Sheet DS-00028 · .GOV.UK
Domain statistics for ofsted.gov.uk
Surveyor's notes
ofsted.gov.uk was registered on 30 Mar 2001, which makes it 25 years, 6 months old, and its registrar is Safenames Ltd. The current registration runs until 30 Mar 2027 (177 days away).
Its home page loads at www.gov.uk over a secure HTTPS connection, served from the FASTLY - Fastly, Inc. network (registered in United States).
The Wayback Machine first captured its home page in February 1998; it ranks 38,776 in the Tranco list of the top million sites.
For email, it receives email (1 mail server), has an SPF record, has a DMARC policy of "reject". It supports IPv6.
- 25 yrsAge
- 177 daysRenewal due
- #38,776Tranco rank
- 1998First archived
- problemHTTPS
- £1,000–£5,000Rough 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
- 30 Mar 2001 25 years, 6 months ago
- Registration ends
- 30 Mar 2027 177 days to go
- Last updated
- 22 Jul 2026
- Registrar
- Safenames Ltd
- Status codes
- client transfer prohibited The registrar has locked the domain against transfer to another registrar (a common security setting).
- client update prohibited The registrar has locked the domain against changes.
- client delete prohibited The registrar has locked the domain against deletion.
- Nameservers
- ns10.dnsmadeeasy.com
- ns11.dnsmadeeasy.com
- ns12.dnsmadeeasy.com
- ns13.dnsmadeeasy.com
- ns14.dnsmadeeasy.com
- ns15.dnsmadeeasy.com
- 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
- 10 Feb 1998 28 years, 7 months ago
- Latest capture
- —
Archive.org's capture index (CDX) didn't answer within 60 seconds — it is often slow. The year-by-year chart will be added on a later re-check.
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
- #38,776 of the top million
- Traffic (rough estimate)
- 50,000 – 5 million visits a monthA deliberately wide band based only on the rank band (top 100,000). 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£1,000 – £5,00058 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 | +10 | The name part is 6 characters long; shorter names are scarcer. |
| Ending | +3 | Domain ending .gov.uk. |
| Pronounceable | +4 | Letters only, with a balance of vowels and consonants. |
| Age | +15 | Registered 25 years, 6 months 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 1998. |
| Popularity | +14 | Ranked 38,776 in the Tranco top-million list. |
| Live website | +4 | The home page loads. |
| Total | 58 | 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)
- 151.101.194.30
- 151.101.130.30
- 151.101.2.30
- 151.101.66.30
- AAAA (IPv6)
- none
- www
- CNAME → redirector-cdn.production.govuk.service.gov.uk
- Nameservers
- ns15.dnsmadeeasy.com
- ns10.dnsmadeeasy.com
- ns12.dnsmadeeasy.com
- ns14.dnsmadeeasy.com
- ns13.dnsmadeeasy.com
- ns11.dnsmadeeasy.com
- Mail (MX)
-
- 0 ofsted-gov-uk.mail.protection.outlook.com
- SPF
-
v=spf1 a mx include:spf1.ofsted.gov.uk include:spf2.ofsted.gov.uk -allEnds with -all; about 3 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:tlsrpt@ofsted.gov.uk; ruf=mailto:tlsrpt@ofsted.gov.uk;Policy: reject; aggregate reports requested - CAA
-
- issue "pki.goog"
- issue "amazon.com"
- iodef "mailto:caa@ofsted.gov.uk"
- issue "thawte.com"
- issuewild ";"
- TXT
9 TXT records
- google-site-verification=5ckovKZvnWt39H-2Z8edzpMyEcNPnsW-LQ0YBFoGYJ4
- v=spf1 a mx include:spf1.ofsted.gov.uk include:spf2.ofsted.gov.uk -all
- sFWhioMkOYPwC0kQNA5oM75DF4E3qqlFu3WJzHPtMAAB5oJS+K1qW9hYWluodVzeOamHdPw6rte1cLd0IY8vIQ==
- mandrill_verify.CsnkL-2QlOUoU0p1RJnxxw
- google-site-verification=ygk8D-kzyETM0hd4kif7MiLpA6e8HFk3yelZp_9IrOQ
- google-site-verification=sRMetrx848ahtIGVM1P_HTEv25pYDo83waf5gL2sRm0
- google-site-verification=9osdDm4ytilK2okhLhvp2UhdraOmrqhBbPTTKhxgafs
- google-site-verification=QpOfNScdQ7mqfqBWgh8y0vA4uzpp-gs6Eov4ZSwWmKo
- MS=ms74691436
- IPv6
- Yes — the site has IPv6 addresses
- 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
- 151.101.194.30 one of 6 addresses
- Network
- FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US
- AS number
- AS54113
- IP block
- 151.101.192.0/22
- Network country
- United StatesWhere the network is registered — not necessarily where the server sits.
- Reverse DNS
- none
- CDN / platform hint
- Fastly
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
- ofsted 6 characters
- Whole domain
- ofsted.gov.uk 13 characters
- Characters
- 6 letters, 0 digits, 0 hyphens
- Internationalised (IDN)
- No — plain ASCII
- Dictionary
- Not a dictionary word (or not one in our list)
- 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.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted Visit site
- HTTPS
- Loads over HTTPS — but the certificate did not verify
- HTTP → HTTPS
- Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS
- Redirects (HTTPS)
- 301 https://ofsted.gov.uk/
- 200 https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted
- Redirects (HTTP)
- 301 http://ofsted.gov.uk/
- 200 https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted
- Response time
- 94 ms to first byteMeasured once from our server in the UK, for the final page only.
- Page weight (HTML)
- 124 KBThe HTML document only — images, scripts and styles are not counted.
- Server header
- nginx
- Page title
- Ofsted - GOV.UK
- Meta description
- Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. We inspect services providing education and skills for learners of all ages. We also inspect and regulate services that care for children and young people. Ofsted is a non-ministerial department.
- Language
- en
- Canonical
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted
- Robots directives
- meta: max-image-preview:none
- Generator / CMS hints
- none detected
- Open Graph tags
- Present (6 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
Certificate problem- Checked host
- ofsted.gov.uk
- Trusted
- Yes — the chain verifies against standard root certificates
- Name match
- The certificate does not list ofsted.gov.uk
- Issuer
- GlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018
- Subject
- www.gov.uk
- Valid from
- 26 Nov 2025
- Valid until
- 28 Dec 2026 85 days left
- Lifetime
- 397 days
- Names covered (SANs)
- 13
Show some
- www.gov.uk
- *.businesslink.gov.uk
- *.direct.gov.uk
- *.publishing.service.gov.uk
- *.cabinet-office.gov.uk
- assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk
- service.gov.uk
- data.gov.uk
- Connection
- TLSv1.3 TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
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
Well protected6/6 recommended security headers present on the home page.
- Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS)
- Set — remembered for 365 days, preload requestedTells browsers to use HTTPS only.
- Content-Security-Policy
- SetLimits where scripts and other content can load from.
- X-Content-Type-Options
- nosniffStops browsers guessing file types.
- Frame protection
- SetX-Frame-Options or CSP frame-ancestors — prevents clickjacking.
- Referrer-Policy
- SetControls what address is passed on when visitors click away.
- Permissions-Policy
- 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
0 apparently free- ofsted.com Registered since 1999
- ofsted.co.uk Registered since 2022
- ofsted.uk Registered since 2020
- ofsted.net Registered since 2008
- ofsted.org Registered since 2012
- ofsted.info Registered since 2019
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.