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How is ahrefs.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 16 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 54 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 ahrefs.com looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
200
54 ms
HTTPS
46 d
left on a Google Trust Services certificate
Age
16 years
registered 2010-11-25
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records6 record types
A104.18.39.141
172.64.148.115
AAAA2606:4700:440d::ac40:9473
2606:4700:440b::6812:278d
MX1 smtp.google.com
NSadam.ns.cloudflare.com
yolanda.ns.cloudflare.com
TXTahrefs-site-verification_7f23931093dcaea634532fe48680938642809321bfb6d2eedcefdc2b180c0690
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tiktok-developers-site-verification=nNjA0IcpClOFdXhOtTktyLW5yxjVINlo
google-site-verification=V7LJIPB3UIcXIvbUUew6uuGP0WRmaOSRQ-I3si_JLBI
notion_verify_t!EL~G#eXVsE0X1T+Gn>8=>.dNj_p#9k774,Y}Xjz!K+J._bZ+ms!?eHE?5tz72.h_kAv%
MS=ms30123980
lovable_verification=5OlFH5uw1DaIdLO8ENO7
openai-domain-verification=dv-F3FZfMZ7tyPEwJUf4jrwRTXa
ZOOM_verify_vwLxddoJ4BT7INd3pWZ29h
facebook-domain-verification=td8brmt3wu6dbdsm0q071p91in8qx8
rippling-domain-verification=ab40c9f77084cd92
linear-domain-verification=p6kyij7memdw
anthropic-domain-verification-e2z6y4=vsM2WEZSOKgqjdfmonv4R11Bn
cursor-domain-verification-g7a9ep=eh80vslD0Dk9aAMP9AnlcfPhI
stripe-verification=5050a531839b76be29b99cc3258d7154e48a08398c8055b83f2a459946a61fb1
stripe-verification=CB383DD55808E99BCC1075D20642A09F2CB558B7F3AA059ACD8C0E8556DB986A
letaido-domain-verification-zhgccj=K4iuIIIGIrzZZj5O7Mfjw8fqy
probo-verification=dc9164e38ce33d0443651434cf3706d3
google-site-verification=K5q-tV3hv4u12bcTGUTuPX9tGJO8bamXuVkoK41nHnI
v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mail.intercom.io include:servers.mcsv.net include:mg-spf.greenhouse.io ~all
stripe-verification=ca8ab9acd029bc87973ee8fb44bbe9869f1766dd5d5eff0c90e67913fcde2060
CAA{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'letsencrypt.org', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'critical': 0, 'issuewild': 'pki.goog; cansignhttpexchanges=yes'}
{'type': 'CAA', 'critical': 0, 'issuewild': 'letsencrypt.org'}
{'type': 'CAA', 'critical': 0, 'issuewild': 'comodoca.com'}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'comodoca.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'critical': 0, 'issuewild': 'digicert.com; cansignhttpexchanges=yes'}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'ssl.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'digicert.com; cansignhttpexchanges=yes', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'critical': 0, 'issuewild': 'ssl.com'}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'pki.goog; cansignhttpexchanges=yes', 'critical': 0}
RegistrationName.com, Inc.
registrarName.com, Inc.
registered2010-11-25
expires2029-11-25
last changed2020-03-26
ownerDomain Protection Services, Inc.
nameserversadam.ns.cloudflare.com
yolanda.ns.cloudflare.com
statusclient transfer prohibited
transfer prohibited
registered 2010-11-25expires 2029-11-25
HTTPS certificate46 days left
validyes
issuerGoogle Trust Services
coversahrefs.com, *.ahrefs.com
protocolTLSv1.3
issued 2026-09-19expires 2026-12-18
DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → com → ahrefs.com
Email authenticationexcellent
SPFpass v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mail.intercom.io include:servers.mcsv.net include:mg-spf.greenhouse.io ~all
DMARCpass policy quarantine
DKIMfound: google, k1, s1, s2, smtp

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

Security scoregrade B · 170/205
Basic Security
10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity
Record Security
45/45missing: DKIM Presence
Advanced Security
20/25missing: Mail Server Configuration
Domain Reputation
50/50
Threat Detection
45/45missing: Domain Age Check
Blocklists0 listings · 8 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop104.18.39.141Barracuda104.18.39.141UCEPROTECT Level 1104.18.39.141SpamCop172.64.148.115Barracuda172.64.148.115UCEPROTECT Level 1172.64.148.115

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=ahrefs.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=ahrefs.com"

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

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