acquire.com — domain analysis
acquire.com describes itself as "Buy or sell a profitable online business in as little as 90 days. 500k+ qualified buyers, 1,000s of vetted listings. M&A advisory, legal help, escrow, & more.". It was registered in 2000, served from Mountain View, United States. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 2 of 6 common security headers, 3 tracking scripts.
What is acquire.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:
- acquire ×49
- business ×21
- support ×17
- process ×17
- sell ×15
- experience ×15
- saas ×13
- team ×13
- platform ×13
- selling ×12
Does acquire.com publish the usual trust pages?
Found: about, privacy, terms. Not found at the usual addresses:
contact.
These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.
How does acquire.com compare with other domains analysed here?
Measured against the 11 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 64% of them (median 236ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 44% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 70% of them |
Related domains in this index
Analysed domains built on a similar stack:
Other analysed domains served from the same country:
When was acquire.com registered?
acquire.com was registered on 12 December 2000, which makes it about 25 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 GoDaddy.com, LLC.
Registration runs until 12 December 2030.
The domain carries 4 registry locks, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 12 December 2000 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 12 December 2030 |
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
| Registry status | client delete prohibited, client renew prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited |
Where is acquire.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Mountain View, United States.
The network is operated by Google LLC (AS54113 Fastly, 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 acquire.com running on?
acquire.com exposes 2 identifiable technologies: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager.
Visitor tracking is present (Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager), so this homepage is not cookie-free.
- Google Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
How does the homepage respond?
The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.
At 141ms to first byte this response is fast for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML weighs 339KB, which is ordinary for a homepage.
The HTML is compressed with gzip.
| Server header | not disclosed |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 346,716 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 158 characters is present.
There are 2 H1 headings. One is conventional; several dilute the signal about what the page is primarily about.
1 of 56 images carry no alt attribute, which leaves them unreadable to screen readers and uninterpretable to image search.
| Title | Buy & Sell Profitable Online Businesses | Acquire.com (53 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | Buy or sell a profitable online business in as little as 90 days. 500k+ qualified buyers, 1,000s of vetted listings. M&A advisory, legal help, escrow, & more. (158 chars) |
| H1 | JavaScript Required (2 on the page) |
| Canonical | not set |
| Open Graph title | Buy & Sell Profitable Online Businesses | Acquire.com |
| Headings / images | 3 H2s, 56 images (1 without alt text) |
Is acquire.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by Google Trust Services and is
valid until 2026-11-08, which is 34 days from the date of this check. It covers
3 hostnames.
- acquire.com
- app.acquire.com
- www.acquire.com
The certificate has 34 days left to run.
Which security headers does it set?
2 of 6 are set (HSTS, Content Security Policy). Absent: X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
| Header | Set | Value |
|---|---|---|
| HSTS | yes | max-age=31556926 |
| Content Security Policy | yes | frame-ancestors 'none' |
| X-Content-Type-Options | no | — |
| X-Frame-Options | no | — |
| Referrer-Policy | no | — |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for acquire.com?
| IP addresses | 199.36.158.100 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | 199.36.158.100 |
| Name servers | ns78.domaincontrol.com, ns77.domaincontrol.com |
| Mail (MX) | alt3.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 10), alt2.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 5), alt1.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 5), aspmx.l.google.com (pri 1), alt4.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 10) |
| SPF | v=spf1 include:_spf.firebasemail.com include:_spf.google.com include:19985776.spf05.hubspotemail.net ~all |
| TXT records | 4 |
acquire.com resolves to a single address, so there is no DNS-level redundancy.
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 199.36.158.100, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for acquire.com?
DNS is operated by GoDaddy rather than self-hosted name servers.
Mail is handled by Google Workspace.
No AAAA records are published, so the site is reachable over IPv4 only.
What else is worth noting about acquire.com?
1 of 1 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.
4 email addresses appear in the homepage markup, where address-harvesting crawlers will find them.
Can acquire.com be spoofed in email?
DMARC is set to quarantine, so mail failing authentication is sent to spam rather than the inbox.
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 does robots.txt allow?
robots.txt is 208 bytes and names
1 user-agent group.
It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.
Sitemaps declared:
- https://acquire.com/sitemap.xml
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?
No JSON-LD or microdata was found on the homepage.
What does acquire.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 3 third-party hosts (facebook.com, fonts.googleapis.com, googletagmanager.com). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
No cookies are set on first load.
The page links or refers to X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
Does acquire.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://acquire.com/, so the site settles on one canonical hostname.
How easily can acquire.com be crawled?
A sitemap index is served at https://acquire.com/sitemap.xml listing 2 entries.
A deliberately invalid URL correctly returns HTTP 404, so missing pages will not be indexed.
What tracking does acquire.com run?
3 tracking scripts detected: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel.
No consent management platform was detected alongside them. Where GDPR or the ePrivacy Directive applies, analytics and advertising scripts generally need consent before they load.
How does acquire.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.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
56 images on the homepage, 0 of them lazy-loaded (0%).
All image references use JPEG, PNG or GIF. WebP or AVIF typically cut image weight substantially at the same visual quality.
No srcset attributes are used, so every device is served the same image size regardless of screen.
Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which means every page view also contacts Google. Self-hosting removes that dependency.
The page pulls 3 external stylesheets and 7 external scripts, with 2 carrying defer or async.
No preconnect hints are declared despite third-party scripts being present, so each new origin pays a full connection setup before it can deliver anything.
Responses carry Varnish/Fastly edge and edge cache edge headers, so content is served from a CDN rather than straight from the origin.
Is acquire.com accessible and current?
The page uses 6 landmark elements and 0 ARIA attributes.
The viewport tag disables pinch-zoom. That fails WCAG 1.4.4 and is a genuine problem for anyone who needs to enlarge text.
No skip-to-content link was found, which keyboard users rely on to bypass navigation.
Can search engines index acquire.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.
The homepage carries 62 internal and 8 external links across 6 outside hosts.
Visible text is only 4.3% of the HTML, which indicates the page is assembled in the browser rather than served as content.
The heading outline skips 2 levels, which breaks the document structure screen readers navigate by.
How is acquire.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: public, max-age=3600.
HTTP/3 is advertised via alt-svc, so modern browsers will upgrade to QUIC after the first visit.
A web app manifest is declared, so the site is installable as a progressive web app.
The TLS certificate also covers 2 subdomains: app.acquire.com, www.acquire.com.
- app.acquire.com
- www.acquire.com
Frequently asked questions
Does acquire.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 2 of 6. The ones not present are: X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
Does acquire.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 acquire.com built with?
The homepage exposes these fingerprints: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager. 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.
I own acquire.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 4 October 2026.
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