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How is apnews.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 35 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 403 in 51 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 apnews.com looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
403
51 ms
HTTPS
78 d
left on a Let's Encrypt certificate
Age
35 years
registered 1991-07-12
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records6 record types
A104.16.23.8
104.16.22.8
AAAA2606:4700::6810:1608
2606:4700::6810:1708
MX0 apnews-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
NSbeau.ns.cloudflare.com
edna.ns.cloudflare.com
TXT0ed1fe018a659bc9aaf1cc4909b24caca224f1323c
amazonses:uPNJVwPHtMBNjcVsGvGl/ALzB/80iGwlwpY8b51GpFQ=
facebook-domain-verification=k61hsxl5exwd8tqs2yyf70qxzlnfqr
v=spf1 include:%{i}._ip.%{h}._ehlo.%{d}._spf.vali.email ~all
yahoo-verification-key=XudvBX5cE8wKPWJiOgY66RZ5LyrPJZ2prSAPnxFCTrI=
google-site-verification=32rjWmzlnqZkxw2BVfnRSJu75tJ5OBiRXQ5nPwCG-Fk
google-site-verification=AQvbsGiI8LZV6WWz21PL5Rk1bIbFjnorCLhVUN4lygg
google-site-verification=HX6YuFG0MGVxD_ax6yxlrxMsv326LXOsLWq1U-3rmGQ
google-site-verification=RcYLOmFT9fRWOStZxM9fpGEwEOCKb7evUu8IXC9MhtY
google-site-verification=Zx5fwblUAEBE0AkHI9ZzMStIY-byF7rTDll-WjEo6pA
google-site-verification=bJdvGOsVDI28yqe1Osdmpg5pXQjkaH27xmvcDQhMTUY
google-site-verification=q8ur0tkk9JJUj02dj1o7WnogFK0p2eUELo1NPBBEoWg
stripe-verification=78d284c6563b238744cff7d6a25fd2ca108c18e3a38b3624cd79ab31dc84ce41
VvdBLsIYv6d+dTZl11XR4x8krj2mgiEHIU8WF4y81brQiVlpzXb3PxOfEIqwkUx2Ua3phDiq934CVFXaPEnLxA==
tollbit-domain-verification=3516adf873bda5620e3b93cce732fe3a3fd566f00f1f664337e53f25b2defd5f
CAA{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'amazonaws.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'comodoca.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'digicert.com; cansignhttpexchanges=yes', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'entrust.net', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'letsencrypt.org', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'pki.goog; cansignhttpexchanges=yes', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'ssl.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'critical': 0, 'issuewild': 'awstrust.com'}
{'type': 'CAA', 'critical': 0, 'issuewild': 'comodoca.com'}
{'type': 'CAA', 'critical': 0, 'issuewild': 'digicert.com; cansignhttpexchanges=yes'}
{'type': 'CAA', 'critical': 0, 'issuewild': 'letsencrypt.org'}
{'type': 'CAA', 'critical': 0, 'issuewild': 'pki.goog; cansignhttpexchanges=yes'}
{'type': 'CAA', 'critical': 0, 'issuewild': 'ssl.com'}
RegistrationNetwork Solutions, LLC
registrarNetwork Solutions, LLC
registered1991-07-12
expires2027-07-11
last changed2026-05-12
nameserversbeau.ns.cloudflare.com
edna.ns.cloudflare.com
statusclient transfer prohibited
registered 1991-07-12expires 2027-07-11
HTTPS certificate78 days left
validyes
issuerLet's Encrypt
covers*.apnews.com, apnews.com
protocolTLSv1.3
issued 2026-10-16expires 2027-01-14
DNSSECsecure

Domain is properly signed — chain validated by an independent validating resolver

. → com → apnews.com
Email authenticationexcellent
SPFpass v=spf1 include:%{i}._ip.%{h}._ehlo.%{d}._spf.vali.email ~all
DMARCpass policy reject
DKIMfound: selector1, selector2

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 MultidomainSpamCop104.16.22.8Barracuda104.16.22.8UCEPROTECT Level 1104.16.22.8SpamCop104.16.23.8Barracuda104.16.23.8UCEPROTECT Level 1104.16.23.8

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=apnews.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=apnews.com"

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

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