surfshark.com
surfshark.com describes itself as "Protect your devices, identity, & data ● Scam & phishing protection ● Identity theft protection ● Device security ● Secure connection ● Fast VPN". It is built on WordPress, registered in 2007, served from Toronto, Canada. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 2 of 6 common security headers.
What is surfshark.com about?
The words appearing most often on the homepage, excluding common filler, are a rough indication of subject matter rather than a description of the business:
- data ×14
- surfshark ×13
- online ×7
- devices ×7
- identity ×6
- theft ×6
- antivirus ×5
- connection ×5
- personal ×4
- email ×4
Does surfshark.com publish the usual trust pages?
All four of the pages a established business normally publishes were found: about, contact, privacy and terms. These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may publish them elsewhere.
How does surfshark.com compare with other domains analysed here?
Measured against the 79 domains in this index. This is a small, self-selected sample — the domains people happened to look up — not a representative sample of the web.
| Response time | Faster than 85% of them (median 657ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 89% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 87% of them |
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Sharing a network means sharing a host or CDN. It implies nothing about a relationship between the sites themselves.
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Other analysed domains served from the same country:
When was surfshark.com registered?
surfshark.com was registered on 30 September 2007, which makes it about 19 years old.
A registration this old means the domain has been renewed repeatedly, which costs money every year and is not something abandoned or disposable projects tend to do.
The registrar of record is TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com.
Registration runs until 30 September 2031.
The domain carries 1 registry lock, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 30 September 2007 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 30 September 2031 |
| Registrar | TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com |
| Registry status | client transfer prohibited |
Where is surfshark.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Toronto, Canada.
The network is operated by Cloudflare, Inc. (AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.).
Hosting location describes where the responding server sits, not where the business is. A CDN will report its nearest edge rather than the origin.
What is surfshark.com running on?
surfshark.com exposes 3 identifiable technologies: WordPress, Next.js, Cloudflare.
WordPress is identifiable from its asset paths, so the platform is public knowledge regardless of whether the version is hidden. That matters mainly for patching discipline: known-platform sites are scanned automatically and constantly.
The build output indicates a server-rendered JavaScript framework, which means the HTML served to crawlers is generated ahead of time rather than assembled in the browser.
Cloudflare sits in front of the origin, so the server header, IP addresses and response timing describe the edge rather than the machine actually running the site.
- WordPress
- Next.js
- Cloudflare
How does the homepage respond?
The server answered with HTTP 200 over HTTPS.
At 109ms to first byte this response is fast for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML weighs 124KB, which is ordinary for a homepage.
The HTML is compressed with gzip.
| Server header | cloudflare |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 127,374 bytes |
| Declared language | en |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title is 53 characters, inside the range that displays without truncation.
A meta description of 144 characters is present.
All 31 images on the homepage have alt attributes.
| Title | Surfshark: identity & scam protection, antivirus, VPN (53 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | Protect your devices, identity, & data ● Scam & phishing protection ● Identity theft protection ● Device security ● Secure connection ● Fast VPN (144 chars) |
| H1 | Online security starts with a VPN (1 on the page) |
| Canonical | https://surfshark.com |
| Open Graph title | Surfshark: identity & scam protection, antivirus, VPN |
| Headings / images | 3 H2s, 31 images (0 without alt text) |
Is surfshark.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by Google Trust Services and is valid until 2026-12-14, which is 71 days from the date of this check. It covers 2 hostnames.
- surfshark.com
- *.surfshark.com
The certificate has 71 days left to run.
It covers 2 hostnames, so it was issued for this site specifically.
Which security headers does it set?
2 of 6 are set (HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options). Absent: Content Security Policy, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
With no Content Security Policy, any script that reaches the page — including one injected through a compromised third-party dependency — runs with full access to it.
| Header | Set | Value |
|---|---|---|
| HSTS | yes | max-age=5184000; includeSubDomains |
| Content Security Policy | no | — |
| X-Content-Type-Options | yes | nosniff |
| X-Frame-Options | no | — |
| Referrer-Policy | no | — |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for surfshark.com?
| IP addresses | 104.18.120.34, 104.18.121.34, 2606:4700::6812:7922, 2606:4700::6812:7822 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | 104.18.120.34, 104.18.121.34 |
| Name servers | dawn.ns.cloudflare.com, dale.ns.cloudflare.com |
| Mail (MX) | alt2.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 5), aspmx.l.google.com (pri 1), alt3.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 10), alt4.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 10), alt1.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 5) |
| SPF | v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.hushmail.com include:sendgrid.net ip4:65.39.178.0/24 a mx include:mail.zendesk.com include:icloud.com ~all |
| TXT records | 20 |
surfshark.com resolves to 4 addresses, which indicates load balancing or a CDN rather than a single origin server.
