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whitepages.com

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In its own wordsWhitepages: People Search, Phone Numbers & AddressesFounded in 1997, Whitepages is the largest U.S. directory and trusted source for contact info and property data. Find people, phone numbers, addresses, and emails nationwide. Free and premium search across the Whitepages Identity Graph: 350M+ identity records, 4B+ data linkages, 112M+ property records.
PopularityTop 10KBuilt withTailwind CSS, htmx21 technologies foundTrust signals5 of 7 foundDomain registered 30 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

Whitepages (whitepages.com) is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1996. It is built with Tailwind CSS and htmx; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

Popularity

Website Traffic Checker

Among the top 10K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #4,875 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #9,190

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#4,875list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 5,000Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#9,190list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with htmx and Tailwind CSS.

  • htmxJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 1943
    <script src="/static/dist/htmx-1.9.11.min.js">
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  • Tailwind CSSCSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 18
    …tw-contain-paint: ;--tw-contain-style: }/*! tailwindcss v3.4.19 | MIT License | https://tailwindc…
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Everything else it uses (19)

Around it: CDN, Security, DNS, Email and more.

Business tools can stay listed after a site stops using them.

Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

5 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

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

  • Domain registered8 Apr 1996, 30 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsIn structured dataFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 1916Masked 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.
    "email": "s•••@whitepages.com"
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  • Privacy policyLinked from the home page; it turned our scanner away (403), so we couldn’t open itFound
  • TermsLinked from the home page; it turned our scanner away (403), so we couldn’t open itFound
  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNoted
Every signal we looked at

On the site

  • Contact pageLinked from the home page; it turned our scanner away (403), so we couldn’t open itFound
  • About pageLinked from the home page; it turned our scanner away (403), so we couldn’t open itFound
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home page; it turned our scanner away (403), so we couldn’t open itFound
  • TermsLinked from the home page; it turned our scanner away (403), so we couldn’t open itFound
  • Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Contact detailsIn structured dataFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 1916Masked 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.
    "email": "s•••@whitepages.com"
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  • Company detailsName: Whitepages Inc.Partly
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers1 analytics and advertising tool: Google AdsNoted

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 registered8 Apr 1996, 30 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settingsNone in placeNot found
  • Email protectionProtected against forged emailFoundDNS records

A second opinion on its security setup: Mozilla’s HTTP Observatory grades the site when you open it. Ten checks before you buy · A signal looks wrong? Report it

What it is

Website Summary

It calls itself “Whitepages: People Search, Phone Numbers & Addresses”.

In its own wordsWhitepages: People Search, Phone Numbers & AddressesFounded in 1997, Whitepages is the largest U.S. directory and trusted source for contact info and property data. Find people, phone numbers, addresses, and emails nationwide. Free and premium search across the Whitepages Identity Graph: 350M+ identity records, 4B+ data linkages, 112M+ property records.

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 dataWhitepages Inc.
  • copyright lineWhitepages Inc
  • WikidataWhitePages.com

Confirmed by 3 independent sources: structured data, copyright line and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Based in Seattle, United States; founded by Alex Algard.

Its LinkedIn account is the one Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 1916
"name": "Whitepages Inc."
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 1943
© Whitepages Inc.
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q7994404: WhitePages.com
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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

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

  • All crawlers: asks every crawler without rules of its own to stay away, AI ones included.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 29
User-agent: * · Disallow: /
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What its robots.txt and robots tags ask of AI crawlers. Each crawler chooses whether to follow it.

Site name
Whitepages
Language
English (en)
What it tells search engines
Organization, WebSite, WebPage, FAQPage, Question

Named in its structured data

  • OrganizationWhitepages

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

AI site builders leave traces in the sites they make. We look for the traces of 53 of them and show every match with the line it came from, so you can check it yourself.

We test this on 2,312 sites whose makers we know, and publish what we get wrong.

How we test it · Every builder we know · How to tell if a site was built with AI

Score breakdown

Site Score

96 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

96OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page30 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections11 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page30 / 30contact page linked · 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 30 years ago
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 10K in a popularity list
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections11 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends visitors to HTTPS · doesn’t insist on HTTPS · no 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 1996.

  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

929 checks on 15 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

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Built with AI?

None foundWe found no AI builder traces.

“None found” never means “made by a person”: coding assistants leave no traces.

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How popular is it?

Top 10KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#4,875list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 5,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#9,190list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

JavaScript library
htmx
CSS framework
Tailwind CSS

And 19 more around it (CDN, Security, DNS, Email), in the section.

Each with its evidence →

Related

Quick look

Which trust signals does it show?

On the site

  • Contact pageFound
  • About pageFound
  • Privacy policyFound
  • TermsFound
  • Refund or returns policyNot found
  • Contact detailsFound
  • Company detailsPartly
  • Payment providersNoted
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersNot found
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupFound
  • First certificateCouldn’t check
  • DNSSECNot found
  • Certificate authoritiesNot found
  • Security contactCouldn’t check

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

Every signal with its source →

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How does it add up?

96OF 100

Strong trust signals. An open formula (v1.1): every point comes from a finding above. AI traces carry no weight.

TransparencyContact, policies and about page30 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections11 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did →

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Questions about whitepages.com

What is whitepages.com?

Whitepages describes itself: “Founded in 1997, Whitepages is the largest U.S. directory and trusted source for contact info and property data. Find people, phone numbers, addresses, and emails nationwide. Free and premium search…” See the evidence

How old is whitepages.com?

Its domain was registered on 8 Apr 1996, 30 years ago. See the evidence

What is whitepages.com built with?

It is built with Tailwind CSS and htmx; we found 21 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is whitepages.com?

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

Was whitepages.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 whitepages.com?

Whitepages Inc., named by its structured data, its copyright line and Wikidata. See the evidence

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Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 15 Oct 2026. They describe what we found, not the people or business behind the site, and they may be incomplete or out of date. This is information, not advice. Terms · Report an error

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  • 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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