rentalcars.com — domain analysis
rentalcars.com is a live website, registered in 1996, served from Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 1 of 6 common security headers. 405HTTP status…
rentalcars.com is a live website, registered in 1996, served from Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 1 of 6 common security headers.
What is rentalcars.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:
- javascript ×3
- captcha ×2
- puzzle ×2
Does rentalcars.com publish the usual trust pages?
None of about, contact, privacy or terms could be found at their usual addresses.
That is common for small or single-purpose sites, and it is also what a disposable
site looks like, so it is worth noting rather than concluding from.
These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.
How does rentalcars.com compare with other domains analysed here?
Measured against the 69 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 77% of them (median 408ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 42% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 84% of them |
Related domains in this index
Analysed domains sharing the same network (AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc.):
Sharing a network means sharing a host or CDN. It implies nothing about a
relationship between the sites themselves.
Other analysed domains served from the same country:
When was rentalcars.com registered?
rentalcars.com was registered on 23 September 1996, which makes it about 30 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 MarkMonitor Inc..
Registration runs until 22 September 2028.
The domain carries 6 registry locks, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 23 September 1996 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 22 September 2028 |
| Registrar | MarkMonitor Inc. |
| Registry status | client delete prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited, server delete prohibited, server transfer prohibited, server update prohibited |
Where is rentalcars.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
The network is operated by AWS CloudFront (GLOBAL) (AS16509 Amazon.com, 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 rentalcars.com running on?
No platform, framework or analytics fingerprints were found in the homepage markup of rentalcars.com. That usually means hand-written HTML, an uncommon stack, or a page assembled entirely at the edge.
No recognisable platform, framework or analytics fingerprints were found in the homepage markup.
How does the homepage respond?
The server answered with HTTP 405 over
HTTPS.
At 161ms to first byte this response is fast for a homepage measured from a single European location.
At 2KB the HTML is unusually small, which typically means the page builds itself client-side after load.
No compression is applied to the HTML. Enabling gzip or brotli usually cuts transfer size by around two thirds at no cost to the server.
| Server header | CloudFront |
|---|---|
| Compression | none |
| Page size | 2,129 bytes |
| Declared language | en |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title is only 18 characters, which is short enough that it probably is not describing the page so much as naming it.
There is no meta description, so the snippet shown in search results is assembled by the search engine from whatever text it considers relevant.
| Title | Human Verification (18 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | — none — (0 chars) |
| H1 | JavaScript is disabled (1 on the page) |
| Canonical | not set |
| Open Graph title | not set |
| Headings / images | 0 H2s, 0 images (0 without alt text) |
Is rentalcars.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by DigiCert Inc and is
valid until 2026-12-31, which is 87 days from the date of this check. It covers
2 hostnames.
- *.rentalcars.com
- rentalcars.com
The certificate has 87 days left to run.
It covers 2 hostnames, so it was issued for this site specifically.
Which security headers does it set?
1 of 6 are set (HSTS). Absent: Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, 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=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload |
| Content Security Policy | no | — |
| X-Content-Type-Options | no | — |
| X-Frame-Options | no | — |
| Referrer-Policy | no | — |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for rentalcars.com?
| IP addresses | 3.174.46.26, 3.174.46.67, 3.174.46.8, 3.174.46.64 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | server-3-174-46-26.fra60.r.cloudfront.net, server-3-174-46-67.fra60.r.cloudfront.net |
| Name servers | ns-1959.awsdns-52.co.uk, ns-508.awsdns-63.com, ns-716.awsdns-25.net, ns-1288.awsdns-33.org |
| Mail (MX) | mxb-0032a201.gslb.pphosted.com (pri 10), mxa-0032a201.gslb.pphosted.com (pri 10) |
| SPF | v=spf1 include:%{ir}.%{v}.%{d}.spf.has.pphosted.com include:mail.zendesk.com ~all |
| TXT records | 10 |
rentalcars.com resolves to 4 addresses, which indicates load balancing or a CDN rather than a single origin server.
Mail is handled by 2 exchangers.
An SPF record is published, giving receiving servers a rule for which hosts may send as this domain.
Reverse DNS resolves to server-3-174-46-26.fra60.r.cloudfront.net, server-3-174-46-67.fra60.r.cloudfront.net, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for rentalcars.com?
DNS is operated by Amazon Route 53 rather than self-hosted name servers.
Mail exchangers point at hosts that do not match any major provider, which usually means self-hosted or niche-provider mail.
No AAAA records are published, so the site is reachable over IPv4 only.
What else is worth noting about rentalcars.com?
2 of 2 externally hosted scripts carry no subresource integrity hash. If one of those hosts were compromised, the replacement script would run with full access to the page.
Can rentalcars.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 rentalcars.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?
No robots.txt was served. Crawlers treat a missing file as permission to crawl
everything, so this is an open crawl policy by default rather than a blocked one.
What structured data does the homepage publish?
No JSON-LD or microdata was found on the homepage.
What does rentalcars.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 2 third-party hosts (d8c14d4960ca.5b2b76d5.eu-central-1.captcha.awswaf.com, d8c14d4960ca.5b2b76d5.eu-central-1.token.awswaf.com). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
No cookies are set on first load.
Does rentalcars.com settle on one address?
Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, so visitors who type the bare address still land on the secure version.
How easily can rentalcars.com be crawled?
No readable sitemap was found, so crawlers have to discover every page by following links.
A deliberately invalid URL returns HTTP 405 rather than 404.
What tracking does rentalcars.com run?
No analytics or advertising trackers were detected on the homepage of rentalcars.com, which is unusual for a commercial site.
How does rentalcars.com look when shared?
No Open Graph or Twitter Card tags are present. Links shared to social platforms will fall back to whatever the platform can scrape, usually just a bare URL.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
The page pulls 0 external stylesheets and 2 external scripts, with 0 carrying defer or async.
Responses carry Amazon CloudFront and edge cache edge headers, so content is served from a CDN rather than straight from the origin.
Is rentalcars.com accessible and current?
The page uses 0 landmark elements and 0 ARIA attributes.
No skip-to-content link was found, which keyboard users rely on to bypass navigation.
Can search engines index rentalcars.com?
Nothing on the homepage prevents indexing: no noindex is set in the robots meta tag or the X-Robots-Tag header.
No canonical URL is declared, which leaves duplicate addresses of this page to be resolved by the search engine.
Visible text makes up 10.3% of the HTML.
How is rentalcars.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: no-store, max-age=0.
No favicon is declared in the markup.
Frequently asked questions
Does rentalcars.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 1 of 6. The ones not present are: Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
Does rentalcars.com allow AI crawlers?
No robots.txt is served, so nothing is disallowed and AI crawlers are free to read the site.
Where does this data come from?
Every figure was measured by our own server on 5 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.
I own rentalcars.com and want this page removed.
Ask through the contact page on this site, from an address at the domain, and the report will be taken down. It only ever shows what the domain already serves publicly.
Analysed 5 October 2026.
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How we estimate this
Every figure on this page is compiled from the public sources cited above and given as a low–typical–high range rather than a single false-precise number. Where costs vary by location we scale the national typical using published state price levels. We recheck figures on a set schedule and stamp each report with the date last verified. We are independent and are never paid to change a number — see how we price things.
