Sheet DS-00025 · .GOV.UK

Domain statistics for ons.gov.uk

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Surveyor's notes

ons.gov.uk was registered on 1 Jan 1970, which makes it 56 years, 9 months old, and its registrar is Office for National Statistics. The current registration runs until 1 Feb 2027 (120 days away).

Its home page loads at www.ons.gov.uk over a secure HTTPS connection, served from the AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc. network (registered in United States).

The Wayback Machine first captured its home page in December 1996; it ranks 5,269 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.

Surveyed 4 October 2026, 02:35 (UK time). Results are kept for 24 hours.

56 yrsAge
120 daysRenewal due
#5,269Tranco rank
1996First 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: 1 Jan 1970 56 years, 9 months ago
Registration ends: 1 Feb 2027 120 days to go
Last updated: 22 Jul 2026
Registrar: Office for National Statistics
Status codes: active The domain is active.
Nameservers: ns0.bt.net
ns1.bt.net
ns2.bt.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: 19 Dec 1996 29 years, 9 months ago
Latest capture: 3 Oct 2026

Months each year with at least one capture of the home page (0–12). Source: Wayback Machine CDX index.

Year by year

Year	Months captured
1996	1
1997	3
1998	3
1999	3
2000	7
2001	5
2002	7
2003	10
2004	10
2005	4
2006	7
2007	2
2008	3
2009	9
2010	4
2011	11
2012	12
2013	12
2014	12
2015	10
2016	12
2017	12
2018	12
2019	12
2020	12
2021	12
2022	12
2023	12
2024	12
2025	12
2026	10

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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: #5,269 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 – £25,00074 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.

How the points were added up
Factor	Points	Why
Length	+20	The name part is 3 characters long; shorter names are scarcer.
Ending	+3	Domain ending .gov.uk.
Age	+15	Registered 56 years, 9 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 1996.
Popularity	+22	Ranked 5,269 in the Tranco top-million list.
Live website	+4	The home page loads.
HTTPS	+2	A valid, trusted certificate.
Total	74	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): 18.169.209.99
AAAA (IPv6): none
www: CNAME → www.ons.gov.uk.cdn.cloudflare.net
Nameservers: ns2.bt.net
ns1.bt.net
ns0.bt.net
Mail (MX): 0 ons-gov-uk.mail.protection.outlook.com
SPF: v=spf1 include:extspf.ons.gov.uk include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:servers.mcsv.net ~allEnds with ~all; about 3 of the 10 DNS lookups SPF allows are used at the top level (includes can add more).
DMARC: v=DMARC1; p=reject; sp=reject; rua=mailto:dmarc-rua@dmarc.service.gov.ukPolicy: reject; aggregate reports requested
CAA: none — any certificate authority may issue certificates
TXT: 12 TXT records
v=spf1 include:extspf.ons.gov.uk include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:servers.mcsv.net ~all
google-site-verification=Pa8IqEBwNpNpNy2z6Y6hWCjMWnVCntQXlGsz_hrFkyI
apple-domain-verification=HiwZISvk85eEb5to
eyuWmArD1gHOtIbP9S8QUIYp8mzCKS4f67LziRdqdQIgiaKJA+Xn1RvqOJJfVFxv/yuoK52KSZi7uDayOePjWw==
QuoVadis=7a067779-b648-4f55-b7cd-d22b35ca987e
atlassian-domain-verification=xSTx1WHy5mSzkLum90JXpNJqEaKyyPAi63SboeUwixsYifPnzaLremXTjtvThjQu
MS=ms21090673
pexip-ms-tenant-domain-verification=73e0f7c4-5430-4c64-acfb-4012d58762aa
airtable-verification=fe6fcbd53ab9c2ae9c3f39c3afd6aeb9
jamf-site-verification=c-Ekp4yzpzwQBgiLcHj6ow
QuoVadis=f5def41c-8f95-453c-850a-c3bb8424fb93
miro-verification=27f4614c78e7e5ca95026fda3f129de0cdd7115f
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: 18.169.209.99 one of 5 addresses
Network: AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US
AS number: AS16509
IP block: 18.168.0.0/14
Network country: United StatesWhere the network is registered — not necessarily where the server sits.
Reverse DNS: ec2-18-169-209-99.eu-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
CDN / platform hint: Cloudflare

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 automatically

We 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.

Check on Google Check on Bing

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: ons 3 characters
Whole domain: ons.gov.uk 10 characters
Characters: 3 letters, 0 digits, 0 hyphens
Internationalised (IDN): No — plain ASCII
Dictionary: Not a dictionary word (or not one in our list)
Pronounceable: Not by our simple 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.ons.gov.uk/ Visit site
HTTPS: Loads over HTTPS
HTTP → HTTPS: Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS
Redirects (HTTPS): 301 https://ons.gov.uk/
200 https://www.ons.gov.uk/
Redirects (HTTP): 301 http://ons.gov.uk/
200 https://www.ons.gov.uk/
Response time: 159 ms to first byteMeasured once from our server in the UK, for the final page only.
Page weight (HTML): 77 KBThe HTML document only — images, scripts and styles are not counted.
Server header: cloudflare
Page title: Home - Office for National Statistics
Meta description: The UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK.
Language: en
Canonical: none
Robots directives: none (indexable by default)
Generator / CMS hints: none detected
Open Graph tags: Not present
robots.txt: Not found (status 404)
sitemap.xml: Not at /sitemap.xml

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.ons.gov.uk
Trusted: Yes — the chain verifies against standard root certificates
Name match: The certificate covers www.ons.gov.uk
Issuer: Google Trust Services · WE1
Subject: www.ons.gov.uk
Valid from: 3 Sep 2026
Valid until: 2 Dec 2026 59 days left
Lifetime: 90 days
Names covered (SANs): 1
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www.ons.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 set

2/6 recommended security headers present on the home page.

Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS): Set — remembered for 365 days, includes subdomainsTells browsers to use HTTPS only.
Content-Security-Policy: Not setLimits where scripts and other content can load from.
X-Content-Type-Options: Not setStops browsers guessing file types.
Frame protection: 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

0 apparently free

ons.com Registered since 1991
ons.co.uk Registered since 2003
ons.uk Registered since 2019
ons.net Registered since 1996
ons.org Registered since 1996
ons.info Registered since 2001

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.