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How is archive.org?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 31 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 256 ms.

Why

02050100
finecarefulhigh risk
  • ·Nothing in the checks added risk.

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

How archive.org looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
200
256 ms
HTTPS
106 d
left on a GoDaddy.com, Inc. certificate
Age
31 years
registered 1995-12-14
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records4 record types
A207.241.224.2
MX100 smtp.google.com
NSns3.archive.org
ns2.archive.org
ns0208.secondary.cloudflare.com
ns-global.kjsl.com
ns1.archive.org
ns0036.secondary.cloudflare.com
TXTt44orrgdmehs56t0qtiuri47io
atlassian-domain-verification=AayvCFYrHZxErANHNVvoXR/RxRkCrZHgMCRDL2lfbyF3JFND0IW5NQyCOmgEIKiS
google-site-verification=jG-1u9Cab2yUEOgG_HdB1DuUZ03oaNIPU93Vp-nnJLw
google-site-verification=ZkKkXmzrzbWYiTTj_Js7OokIcxjveE89BiwhcHXCq-g
8ptfmp7ldsrm99l4h8faqrjo17
brightdata-site-verification=b65e50d2b97851b4872653329f68d7c2
v=spf1 mx ip4:207.241.224.6/32 ip4:207.241.224.2/32 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.braintreegateway.com include:_spf.salesforce.com -all
brave-ledger-verification=helloarchive.org
MS=ms84122558
RegistrationeasyDNS Technologies Inc.
registrareasyDNS Technologies Inc.
registered1995-12-14
expires2030-12-13
last changed2026-08-12
nameserversns3.archive.org
ns1.archive.org
ns2.archive.org
ns-global.kjsl.com
ns0036.secondary.cloudflare.com
ns0208.secondary.cloudflare.com
statusclient transfer prohibited
client update prohibited
registered 1995-12-14expires 2030-12-13
HTTPS certificate106 days left
validyes
issuerGoDaddy.com, Inc.
covers*.archive.org, archive.org
protocolTLSv1.3
issued 2026-01-08expires 2027-02-09
DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → org → archive.org
Email authenticationexcellent
SPFpass v=spf1 mx ip4:207.241.224.6/32 ip4:207.241.224.2/32 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.braintreegateway.com include:_spf.salesforce.com -all
DMARCpass policy reject
DKIMfound: google

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

Security scoregrade B · 155/205
Basic Security
20/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled
Record Security
30/45missing: CAA Records, DKIM Presence
Advanced Security
10/25missing: Mail Server Configuration, SOA Record Configuration, IPv6 Support
Domain Reputation
50/50
Threat Detection
45/45missing: Domain Age Check
Blocklists0 listings · 5 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop207.241.224.2Barracuda207.241.224.2UCEPROTECT Level 1207.241.224.2

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.org" \ -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.org"

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

Watch archive.org. DNS read at the source every 5 minutes; certificate, blocklists and expiry every 6 hours. You get an email only when something changes.

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