- [Home](https://truthsignal.com/) - [Business](https://truthsignal.com/business) - Honolulu Star-Advertiser # staradvertiser.com Markdown: [Snapshot](https://truthsignal.com/business/staradvertiser.com/snapshot.md) [Full report](https://truthsignal.com/business/staradvertiser.com/report.md) ## Website staradvertiser.com Hawaii News, Breaking News & Top Stories | Honolulu Star-Advertiser Hawaii's top source for breaking news, Hawaii news, business, sports, politics, arts and entertainment, traffic, weather and more. Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 22:42 Unclaimed Own this business? Claim it now and get instant access to analytics, insights and further ways to improve your truth score. ## 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](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=500%20Ala%20Moana%20Blvd.%20%237-500%2C%20Honolulu) Email address: customerservice@staradvertiser.com Phone number: [+1 808-529-4747](tel:+1%20808-529-4747) Contact page: [staradvertiser.com/contact/](https://staradvertiser.com/contact/) Website: [staradvertiser.com](https://staradvertiser.com/?utm_source=truthsignal.com&utm_medium=referral) Social media: Not found ## Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints No reviews we could read We 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](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.staradvertiser.com), which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here. [Better Business Bureau](https://www.bbb.org/us/hi/honolulu/profile/newspaper-distributors/honolulu-star-advertiser-1296-1620) Customer satisfaction Insufficient evidence · No reviews found App experience Insufficient 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 Sources [Its homepage](https://www.staradvertiser.com/) ### 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](https://truthsignal.com/guides/how-to-know-if-a-shopping-site-is-legit). ### Who they are Company details Based 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 Sources [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honolulu_Star-Advertiser) Domain registration Its 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 Sources [ICANN Lookup](https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=staradvertiser.com) Website details We 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](tel:+18085294747) Contact page found: Yes Hosting company: WPEngine, Inc. What its pages say Phone support: [+1 808-529-4747](tel:+18085294747), [customerservice@staradvertiser.com](mailto:customerservice@staradvertiser.com) 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.” Sources [Homepage](https://staradvertiser.com/) [Contact page](https://staradvertiser.com/contact/) [About page](https://staradvertiser.com/about/) [Terms page](https://staradvertiser.com/about/terms-of-service/) [Privacy page](https://staradvertiser.com/about/privacy-policy/) Search engines and AI Lets 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 default Googlebot Bing: Allowed by default Bingbot AI training All blocked OpenAI: Blocked by its robots.txt GPTBot Anthropic: Blocked by its robots.txt ClaudeBot Google AI: Blocked by its robots.txt Google-Extended Apple AI: Blocked by its robots.txt Applebot-Extended Common Crawl: Blocked by its robots.txt CCBot Meta: Blocked by its robots.txt meta-externalagent ByteDance (TikTok): Blocked by its robots.txt Bytespider AI answers 3 of 5 blocked ChatGPT search: Blocked by its robots.txt OAI-SearchBot ChatGPT: Blocked by its robots.txt ChatGPT-User Claude search: Allowed by default Claude-SearchBot Claude: Allowed by default Claude-User Perplexity: Blocked by its robots.txt PerplexityBot 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: / Sources [robots.txt](https://staradvertiser.com/robots.txt) ### Reputation and track record Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints It has a review page on [Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.staradvertiser.com) Platform · Rating · Reviews [Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.staradvertiser.com) · Unknown · Unknown [Better Business Bureau](https://www.bbb.org/us/hi/honolulu/profile/newspaper-distributors/honolulu-star-advertiser-1296-1620) Visitor traffic Real 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 - 1 United States 56.0% - 2 Singapore 23.8% - 3 Canada 5.4% - 4 Netherlands 1.2% - 5 Australia 1.2% - 6 Brazil 1.2% - 7 Poland 1.2% - 8 United Arab Emirates 0.6% - 9 France 0.6% - 10 Japan 0.6% Top 10 of 24 countries. Sources [Chrome UX Report](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux) [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/staradvertiser.com) Web history and authority The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 16 years ago Website archive history: 16 years Sources [First archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20100307/staradvertiser.com) Social presence We 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 says We 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.” Source [Its privacy policy](https://www.staradvertiser.com/about/privacy-policy/) Tracking tools on its homepage Google 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. Source [Its homepage](https://staradvertiser.com/) ### Safety Malware and phishing No malware or phishing warnings found for its website This 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 Sources [Google Web Risk](https://docs.cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/advisory) Data breach history No known data breach involving the company Known data breaches found: 0 Sources [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/) Domain and email security Its 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 Email 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 Sources [Its DNS records](https://dns.google/query?name=staradvertiser.com&rr_type=TXT) ### 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 record Not 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 Source staradvertiser.com's DNS records Run staradvertiser.com? Add the record and 3 points are added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/staradvertiser.com) Email at its own domain Not 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 Source Truth Signal's own records Run staradvertiser.com? Confirm an email address at the domain and 1 point is added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/staradvertiser.com) Lets our checker read it Not 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 Source staradvertiser.com/robots.txt Run staradvertiser.com? Let our checker read the whole website and 1 point is added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/staradvertiser.com) Points added to its truth score 0 of 5 Is this your business? Get the code to show this score on your website Truth Signal truth score for staradvertiser.com The badge always shows your latest score and links to your full report. Something wrong on this report? [Dispute this page](https://truthsignal.com/contact?dispute=staradvertiser.com). Tell us which row or warning is wrong and why. 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