Sheet DS-00020 · .GOV.UK
Domain statistics for metoffice.gov.uk
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Surveyor's notes
metoffice.gov.uk was registered on 21 Aug 2000, which makes it 26 years, 1 month old, and its registrar is Met Office. The current registration runs until 21 Aug 2035 (3243 days away).
Its home page loads at www.metoffice.gov.uk over a secure HTTPS connection, served from the AKAMAI-AS - Akamai Technologies, Inc. network (registered in United States).
The Wayback Machine first captured its home page in October 2000; it ranks 7,610 in the Tranco list of the top million sites.
For email, it receives email (2 mail servers), has an SPF record, has a DMARC policy of "reject". It has no IPv6 address.
- 26 yrsAge
- 3,243 daysRenewal due
- #7,610Tranco rank
- 2000First archived
- validHTTPS
- £5,000–£25,000Rough worth
Key to symbols
- Good Present, valid or working
- Worth a look Missing, weak or unusual
- Problem Failed, expired or misconfigured
- Information A fact, neither good nor bad
- Not recorded Not found, not applicable or no answer
- Being surveyed Queued or running
Registration
Registered- Registered
- 21 Aug 2000 26 years, 1 month ago
- Registration ends
- 21 Aug 2035 3,243 days to go
- Last updated
- 22 Jul 2026
- Registrar
- Met Office
- Status codes
- server update prohibited The registry has locked the domain against changes.
- server delete prohibited The registry has locked the domain against deletion.
- Nameservers
- asia2.akam.net
- asia3.akam.net
- eur2.akam.net
- ns1-110.akam.net
- ns1-172.akam.net
- use1.akam.net
- use2.akam.net
- use4.akam.net
- DNSSEC
- Not signed
What this means These dates come from the registry's RDAP record (source: rdap.nominet.uk). "Registered" is when the current registration began — if a domain lapsed and was registered again, the clock restarts. We never show personal registrant details. See what domain age means.
Archive history
Archived- First capture
- 18 Oct 2000 25 years, 11 months ago
- Latest capture
- 3 Oct 2026
Year by year
| Year | Months captured |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 2 |
| 2001 | 4 |
| 2002 | 3 |
| 2003 | 10 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2005 | 12 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 8 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2009 | 11 |
| 2010 | 12 |
| 2011 | 12 |
| 2012 | 12 |
| 2013 | 12 |
| 2014 | 12 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 12 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2018 | 12 |
| 2019 | 12 |
| 2020 | 12 |
| 2021 | 12 |
| 2022 | 12 |
| 2023 | 12 |
| 2024 | 12 |
| 2025 | 12 |
| 2026 | 10 |
Open the Wayback Machine calendar
What this means The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine saves copies of web pages. The first capture shows roughly when a site first appeared on the web — it can be later than registration (nothing published yet) or earlier (an older owner). See the Wayback Machine guide.
Popularity and traffic
In the Tranco list- Tranco rank
- #7,610 of the top million
- Traffic (rough estimate)
- 500,000 – 50 million visits a monthA deliberately wide band based only on the rank band (top 10,000). Not measured.
Rank from the Tranco list (list ID Y83KG, 4 Oct 2026), a research ranking by Le Pochat et al. that averages several popularity sources over 30 days.
What this means A rank shows how popular a site is compared with others — 1 is the most popular. Turning a rank into visitor numbers is guesswork, so we show a very wide band and explain the method on our methodology page.
Estimated worth
Rough estimate£5,000 – £25,00066 points
For interest only — not a valuation. A domain is worth what a buyer will pay; this simple formula can't see trademarks, backlinks, sales history or demand.
| Factor | Points | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Length | +4 | The name part is 9 characters long; shorter names are scarcer. |
| Ending | +3 | Domain ending .gov.uk. |
| Two dictionary words | +8 | Made of "met" + "office". |
| Age | +15 | Registered 26 years, 1 month ago (by the registry's current record). |
| Archive history | +3 | The Wayback Machine has captures of the home page. |
| Long archive history | +5 | First captured in 2000. |
| Popularity | +22 | Ranked 7,610 in the Tranco top-million list. |
| Live website | +4 | The home page loads. |
| HTTPS | +2 | A valid, trusted certificate. |
| Total | 66 | Mapped to a £ band on our methodology page. |
What this means Read how domain value is judged for the factors professionals look at.
