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How is aol.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 31 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 410 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 aol.com looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
200
410 ms · ends at www.aol.com
HTTPS
197 d
left on a Amazon certificate
Age
31 years
registered 1995-06-22
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records5 record types
A3.234.238.144
100.62.160.29
54.166.40.93
MX10 mx-aol.mail.gm0.yahoodns.net
NSns-1271.awsdns-30.org
ns-1805.awsdns-33.co.uk
ns-220.awsdns-27.com
ns-867.awsdns-44.net
TXT'4a751cdeec084ee2bc9e2cb2e94ba8af'
_globalsign-domain-verification=5qAMTVb8BnarU3IjRaQnyRZI3P1sfIcYF2K1VaJdS4
_globalsign-domain-verification=A8559NR8s5jDgfIOiI89M1Ln_KDohG1F-obiPNLdkK
_globalsign-domain-verification=W22K-ATZWdBDmzMIsFCF5smJ_T5-7Zl-JDnV8qNe-i
_pafbrznnujseftd40lkl71fuytbxzak
facebook-domain-verification=ervjrx9gun9l4uhc6o4d05p65r2824
google-site-verification=A3SjuAs-uLOfPY5VcSW-yJJIi6gjOC3HRXsZ3FhVaLs
google-site-verification=BNb5wrsmDzzWz2SS35sCfIYkrZOQWWY-3ZdY-pgip4k
google-site-verification=NqM_NKWhteDHiJCOfhlQqKT4nxexIeFRie5MmWA1RBk
google-site-verification=Urd7MSITHYcx-rtP1PTVfeiC8RZ2QaKF_6bd6mW_51U
google-site-verification=cr9372hSYxSXo52q8ME19Decs88FL4U8DGETLFhcD9A
google-site-verification=ducLuHpystFIiiH_U1devs1CL3q7nhkjCV3BQQtxwWM
google-site-verification=rrvUvV8gUjL0YugQKfcRVnaeQSBJT50UYL_CRwTdKAc
google-site-verification=vWa8DccevgR6DN9S4K4ydAcrlRn7SCXHx6sQRmqElLc
knowbe4-site-verification=bc3830115833f4f956e30f506f1da8c8
v=spf1 redirect=_spf.mail.yahoo.com
CAA{'type': 'CAA', 'iodef': 'mailto:security@teamaol.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'amazon.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'amazonaws.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'amazontrust.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'awstrust.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'digicert.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'globalsign.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'letsencrypt.org', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'sectigo.com', 'critical': 0}
RegistrationGoDaddy.com, LLC
registrarGoDaddy.com, LLC
registered1995-06-22
expires2027-11-23
last changed2026-05-25
nameserversns-1271.awsdns-30.org
ns-1805.awsdns-33.co.uk
ns-220.awsdns-27.com
ns-867.awsdns-44.net
statusclient delete prohibited
client renew prohibited
client transfer prohibited
client update prohibited
registered 1995-06-22expires 2027-11-23
HTTPS certificate197 days left
validyes
issuerAmazon
coversaol.com
protocolTLSv1.3
issued 2026-10-26expires 2027-05-11
DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → com → aol.com
Email authenticationfair
SPFwarning v=spf1 redirect=_spf.mail.yahoo.com
DMARCpass policy reject
DKIMnone of 1 common selectors

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

Security scoregrade B · 168/205
Basic Security
20/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled
Record Security
38/45missing: SPF 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 · 11 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop3.234.238.144Barracuda3.234.238.144UCEPROTECT Level 13.234.238.144SpamCop100.62.160.29Barracuda100.62.160.29UCEPROTECT Level 1100.62.160.29SpamCop54.166.40.93Barracuda54.166.40.93UCEPROTECT Level 154.166.40.93

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=aol.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=aol.com"

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

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