Mail is handled by 5 exchangers.
An SPF record is published, giving receiving servers a rule for which hosts may send as this domain.
Reverse DNS resolves to 104.18.120.34, 104.18.121.34, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for surfshark.com?
DNS is operated by Cloudflare rather than self-hosted name servers.
Mail is handled by Google Workspace.
The domain publishes AAAA records and accepts connections over IPv6.
What else is worth noting about surfshark.com?
1 email address appears in the homepage markup, where address-harvesting crawlers will find it.
Can surfshark.com be spoofed in email?
DMARC is set to reject, the strictest setting: mail that fails authentication is refused outright. This is the configuration that actually stops domain spoofing.
No CAA records are published, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for this domain.
The zone is not DNSSEC-signed. That is still the norm for most domains, but it means DNS answers cannot be cryptographically verified.
What else does surfshark.com publish?
A security.txt file is published, giving security researchers a documented way to report vulnerabilities. Very few sites bother.
What does robots.txt allow?
robots.txt is 397 bytes and names 1 user-agent group. It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.
No sitemap is declared in robots.txt.
AI crawler policy
robots.txt names no AI crawlers specifically, so they fall under whatever rule
applies to User-agent: *.
What structured data does the homepage publish?
- Organization
- ImageObject
- Person
- PostalAddress
The homepage publishes 4 structured data types: Organization, ImageObject, Person, PostalAddress.
What does surfshark.com load from third parties?
The homepage loads no resources from third-party hosts at all, which is rare and means visiting it tells no other company that you did.
1 cookie is set before any interaction (__cf_bm).
The page links or refers to X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
| Cookie | Secure | HttpOnly | SameSite |
|---|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | yes | yes | none |
Does surfshark.com settle on one address?
Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, so visitors who type the bare address still land on the secure version.
The www address redirects to https://surfshark.com/, so the site settles on one canonical hostname.
How easily can surfshark.com be crawled?
A sitemap index is served at https://surfshark.com/sitemap.xml listing 9 entries.
The most recent lastmod date is 2026-10-01.
A deliberately invalid URL correctly returns HTTP 404, so missing pages will not be indexed.
What tracking does surfshark.com run?
No analytics or advertising trackers were detected on the homepage of surfshark.com, which is unusual for a commercial site.
How does surfshark.com look when shared?
All five social preview tags are present, so links shared to social platforms and chat apps will render with a title, description and image.
The page declares 18 hreflang alternates (x-default, de, en, es, fr, it, nl, pl, pt, fi, tr, ru), so it targets more than one language or region.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
31 images on the homepage, 30 of them lazy-loaded (97%).
All image references use JPEG, PNG or GIF. WebP or AVIF typically cut image weight substantially at the same visual quality.
The page pulls 3 external stylesheets and 21 external scripts, with 21 carrying defer or async.
Responses carry Cloudflare edge headers, so content is served from a CDN rather than straight from the origin.
Is surfshark.com accessible and current?
The page uses 3 landmark elements and 50 ARIA attributes.
No skip-to-content link was found, which keyboard users rely on to bypass navigation.
Can search engines index surfshark.com?
Nothing on the homepage prevents indexing: no noindex is set in the robots meta tag or the X-Robots-Tag header.
The homepage carries 76 internal and 12 external links across 11 outside hosts.
Visible text makes up 5.3% of the HTML.
How is surfshark.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate.
HTTP/3 is advertised via alt-svc, so modern browsers will upgrade to QUIC after the first visit.
Frequently asked questions
Does surfshark.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 2 of 6. The ones not present are: Content Security Policy, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
Does surfshark.com allow AI crawlers?
robots.txt names no AI crawler specifically, so they fall under the wildcard rule, which does not disallow them.
What is surfshark.com built with?
The homepage exposes these fingerprints: WordPress, Next.js, Cloudflare. A site behind a CDN or rendered server-side may use more than it reveals.
Where does this data come from?
Every figure was measured by our own server on 4 October 2026: DNS lookups, one HTTPS request to the homepage, a TLS handshake and a request for robots.txt. No third-party SEO API is involved.
Is any of this traffic or authority data?
No. Traffic, authority and ranking figures cannot be measured by inspecting a domain, only modelled. Everything here is a direct observation.
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