DNS and email
SPF and DMARC set- A (IPv4)
- 23.204.198.71
- AAAA (IPv6)
- none
- www
- CNAME → www.metoffice.gov.uk.edgekey.net
- Nameservers
- use4.akam.net
- ns1-110.akam.net
- use2.akam.net
- use1.akam.net
- eur2.akam.net
- asia3.akam.net
- ns1-172.akam.net
- asia2.akam.net
- Mail (MX)
-
- 8 expmgw01.metoffice.gov.uk
- 10 expmgw02.metoffice.gov.uk
- SPF
-
v=spf1 ip4:151.170.240.81 ip4:151.170.240.82 ip4:18.196.215.67 ip4:151.170.240.156 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:service-now.com include:ciphr247.com include:spf.imc-hosting.com ~allEnds with ~all; about 4 of the 10 DNS lookups SPF allows are used at the top level (includes can add more). - DMARC
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v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:dmarc-rua@dmarc.service.gov.uk,mailto:0pkkyysw@ag.eu.dmarcadvisor.com; pct=100Policy: reject; aggregate reports requested - CAA
- none — any certificate authority may issue certificates
- TXT
12 TXT records
- 292a9b7bd2
- ca3-e7ee9a465a4f450388c81d397a727b07
- google-site-verification=PnAfHBHvwAtAdRSHZtfWxYgV339c9SfkouRZmLFTMDs
- Q2PBeSqvPlr0vx1FvIxHtxDZ4Ue6+7kgfPT/mEfogk1BdhP4ekKhHx/gySZAX3X7XQTyVusW8AOUmzoaLW9K+g==
- apple-domain-verification=IaAE8Wc8lOVy7drQ
- ca3-7e05e75582fb47b6b5de2b5075470a72
- l74jh60argr62a4q2vrrd6qbp9
- h1-domain-verification=fKrqugoJmJzD3CDXgMG8cxRGtXZFpo3sGo7LxqXVnsWPnzgH
- atlassian-domain-verification=fCyieFbMOSTL+D/K0DokXpV2XIkGSpKCRtAb/qzrTkfKdBq0TDejSbgOj6AzCPW8
- v=spf1 ip4:151.170.240.81 ip4:151.170.240.82 ip4:18.196.215.67 ip4:151.170.240.156 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:service-now.com include:ciphr247.com include:spf.imc-hosting.com ~all
- snowflake-verification=f5a212ff-019f-1000-800c-000000000404
- hut-six-verification=21csz21ueu
- IPv6
- No IPv6 address for the domain or www
- DNSSEC validation
- Not validated (unsigned, or not checked)
What this means DNS records tell the internet where a domain's website and email live. SPF lists the servers allowed to send its email and DMARC tells receivers what to do with messages that fail checks — both help stop spoofing. DKIM keys live under selectors we cannot guess, so they are not shown. Read DNS records explained and SPF, DKIM and DMARC.
Hosting network
Network identified- IP address
- 23.204.198.71 one of 2 addresses
- Network
- AKAMAI-AS - Akamai Technologies, Inc., US
- AS number
- AS16625
- IP block
- 23.204.192.0/19
- Network country
- United StatesWhere the network is registered — not necessarily where the server sits.
- Reverse DNS
- a23-204-198-71.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com
- CDN / platform hint
- Amazon CloudFront
What this means The hosting network is the autonomous system (AS) that announces the website's IP address on the internet — often a hosting company or a content delivery network (CDN). Looked up through Team Cymru's IP-to-ASN service.
Search engines
Not checked automaticallyWe don't check Google or Bing automatically: neither offers a free API for this, and we don't scrape search results. You can check yourself with a site: search:
- Common Crawl
- Found in the September 2026 IndexCommon Crawl is an open, free web archive — a rough sign of whether crawlers reach the site. Sites can block its crawler (CCBot) in robots.txt.
