GoGuides Trust Record

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Current Trust Summary

This GoGuides Trust Record summarizes the current measured state for towntopics.com.

Trust Status

Policy blocked
First recorded by GoGuides: 2026-01-08 23:56:44

Public Eligibility

This domain is not eligible for positive trust display or machine-readable trust use.

Policy Reason

secretsauce penalty match
Code: secretsauce_penalty_match

Historical Grade

Not Available / Historical Rank 84

Crawl Freshness

Fresh
Last crawled 8 hours ago

Domain Provenance Record

21 measurements across 154 days

Stability Window

0 days

Trust Record

This domain is policy blocked. This Trust Record is shown for transparency and audit purposes only.

Policy blocked. Trust activation, badge publication, and positive machine-readable trust use are not available while this decision is active.

Canonical URL

https://towntopics.com/

Matched URL

https://towntopics.com/

AI Rank

Grade

Not Available

Domain Provenance Timeline

Independent GoGuides observations showing when this domain was first recorded, how long it has been observed, and when its recorded state changed.

Observed Web & Network State

Objective state captured by GoGuides during its domain observation. These fields describe what GoGuides observed and are separate from AI Rank or Grade.

HTTP Status

200

Observed Final URL

https://www.towntopics.com/

Observed Public IP Address

216.92.187.1

Observed Nameservers

ns25.worldnic.com, ns26.worldnic.com

Robots Access

Allowed
robots_unreachable_allowed

Page Robots Directive

max-image-preview:large

TLS Certificate

CN=YR2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US
Valid 2026-06-22 03:42:22 to 2026-09-20 03:42:21

Observed Provenance States

9 stored states across 19 observations

Observed State Changes

Content: 4
Robots: 0
DNS: 0
TLS certificate: 0
Final URL: 0

Observed Evidence Details

These are objective observations recorded by the GoGuides crawler. They are separate from GoGuides AI Rank, Grade, or other interpretation.

Observation Type
Full Page Observation

Requested URL
https://towntopics.com/

Final URL
https://www.towntopics.com/

HTTP Status
200

Redirect Count
1

Content Type
text/html; charset=UTF-8

Response Bytes
139,505

Canonical URL
Not observed

Observed Page Title
Town Topics – Princeton's Weekly Community Newspaper Since 1946

Robots Access
Allowed

Robots Reason
robots_unreachable_allowed

Meta Robots
max-image-preview:large

X-Robots-Tag
Not observed

Observed Public IP Address(es)
216.92.187.1

Observed Nameservers
ns25.worldnic.com, ns26.worldnic.com

TLS Certificate Issuer
CN=YR2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US

TLS Valid From
2026-06-22 03:42:22

TLS Valid Until
2026-09-20 03:42:21

First Observed
2026-08-15 04:04:18

Last Observed
2026-08-15 07:34:22

Identical-State Observations
2

▶ Show Cryptographic Evidence & SHA-256 Hashes ▼ Cryptographic Evidence & SHA-256 Hashes

                Title SHA-256

                f7f622bf59c05e079ded530c80e22811d450fbc88e0453f52674ead1991212b0            

                Content SHA-256

                9da3d9311ab75fa2ddc2aead4f060499db8b24f86d9d7efcfc00e593785c5dd1            

                HTTP Body SHA-256

                a7859860d3fb01da4145e33b3a85f6661c7431ae40f7aaa40a581fe63a5211c0            

                robots.txt SHA-256

                Not observed            

                DNS State SHA-256

                ba6ccc1bfe91fb14ba21bf61fc10d09a631dd227203208a9f37ac1c3edce2448            

                TLS Certificate SHA-256

                67e733d4c934a9d972b19c432985f914575c0522f5317a357fa1c8132ac78c44            

                Complete Provenance State SHA-256

                980cb88304bed875d2ff9fce52a6146406776655ab102cb6cb4c33814ece230b

View Machine-Readable Provenance JSON

First Seen by GoGuides

2026-01-08 23:56:44

Last Crawled by GoGuides

2026-08-15 07:34:22 (8 hours ago)

Last Record Refresh

2026-08-15 07:40:56 (8 hours ago)

Record Refresh Freshness

Fresh
Last refreshed 8 hours ago

Stored Measurement Age

154 days

Trust Record Age

218 days ago

Stored Trust Measurements

Measurement Span

154 days across 21 stored measurements

Stability Window

0 days

Current Trust State Since

2026-08-15 04:03:34 (12 hours ago)

Days Since Last Change

0 days

Rank/Algo State Changes

Trust Record Fingerprint (SHA-256)

052eaa9f8f9b732364aafbdbcdfb0b3aa3e5de027f9e038d074243465a3b20eb

Computed from: matched URL + rank + last crawled + algorithm version. This identifies the GoGuides trust record state; it is not domain-owner verification.

Provenance Observation History

This timeline shows when GoGuides recorded this trust state, including rank, crawl timing, algorithm version, and verification fingerprint.

Trust Favicon Not Available

This record is policy blocked and is shown for transparency only. GoGuides does not publish a positive trust favicon for this domain while this decision is active.

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