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ledger · ownership

Organization
Executive Office of the President
Suborganization
White House Office
Domain type
Federal - Executive
Location
Washington, DC
Security contact
First appeared
2026-05-06T07:11Z
in the public .gov registry

Source: cisagov/dotgov-data · current-federal.csv

ledger · history

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    https://passports.gov/ now redirects off-domain to https://travel.state.gov/en/passports.html

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    passports.gov — registered in CISA's public .gov registry to the Executive Office of the President (White House Office) — changed its HTTP redirect target from an access/login wall (auth.passports.gov) to U.S. Department of State passport content. Earliest Wayback capture of the State Dept redirect: 2026-07-03; as recently as 2026-06-09 it still redirected to the auth wall. Observational (existence-only); the auth wall was never entered.

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  • high

    high-risk scorecard for https://passports.gov/: page loads trackers but has no linked privacy notice; session replay detected (records clicks/scrolls/keystrokes)

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  • high

    new subdomain auth.passports.gov — high-signal subdomain label auth on passports.gov (Executive Office of the President / White House Office)

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    new subdomain photo.staging.passports.gov — high-signal subdomain labels photo, staging on passports.gov (Executive Office of the President / White House Office)

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    new subdomain photos.passports.gov — high-signal subdomain label photos on passports.gov (Executive Office of the President / White House Office)

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    new subdomain photo.passports.gov — high-signal subdomain label photo on passports.gov (Executive Office of the President / White House Office)

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  • notable

    new subdomain api.passports.gov — subdomain label api on passports.gov (Executive Office of the President / White House Office)

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  • high

    new subdomain staging.passports.gov — high-signal subdomain label staging on passports.gov (Executive Office of the President / White House Office)

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  • info

    new subdomain staging-api.passports.gov — new subdomain of passports.gov (Executive Office of the President / White House Office)

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  • info

    new subdomain api2.passports.gov — new subdomain of passports.gov (Executive Office of the President / White House Office)

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  • high

    watched organization "Executive Office of the President" on new domain passports.gov

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lookout · subdomains (from Certificate Transparency logs)

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  • notable
    api.passports.gov

    subdomain label api on passports.gov (Executive Office of the President / White House Office)

  • info
    api2.passports.gov

    new subdomain of passports.gov (Executive Office of the President / White House Office)

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    auth.passports.gov

    high-signal subdomain label auth on passports.gov (Executive Office of the President / White House Office)

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    photo.passports.gov

    high-signal subdomain label photo on passports.gov (Executive Office of the President / White House Office)

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    photo.staging.passports.gov

    high-signal subdomain labels photo, staging on passports.gov (Executive Office of the President / White House Office)

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    photos.passports.gov

    high-signal subdomain label photos on passports.gov (Executive Office of the President / White House Office)

  • info
    staging-api.passports.gov

    new subdomain of passports.gov (Executive Office of the President / White House Office)

  • high
    staging.passports.gov

    high-signal subdomain label staging on passports.gov (Executive Office of the President / White House Office)

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floodlight · tracker scorecard

  • notable
    https://passports.gov/
    9 trackerssession replay offreverse-proxy noprivacy notice present

receipts · snapshots & removals

Snapshots on file; no removals detected.

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redtape · privacy filings

No reviewed privacy-filing gaps for this domain.

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