What this means A site: search shows a sample of the pages a search engine has indexed — the count is only an estimate. For a definite answer for your own site, use Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. See how to check Google indexing.
The name itself
Name facts- Name part
- metoffice 9 characters
- Whole domain
- metoffice.gov.uk 16 characters
- Characters
- 9 letters, 0 digits, 0 hyphens
- Internationalised (IDN)
- No — plain ASCII
- Dictionary
- Two dictionary words: "met" + "office"
- Pronounceable
- Yes, by our simple vowel/consonant test
- Ending
- .gov.uk A second-level ending under a country code (like .co.uk)
What this means Short, easy-to-say names without hyphens or digits are easier to remember and type. Domain names can be up to 63 characters per label; in DNS, non-ASCII names are stored as "xn--" Punycode.
Website
Website loads- Status
- 200 OK
- Final address
- https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ Visit site
- HTTPS
- Loads over HTTPS
- HTTP → HTTPS
- Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS
- Redirects (HTTPS)
- 301 https://metoffice.gov.uk/
- 200 https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/
- Redirects (HTTP)
- 301 http://metoffice.gov.uk/
- 301 https://metoffice.gov.uk/
- 200 https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/
- Response time
- 72 ms to first byteMeasured once from our server in the UK, for the final page only.
- Page weight (HTML)
- 165 KBThe HTML document only — images, scripts and styles are not counted.
- Server header
- not sent
- Page title
- Weather and climate change - Met Office
- Meta description
- Met Office weather forecasts for the UK. World leading weather services for the public.
- Language
- en
- Canonical
- https://www.metoffice.gov.uk
- Robots directives
- meta: max-image-preview:large
- Generator / CMS hints
- none detected
- Open Graph tags
- Present (7 tags) — links shared on social media get a title and preview
- robots.txt
- Found · lists 1 sitemap
- sitemap.xml
- Found
What this means We load the home page once over HTTPS and once over plain HTTP, following up to five redirects, and read only the page's headers and head tags — we don't store the page. A missing title or description is worth fixing for search results; a robots "noindex" keeps a page out of search engines.
SSL certificate
Valid certificate- Checked host
- www.metoffice.gov.uk
- Trusted
- Yes — the chain verifies against standard root certificates
- Name match
- The certificate covers www.metoffice.gov.uk
- Issuer
- DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G3 TLS ECC SHA384 2020 CA1
- Subject
- www.metoffice.gov.uk
- Valid from
- 18 Aug 2026
- Valid until
- 4 Mar 2027 151 days left
- Lifetime
- 199 days
- Names covered (SANs)
- 10
Show some
- www.metoffice.gov.uk
- acct.metoffice.gov.uk
- logon.metoffice.gov.uk
- logonpre.metoffice.gov.uk
- metoffice.gov.uk
- register.metoffice.gov.uk
- registerpre.metoffice.gov.uk
- test.metoffice.gov.uk
- Connection
- TLSv1.3 TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
What this means A TLS certificate proves the server is entitled to use the name and encrypts the connection. Certificates now last months rather than years, so automatic renewal matters. Read SSL certificates explained.
Security headers
Few headers set2/6 recommended security headers present on the home page.
- Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS)
- Set — remembered for 0 daysTells browsers to use HTTPS only.
- Content-Security-Policy
- Not setLimits where scripts and other content can load from.
- X-Content-Type-Options
- nosniffStops browsers guessing file types.
- Frame protection
- Not setX-Frame-Options or CSP frame-ancestors — prevents clickjacking.
- Referrer-Policy
- Not setControls what address is passed on when visitors click away.
- Permissions-Policy
- Not setTurns off browser features the site doesn't use.
What this means These response headers are defences a site can switch on in its server settings. Missing ones are common and not proof of a problem, but they are cheap to add.
Other endings
1 apparently free- metoffice.com Registered since 1997
- metoffice.co.uk Registered since 1999
- metoffice.uk Registered since 2014
- metoffice.net Registered since 2002
- metoffice.org Registered since 2000
- metoffice.info Apparently available Check at NameSilo
What this means "Apparently available" means the registry's RDAP service has no record of the name. Some names are reserved or premium-priced, so confirm at a registrar before relying on it.