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How is akismet.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 21 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 38 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 akismet.com looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
200
38 ms
HTTPS
87 d
left on a Let's Encrypt certificate
Age
21 years
registered 2005-10-11
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records5 record types
A192.0.78.24
192.0.78.25
MX10 mx2.ams.automattic.com
10 mx1.dfw.automattic.com
NSns3.akismet.com
ns2.akismet.com
ns4.akismet.com
ns1.akismet.com
TXTv=spf1 include:_spf.automattic.com include:sendgrid.net include:ariasystems.net include:mail.zendesk.com -all
google-site-verification=EtOJu7eEjs0n1iFlkpg-e6Zo7gupmWqxRBVwWaeruDU
google-site-verification=DZLoR97vlDkw1YUqbLCRXu7tQnJ-8cVnktCsnBwHpCA
CAA{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'letsencrypt.org', 'critical': 0}
RegistrationMarkMonitor Inc.
registrarMarkMonitor Inc.
registered2005-10-11
expires2027-10-11
last changed2025-09-09
ownerREDACTED FOR PRIVACY
nameserversns1.akismet.com
ns2.akismet.com
ns3.akismet.com
ns4.akismet.com
statusclient delete prohibited
client transfer prohibited
client update prohibited
server delete prohibited
server transfer prohibited
server update prohibited
registered 2005-10-11expires 2027-10-11
HTTPS certificate87 days left
validyes
issuerLet's Encrypt
coversakismet.com, dahlstroms.com, silver.damnwolf.net, support.roarkeconstruction.com, terri.damnwolf.net, tls.automattic.com, www.dahlstroms.com
protocolTLSv1.3
issued 2026-10-28expires 2027-01-26
DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → com → akismet.com
Email authenticationgood
SPFpass v=spf1 include:_spf.automattic.com include:sendgrid.net include:ariasystems.net include:mail.zendesk.com -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 · 170/205
Basic Security
10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity
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 · 8 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop192.0.78.24Barracuda192.0.78.24UCEPROTECT Level 1192.0.78.24SpamCop192.0.78.25Barracuda192.0.78.25UCEPROTECT Level 1192.0.78.25

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=akismet.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=akismet.com"

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

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