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How is afternic.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 28 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 364 ms.

Why

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finecarefulhigh risk
  • ·Nothing in the checks added risk.

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

How afternic.com looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
200
364 ms · ends at www.afternic.com
HTTPS
54 d
left on a GoDaddy.com, Inc. certificate
Age
28 years
registered 1999-03-13
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records4 record types
A216.69.141.26
MX10 afternic-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
NScns2.secureserver.net
cns1.secureserver.net
TXT9fvt8s6ohjq0j8ic8jdk2n1h2p
6ke43alhh4o1b3rg6i96jb3irr
MS=ms79883879 v=spf1 mx ip4:64.95.64.0/24 ip4:63.117.214.0/24 ip4:68.178.232.0/24 ip4:68.178.232.0/24 include:_netblocks.eloqua.com include:spf.messaging.microsoft.com ~all
iciqmuec4q6ahl2aitq0fsdcp
v=spf1 include:secureserver.net include:spf.em.secureserver.net include:_spf.salesforce.com -all
dropbox-domain-verification=4d31gokpjlcx
cmdbcudugljn0mi3nc64ic7div
RegistrationGoDaddy.com, LLC
registrarGoDaddy.com, LLC
registered1999-03-13
expires2027-03-13
last changed2025-07-29
nameserverscns1.secureserver.net
cns2.secureserver.net
statusclient delete prohibited
client renew prohibited
client transfer prohibited
client update prohibited
server delete prohibited
server transfer prohibited
server update prohibited
registered 1999-03-13expires 2027-03-13
HTTPS certificate54 days left
validyes
issuerGoDaddy.com, Inc.
coverswww.afternic.com, afternic.com
protocolTLSv1.3
issued 2025-11-18expires 2026-12-20
DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → com → afternic.com
Email authenticationgood
SPFpass v=spf1 include:secureserver.net include:spf.em.secureserver.net include:_spf.salesforce.com -all
DMARCwarning policy none
DKIMfound: selector1, selector2

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

Security scoregrade C · 143/205
Basic Security
10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity
Record Security
23/45missing: CAA Records, DMARC Record, DKIM Presence
Advanced Security
15/25missing: Mail Server Configuration, IPv6 Support
Domain Reputation
50/50
Threat Detection
45/45missing: Domain Age Check
Blocklists0 listings · 5 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop216.69.141.26Barracuda216.69.141.26UCEPROTECT Level 1216.69.141.26

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=afternic.com" \ -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=afternic.com"

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

Watch afternic.com. DNS read at the source every 5 minutes; certificate, blocklists and expiry every 6 hours. You get an email only when something changes.

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