How is archive.is?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 14 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 429 in 529 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.

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

Site

429

529 ms

HTTPS

66 d

left on a Let's Encrypt certificate

Age

14 years

registered 2012-05-16

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records5 record types

A	185.195.236.97
AAAA	2001:550:5a00:f309::4
MX	10 mail.tutanota.de
NS	carl.archive.is dave.archive.ph elsa.archive.li
TXT	v=spf1 include:spf.tutanota.de -all yandex-verification: 172.253.210.30 US AS15169 - 3.236.254.0/24 US AS14618

Registrationregistrar not reported

registered	2012-05-16
last changed	2026-09-13
country	Czechia
nameservers	carl.archive.is elsa.archive.li dave.archive.ph
status	active

HTTPS certificate66 days left

valid	yes
issuer	Let's Encrypt
covers	*.archive.is, archive.is
protocol	TLSv1.2

issued 2026-10-04expires 2027-01-02

DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → is → archive.is

Email authenticationexcellent

SPF	pass `v=spf1 include:spf.tutanota.de -all`
DMARC	pass policy quarantine
DKIM	found: s1, s2

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

Security scoregrade B · 160/205

Basic Security

20/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled

Record Security

30/45missing: CAA Records, DKIM Presence

Advanced Security

15/25missing: Mail Server Configuration, SOA Record Configuration

Domain Reputation

50/50

Threat Detection

45/45missing: Domain Age Check

Blocklists0 listings · 5 lookups

SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop107.189.8.227Barracuda107.189.8.227UCEPROTECT Level 1107.189.8.227

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=archive.is" \ -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=archive.is"

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

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