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How is academia.edu?

Not sure yet risk 10/100

On no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 403 in 80 ms.

Why

02050100
finecarefulhigh risk
  • +10Could not read the domain's registration record.
  • ·Could not check registration; retry before trusting this domain.

Rule-based: domain age, blocklists, TLS. A heuristic, not a guarantee.

How academia.edu looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
403
80 ms
HTTPS
152 d
left on a Amazon certificate
Age
?
creation date not reported
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records5 record types
A52.85.193.121
52.85.193.112
52.85.193.99
52.85.193.70
MX30 aspmx3.googlemail.com
10 aspmx.l.google.com
20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
NSns-1850.awsdns-39.co.uk
ns-225.awsdns-28.com
ns-629.awsdns-14.net
ns-1484.awsdns-57.org
TXTanthropic-domain-verification-00km9h=iGSlgcFVwjf1nqm3iNj3rMriY
ZOOM_verify_Rxzrf9pJxjR7JvgdFlk0Yd
google-site-verification=AdyiRTpxOqZiU8Jd0w8PahsA3_b_OcJgWzn0nfsDMmY
google-site-verification=irss24p48-LJzw7pzMnohWNsA1xgoE9NQ8vq-qcle48
google-site-verification=C-HHtoNA1Dz-djtyVGC5VyPF4jmEWpm4BnxljImSie4
google-site-verification=kUYM5LxN1rlEczyxiwp63widgRuH_IC-P7kRDzFH5TE
MS=03606EEC74485EE7659A765B95BA63F7E2F590A1
google-site-verification=lpjzdQ-e9XKCo3NmQ3bCXpbD1MaufmV0_gd7ObUNAUc
v=spf1 mx include:_spf.google.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:mail.zendesk.com -all
openai-domain-verification=dv-dkibUtORBvVa6pP1h6f5d7RB
google-site-verification=bbNdRV9xC7b5gnrehK88Rxa8TNdYzkZnMyQstWkWw3Q
activeprospect-domain-verification=wIllccKTAz1V+rR5HMpvCQ==
google-site-verification=ZMCHHISWOhk6ndz2l3_k1lILJ4ZbG5eO73VyiIDz-co
google-site-verification=Ry_M11GJFUeZIFqvxYBpOdnlFv5wJER_unuoE3eOJKQ
jamf-site-verification=dp_j3DsUeGI0-7a0dHTkcg
apple-domain-verification=1RjRckbT2g6y1YmT
google-site-verification=4vfGw0yCsksCUdAMWjGuiIkUYiEmO6WBOjBvNxLISgo
CAA{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'pki.goog', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'amazon.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'letsencrypt.org', 'critical': 0}
Registrationregistrar not reported
HTTPS certificate152 days left
validyes
issuerAmazon
covers*.academia.edu, academia.edu
protocolTLSv1.3
issued 2026-09-13expires 2027-03-29
DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → edu → academia.edu
Email authenticationexcellent
SPFpass v=spf1 mx include:_spf.google.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:mail.zendesk.com -all
DMARCpass policy quarantine
DKIMfound: default, google, k1

Whether mail claiming to be from this domain can be checked as genuine.

Security scoregrade A · 180/205
Basic Security
20/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled
Record Security
45/45missing: DKIM Presence
Advanced Security
20/25missing: IPv6 Support
Domain Reputation
50/50
Threat Detection
45/45missing: Domain Age Check
Blocklists0 listings · 14 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop52.85.193.70Barracuda52.85.193.70UCEPROTECT Level 152.85.193.70SpamCop52.85.193.112Barracuda52.85.193.112UCEPROTECT Level 152.85.193.112SpamCop52.85.193.121Barracuda52.85.193.121UCEPROTECT Level 152.85.193.121SpamCop52.85.193.99Barracuda52.85.193.99UCEPROTECT Level 152.85.193.99

Green: clean. Red: listed. Grey: the list did not answer.

Ask it yourself

Agents get this as data. Bought through the API, the checks behind this page cost $0.070: profile $0.025 + trust $0.020 + screenshot $0.020 + site status $0.005.

curl "https://how.is/v1/domain/trust?domain=academia.edu" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $HOWIS_KEY" # or pay per call in USDC (x402), no key: the 402 tells your agent the price curl -i "https://how.is/v1/domain/profile?domain=academia.edu"

MCP: add https://how.is/mcp to Claude, Codex or Cursor (one-line install) and ask for domain_trust on academia.edu. Reference: /llms.txt.

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