How is archiveofourown.org?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 19 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.

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

Site

200

410 ms

HTTPS

67 d

left on a Google Trust Services certificate

Age

19 years

registered 2007-05-30

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records5 record types

A	104.20.8.2 104.20.9.2
AAAA	2606:4700:10::6814:902 2606:4700:10::6814:802
MX	5 ao3-mailin01.archiveofourown.org
NS	tadeo.ns.cloudflare.com shubhi.ns.cloudflare.com
TXT	google-site-verification=8XHLhpSftMZE52eO6nnlVCaSzY23nWWf9PwDpGepz9E v=spf1 ip4:104.153.64.119/32 ip4:208.85.241.153/32 ip4:208.85.241.146/32 ip4:172.105.151.184/32 -all

RegistrationPDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com

registrar	PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com
registered	2007-05-30
expires	2027-05-30
last changed	2026-08-12
nameservers	shubhi.ns.cloudflare.com tadeo.ns.cloudflare.com
status	client transfer prohibited

registered 2007-05-30expires 2027-05-30

HTTPS certificate67 days left

valid	yes
issuer	Google Trust Services
covers	archiveofourown.org, *.archiveofourown.org
protocol	TLSv1.3

issued 2026-10-05expires 2027-01-03

DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → org → archiveofourown.org

Email authenticationfair

SPF	pass `v=spf1 ip4:104.153.64.119/32 ip4:208.85.241.153/32 ip4:208.85.241.146/32 ip4:172.105.151.184/32 -all`
DMARC	pass policy quarantine
DKIM	none of 1 common selectors

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

Security scoregrade B · 155/205

Basic Security

10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity

Record Security

30/45missing: CAA Records, 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 MultidomainSpamCop104.20.9.2Barracuda104.20.9.2UCEPROTECT Level 1104.20.9.2SpamCop104.20.8.2Barracuda104.20.8.2UCEPROTECT Level 1104.20.8.2

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=archiveofourown.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=archiveofourown.org"

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

Watch archiveofourown.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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