staradvertiser.com

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staradvertiser.com

Hawaii News, Breaking News & Top Stories | Honolulu Star-AdvertiserHawaii's top source for breaking news, Hawaii news, business, sports, politics, arts and entertainment, traffic, weather and more.

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Truth score

Truth score 76 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence

76/ 100

High truth signals

Business details

Category: News and magazines
Founded: 2010
Owned by: Oahu Publications, Inc.
Sells: Subscription or membership
Kind of seller: Information or media
Licensed trade: No licence normally needed
Domain age: 17 years
Address: 500 Ala Moana Blvd. #7-500, Honolulu
Email address: customerservice@staradvertiser.com
Phone number: +1 808-529-4747
Contact page: staradvertiser.com/contact/
Website: staradvertiser.com
Social media: Not found

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

No reviews we could readWe looked on SmartCustomer, G2, Capterra, Reviews.io, Feefo, Trustindex, ComplaintsBoard and ConsumerAffairs

Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a Trustpilot page, which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here.

Better Business Bureau

Customer satisfactionInsufficient evidence· No reviews found

App experienceInsufficient evidence· No app ratings found

Summary

Is staradvertiser.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 76 out of 100, high truth signals: 7 public checks clear, 1 not found, 2 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence.

We read 4 of its pages: contact, about, terms and privacy. Its website address was registered 17 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find social media profiles or a customer rating.

Positives

We read 4 of its pages · contact, about, terms and privacy.
Its website address was registered 17 years ago.
No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Not found

Social presence information was not found from our checks.
Reviews information was not found from our checks.

Our technical team has been informed.

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.

What they offer

Hawaii's top source for breaking news, Hawaii news, business, sports, politics, arts and entertainment, traffic, weather and more.

— Honolulu Star-Advertiser, in their own words

SourcesIts homepage

How to check if staradvertiser.com is legit

To check if staradvertiser.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 (where buyers leave praise and complaints), 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 staradvertiser.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.

Who they are

Company detailsBased in the US; part of Oahu Publications, Inc.; founded in 2010 (Wikipedia)

Country

Where the company is based: US
Why we believe that: the site's structured data states its country, its phone number starts +1, its postcode is a US zip code, its Better Business Bureau profile is a US listing

From Wikipedia

Parent company: Oahu Publications, Inc.
Founded: 2010

SourcesWikipedia

Domain registrationIts website address was registered 17 years ago

Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else

Domain age: 17 years
Domain transfer lock enabled: Yes

SourcesICANN Lookup

Website detailsWe read 4 of its pages: contact, about, terms and privacy

Company contact email is available

HTTPS enabled: Yes
Contact phone number found: +1 808-529-4747
Contact page found: Yes
Hosting company: WPEngine, Inc.

What its pages say

Phone support: +1 808-529-4747, [email protected]
In their own words: “The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Hawaii’s largest news-gathering organization, published its first edition June 7, 2010, after the merger of the 128-year-old Honolulu Star-Bulletin and the 154-year-old Honolulu Advertiser. The newspaper is operated by Oahu Publications Inc., a subsidiary of Carpenter Media Group. Dennis Francis is president of OPI and publisher of the Star-Advertiser.”

SourcesHomepage Contact page About page Terms page Privacy page

Search engines and AILets in search engines; blocks AI training and 3 of 5 AI answer tools

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All allowed

Google Search: Allowed by defaultGooglebot
Bing: Allowed by defaultBingbot

AI training

All blocked

OpenAI: Blocked by its robots.txtGPTBot
Anthropic: Blocked by its robots.txtClaudeBot
Google AI: Blocked by its robots.txtGoogle-Extended
Apple AI: Blocked by its robots.txtApplebot-Extended
Common Crawl: Blocked by its robots.txtCCBot
Meta: Blocked by its robots.txtmeta-externalagent
ByteDance (TikTok): Blocked by its robots.txtBytespider

AI answers

3 of 5 blocked

ChatGPT search: Blocked by its robots.txtOAI-SearchBot
ChatGPT: Blocked by its robots.txtChatGPT-User
Claude search: Allowed by defaultClaude-SearchBot
Claude: Allowed by defaultClaude-User
Perplexity: Blocked by its robots.txtPerplexityBot

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

Sourcesrobots.txt

Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaintsIt has a review page on Trustpilot

Platform	Rating	Reviews
Trustpilot	Unknown	Unknown

Better Business Bureau

Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months

Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
It is among the 100,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 100,000 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

Cloudflare Radar

Popularity across the internet: top 100,000 sites

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up staradvertiser.com, by country, over the last 2 days.

Over 50%
5 to 50%
1 to 5%
0.2 to 1%
Under 0.2%
None seen

1United States56.0%
2Singapore23.8%
3Canada5.4%
4Netherlands1.2%
5Australia1.2%
6Brazil1.2%
7Poland1.2%
8United Arab Emirates0.6%
9France0.6%
10Japan0.6%

Top 10 of 24 countries.

SourcesChrome UX Report Cloudflare Radar

Web history and authorityThe Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 16 years ago

Website archive history: 16 years

SourcesFirst archived copy

Social presenceWe could not check how big its social media following is: the check ran out of time.

What data this site collects about you

What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data

Says it does not sell your personal data.: “We don’t sell, lease, or share your data without your permission.”
Collects where you are.: “They may track sites you visit, the pages you view or ad you clicked on using tools like cookies, JavaScript, location data, etc.”

SourceIts privacy policy

Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Google Ads

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Analytics: Counts your visits and what you look at.
Google Tag Manager: Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.
Google Ads: Tracks what you do to show you Google adverts.

Uses Osano to ask which cookies you allow.

SourceIts homepage

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.

Malware or phishing threat status: None found

SourcesGoogle Web Risk

Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

SourcesHave I Been Pwned

Domain and email securityIts email is only partly protected: mail forged in its name is reported but not blocked

Its email identifies its real senders, but mail forged in its name is not blocked

MX records: Yes
SPF record: Yes
DKIM key: Yes
DMARC record: Yes
DMARC policy: none

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No
Certificate issuer: Let's Encrypt
Certificate type: DV
Certificate expires: 25 Dec 2026

Hosting

Nameservers: ns-1407.awsdns-47.org
ns-1975.awsdns-54.co.uk
ns-232.awsdns-29.com
ns-538.awsdns-03.net
Address: 141.193.213.10
141.193.213.11

SourcesIts DNS records

Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS recordNot added yet+3 possible

What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.
When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.
Points: 0 of 3 added

Sourcestaradvertiser.com's DNS records

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Email at its own domainNot added yet+1 possible

What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.
When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.
Points: 0 of 1 added

SourceTruth Signal's own records

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Lets our checker read itNot added yet+1 possible

What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.
When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.
Points: 0 of 1 added

Sourcestaradvertiser.com/robots.txt

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Points added to its truth score0 of 5

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