How is apple.news?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 11 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 60 ms.

Why

02050100

finecarefulhigh risk

·Nothing in the checks added risk.

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

The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.

Site

200

60 ms

HTTPS

38 d

left on a Apple Inc. certificate

Age

11 years

registered 2015-07-06

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records5 record types

A	23.218.217.173 23.218.217.143
AAAA	2600:1408:a:5d::17df:f7d5 2600:1408:a:5d::17df:f7e0
NS	use1.akam.net usw6.akam.net asia2.akam.net ns1-235.akam.net usw2.akam.net asia3.akam.net eur5.akam.net ns1-45.akam.net
TXT	v=spf1 -all f9rk9ctwdq97v70bhkvxjwyt06cwdhsy
CAA	{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'pki.apple.com', 'critical': 0} {'type': 'CAA', 'critical': 0, 'issuewild': 'pki.apple.com'} {'type': 'CAA', 'iodef': 'mailto:contact_pki@apple.com', 'critical': 0}

RegistrationNom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE

registrar	Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE
registered	2015-07-06
expires	2027-07-06
last changed	2026-08-13
nameservers	a8-66.akam.net a26-67.akam.net a11-66.akam.net a6-64.akam.net a7-65.akam.net a1-119.akam.net
status	client delete prohibited client transfer prohibited client update prohibited

registered 2015-07-06expires 2027-07-06

HTTPS certificate38 days left

valid	yes
issuer	Apple Inc.
covers	apple.news, cdn.icloud-content.com, c.apple.news
protocol	TLSv1.3

issued 2026-09-15expires 2026-12-09

DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → news → apple.news

Email authenticationpoor

SPF	pass `v=spf1 -all`
DMARC	none
DKIM	none of 1 common selectors

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

Security scoregrade C · 130/205

Basic Security

10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity

Record Security

30/45missing: DMARC Record, DKIM Presence

Advanced Security

10/25missing: Mail Server Configuration, SOA Record Configuration

Domain Reputation

35/50missing: Typosquatting Check

Threat Detection

45/45missing: Domain Age Check

Blocklists0 listings · 8 lookups

SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop23.218.217.173Barracuda23.218.217.173UCEPROTECT Level 123.218.217.173SpamCop23.218.217.143Barracuda23.218.217.143UCEPROTECT Level 123.218.217.143

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=apple.news" \ -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=apple.news"

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

IPv6. Does apple.news work over IPv6? See the live check on aaaa.bot — website, mail and nameservers, graded A–F.

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