23.52.181.12Akamai · CDN	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS16625Akamai Technologies, Inc.
0	3.174.46.97Cloudfront · CDN	United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
0	142.250.154.156Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
0	104.26.12.204Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
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