ancestry.com
UnclaimedWebsite
One of the first images collected of this website on 28 Oct 1996
Truth score
Business details
- Domain age
- 31 years
- Address
- Not foundNo address found using the trading company name
- Email address
- Not found
- Phone number
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- Website
- ancestry.com
- Social media
Customer reviews
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Is ancestry.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 85 out of 100, high truth signals: 8 of 10 public checks clear, 2 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. Customer satisfaction: mixed.
ancestry.com's website address was registered 31 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. It is among the 5,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar). Google Safe Browsing shows no malware or phishing warnings for its website. We could not find an address, an email address or a phone number.
Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.
Positives
- Its website address was registered 31 years ago.
- It is among the 5,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar).
- Google Safe Browsing shows no malware or phishing warnings for its website.
Not found
- Address information was not found from our checks.
- Email address information was not found from our checks.
- Phone number information was not found from our checks.
How to check if ancestry.com is legit
8 clear · 2 for informationTo check if ancestry.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews, visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about ancestry.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.
Company detailsFounded in 1983 (Wikipedia)For information
Domain registrationIts website address was registered 31 years agoClear
- Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else
- Domain age
- 31 years
- Domain transfer lock enabled
- Yes
Website detailsFound: https enabledClear
- HTTPS enabled
- Yes
- Contact phone number found
- Not found
- Contact page found
- Not found
Customer reviews44,256 reviews across 3 platforms, rated 3.1 to 3.3 out of 5Clear
- Trustindex, a review service, gathers this business's reviews from Amazon, BBB, ConsumerAffairs and Trustindex on one page, and its rating is counted like any other review site's. A business can claim its page there to collect reviews and reply to them, and which review sites are included differs from one business to the next.
- The listing may be a single store and not the business as a whole.
| Platform | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Trustpilot | Unknown | 36,886 |
| SmartCustomer | Not found | |
| G2 | Not found | |
| Capterra | Not found | |
| Reviews.io | Not found | |
| Feefo | Not found | |
| Trustindex | 3.3 out of 5 | 7,322 |
| 3.1 out of 5 | 48 |
- Trustindex reviews by platform
- Amazon: 6,262, BBB: 297, ConsumerAffairs: 762, Trustindex: 1
Visitor trafficIt is among the 5,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)For information
- Real people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months (Google Chrome usage data)
- Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
- Popularity among Chrome users
- top 1,000 sites
- First known user traffic
- Feb 2021 or earlier
- Months with real traffic, of the last 24
- 24
- Traffic pattern
- sustained
- Rank jump in the last 12 months
- none
- Rank drop in the last 12 months
- none
- Popularity across the internet
- top 5,000 sites
Web history and authorityThe Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 29 years agoClear
- Website archive history
- 29 years
- Wikipedia page
- yes
Social presenceIt is on 2 social media platforms (Facebook and Instagram); the largest audience is 3,006,443 followers on FacebookClear
Malware and phishingGoogle Safe Browsing shows no malware or phishing warnings for its websiteClear
- Malware or phishing threat status
- None
Data breach historyOne known data breach involving the company: Ancestry, the latest 10 years agoClear
- Known data breaches found
- 1
In November 2015, an Ancestry service known as RootsWeb suffered a data breach. The breach was not discovered until late 2017 when a file containing almost 300k email addresses and plain text passwords was identified.
- Accounts affected
- 297,806
- Date
- 7 Nov 2015
- Data exposed
- Email addresses, Passwords
Breach data: Have I Been Pwned
Domain and email securityIts email is protected: mail forged in its name goes to spamClear
- MX records
- Yes
- SPF record
- Yes
- DKIM key
- Yes
- DMARC record
- Yes
- DMARC policy
- quarantine
- Certificate issuer
- Google Trust Services
- Certificate type
- DV
- Certificate expires
- 1 Dec 2026
- Nameservers
- ns-1429.awsdns-50.org
ns-1996.awsdns-57.co.uk
ns-415.awsdns-51.com
ns-737.awsdns-28.net - Address
- 104.18.1.50
104.18.0.50
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