NOWnews今日新聞

nownews.com

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In its own wordsNOWnews今日新聞《NOWnews今日新聞》(www.nownews.com)於2008年4月正式上線,是臺灣第一個,同時也是臺灣最大、最即時的網路原生新聞網站。由今日傳媒股份有限公司經營,為數位媒體領導品牌。最大股東分別是美國上市公司NDMT和遊戲橘子(Gamania),公司股東結構健全,致力於打造華人世界最具影響力的新聞媒體。

NOWnews今日新聞 (nownews.com) is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 2003. It is built with Bootstrap, Java and jQuery; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

Among the top 10K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #15,765 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #15,069

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#15,765list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 10,000Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#15,069list of 8 Oct 2026

Built with jQuery, OWL Carousel and Bootstrap and 1 more.

  • jQueryJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 108
    <script src="https://www.nownews.com/NOWnews/js.20261013063647/jquery-3.7.0.min.js">
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  • OWL CarouselJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 1413
    <script src="https://www.nownews.com/NOWnews/js.20261013063647/owl.carousel.min.js">
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  • BootstrapCSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 1412
    <script src="https://www.nownews.com/NOWnews/js.20261013063647/bootstrap.min.js">
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  • JavaLanguageShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    set-cookie: JSESSIONID=…
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Everything else it uses (7)

Around it: CDN, DNS, Email, Tag manager and more.

5 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

Signals, not a judgement: missing details are common on small, honest sites.

  • Domain registered29 Oct 2003, 22 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsEmail on the home pageFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 1355Masked for privacy. An email address or phone number can belong to a person, and data protection law, such as the EU’s GDPR, asks us to keep only what we need: that the page lists one, and where.
    <a href="mailto:n•••@newsmedia.gamania.com?subject=NOWnews合作提案">合作提案</a>
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  • Privacy policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • TermsLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNoted
Every signal we looked at

On the site

  • Contact pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • About pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • TermsLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Contact detailsEmail on the home pageFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 1355Masked for privacy. An email address or phone number can belong to a person, and data protection law, such as the EU’s GDPR, asks us to keep only what we need: that the page lists one, and where.
    <a href="mailto:n•••@newsmedia.gamania.com?subject=NOWnews合作提案">合作提案</a>
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  • Company detailsName: NOWnews 今日新聞, address givenFound
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers1 analytics and advertising tool: Google Ad ManagerNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNotedCloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filter
  • Domain registered29 Oct 2003, 22 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings3 of 6 in placePartly
  • Email protectionPartly protected against forged emailPartlyDNS records

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What it is

Website Summary

It calls itself “NOWnews今日新聞”.

In its own wordsNOWnews今日新聞《NOWnews今日新聞》(www.nownews.com)於2008年4月正式上線,是臺灣第一個,同時也是臺灣最大、最即時的網路原生新聞網站。由今日傳媒股份有限公司經營,為數位媒體領導品牌。最大股東分別是美國上市公司NDMT和遊戲橘子(Gamania),公司股東結構健全,致力於打造華人世界最具影響力的新聞媒體。

The page doesn’t show enough to say what kind of site it is (a shop, a blog, an app…).

Who is behind it

  • structured dataNOWnews 今日新聞
  • copyright line今日傳媒(股)公司
  • WikidataNOWnews

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Based in Neihu District, Taiwan.

Its Facebook, Instagram and YouTube accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 42
"name": "NOWnews 今日新聞"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 1398
© 今日傳媒(股)公司版權所有,非經授權,不許轉載本網站內容 © 2026 NOWNEWS.com.All Rights Reserved.
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q10883984: NOWnews
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Each name is quoted from its source. A brand and the company that owns it often go by different names.

More about it: Wikidata, profiles, AI use, page facts

In Wikidata

  • NOWnews: news website based in Taiwan · since 2008

Wikidata, the free knowledge base behind Wikipedia, lists this domain as the official website of this item. Volunteers write it; each item shows its sources.

Find them on

The profiles its home page links. We haven’t checked who runs them.

AI use

  • AI training: names Google-Extended, meta-externalagent and FacebookBot with rules for some pages.
  • AI assistants: may read it for the people who ask them.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 1
User-agent: Google-Extended
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 5
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 7
User-agent: FacebookBot
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What its robots.txt and robots tags ask of AI crawlers. Each crawler chooses whether to follow it.

Site name
NOWnews今日新聞
Language
Chinese (zh-TW)
What it tells search engines
Organization, WebSite

Named in its structured data

  • OrganizationNOWnews 今日新聞Taipei, Taiwan

Read from what the page says about itself; we haven’t checked whether it’s true.

Built with AI?

AI Website Detector

No AI builder traces found.

Coding tools such as Cursor leave no traces, so this doesn’t mean a person made it.

AI traces: None found

How we know

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Score breakdown

Site Score

89 of 100: strong trust signals.

How established and checkable it is; AI traces carry no weight.

89OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections12 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 30no contact page link · email and phone given · privacy policy linked · terms linked · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · about page linked
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 22 years ago
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 10K in a popularity list
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections12 / 15loads over HTTPS · doesn’t send visitors to HTTPS · always uses HTTPS · protective settings
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10site name matches the domain · describes itself · tells search engines what it is

A high score isn’t a promise that a business is honest. How the score works.

Domain history

Domain History

Registered in 2003.

  1. Domain registeredRDAP
  2. This scanCheckAnySite

The web archive couldn’t be reached; we’ll ask it again. Why can this be empty?

Changes, earlier scans and alerts
Since our previous scan
This is our first scan of the site.

How we scanned it

Only from what anyone can see: the site’s public pages and public records.

  • Politely. Our scanner, CheckAnySiteBot, says who it is and follows the site’s robots.txt.
  • With sources. Every fact above says where it came from and when.
  • Without guessing. When we couldn’t check something, we say so.
This scan, in numbers

928 checks on 28 Oct 2026, with version 0.5.0 of our checks and version 1.1 of the score.

How we work · What each version changed · About our scanner

Questions about nownews.com

What is nownews.com?

NOWnews今日新聞 describes itself: “《NOWnews今日新聞》(www.nownews.com)於2008年4月正式上線,是臺灣第一個,同時也是臺灣最大、最即時的網路原生新聞網站。由今日傳媒股份有限公司經營,為數位媒體領導品牌。最大股東分別是美國上市公司NDMT和遊戲橘子(Gamania),公司股東結構健全,致力於打造華人世界最具影響力的新聞媒體。” See the evidence

How old is nownews.com?

Its domain was registered on 29 Oct 2003, 22 years ago. See the evidence

What is nownews.com built with?

It is built with Bootstrap, Java and jQuery; we found 11 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is nownews.com?

It is among the top 10,000 sites, by Tranco, Chrome UX Report and Majestic Million. See the evidence

Was nownews.com made with AI?

We found no traces of an AI site builder. That doesn’t prove a person built it: AI coding assistants leave no traces. See the evidence

Who is behind nownews.com?

NOWnews 今日新聞, named by its structured data and Wikidata. See the evidence

More sites near it in popularity

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What this scan can’t tell you
  • Whether the business is real, honest or delivers what it sells.
  • Whether a site was made with AI when no traces were left: coding assistants and hand edits leave none.
  • How many people visit: we show popularity bands from public lists, not visits.
  • Anything beyond the home page as it was at the time of the scan.

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