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How is aka.ms?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 16 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 161 ms.

Why

02050100
finecarefulhigh risk
  • ·Nothing in the checks added risk.

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

How aka.ms looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
200
161 ms · ends at witty-sand-06796de1e.2.azurestaticapps.net
HTTPS
80 d
left on a Microsoft Corporation certificate
Age
16 years
registered 2011-01-20
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records4 record types
A23.62.11.211
NSusw1.akam.net
usc4.akam.net
ns1-191.akam.net
asia3.akam.net
asia1.akam.net
ns1-132.akam.net
eur2.akam.net
use9.akam.net
TXTgoogle-site-verification=cQ5sq03lw0OzN4SppJPr8x42KZc55dSQq7ZPSoG6j1A
google-site-verification=_GQK9-TxtgH2f9HIVswdbMDlU0tPtbFlU52rwj3Zfhc
google-site-verification=Xwu-AiYLjcs965PJQuNABfnosFgzJjYXpyrca73p6mY
google-site-verification=4tHGSXxDCXQBLZs7xyGJFLLocgHDg2_UkWzCSgr6RcE
facebook-domain-verification=m6bk15w3gdsau9c5kfjw2a9dyg3321
akaprodcs.azurewebsites.net
v=spf1 -all
google-site-verification=OLIev-Dhm_GjGnF_5WElcY1g9Y0tGBgfqDJeePQPy0k
google-site-verification=V5Rw20DBVKp5R9C3B3lua8ucBMWdn1_pbMNQzb0YRFQ
google-site-verification=hmJHeHI5g2xahyeorI05Mp8n3Q5uuxJVYzgoiR3heXk
google-site-verification=HZlxQO87rQMu1JifSu8YrFxfNSRmLPxjCSYMH9Sv2mU
google-site-verification=K1RiUqmDiLrkprOC6Au9x2jpqtLRfe1GBS4RnHKOSls
CAA{'type': 'CAA', 'critical': 0, 'contactemail': 'caarecordaware@microsoft.com'}
RegistrationCSC Corporate Domains
registrarCSC Corporate Domains
registered2011-01-20
expires2027-01-20
last changed2026-10-08
nameserversusw1.akam.net
use9.akam.net
eur2.akam.net
asia3.akam.net
asia1.akam.net
statusclient transfer prohibited
server transfer prohibited
server update prohibited
server delete prohibited
DS automation disabled
NS automation disabled
registered 2011-01-20expires 2027-01-20
HTTPS certificate80 days left
validyes
issuerMicrosoft Corporation
coversgo2.microsoft.com, go.microsoft.com, www.aka.ms, aka.ms, fast.go.microsoft.com
protocolTLSv1.3
issued 2026-01-23expires 2027-01-18
DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → ms → aka.ms
Email authenticationfair
SPFpass v=spf1 -all
DMARCpass policy reject
DKIMnone of 1 common selectors

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

Security scoregrade B · 160/205
Basic Security
10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity
Record Security
45/45missing: DKIM Presence
Advanced Security
10/25missing: Mail Server Configuration, IPv6 Support
Domain Reputation
50/50
Threat Detection
45/45missing: Domain Age Check
Blocklists0 listings · 5 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop23.62.11.211Barracuda23.62.11.211UCEPROTECT Level 123.62.11.211

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=aka.ms" \ -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=aka.ms"

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

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