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How is arstechnica.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 28 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 86 ms.

Why

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

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

How arstechnica.com looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
200
86 ms
HTTPS
69 d
left on a Amazon certificate
Age
28 years
registered 1998-12-30
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records4 record types
A3.128.8.29
3.13.112.100
MX5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com
10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com
1 aspmx.l.google.com
NSns-1285.awsdns-32.org
ns-783.awsdns-33.net
ns-2008.awsdns-59.co.uk
ns-493.awsdns-61.com
TXTgoogle-site-verification=Xt1q2fpVK6qREDXADvlLz2O5pvmUz9G_xxoGdeEnrH0
facebook-domain-verification=qptjyerza2q11uv3fe6aay6hbsncr8
google-site-verification=HdFEloOqFNJZvQWa7SK2BRmWVt8aVnPuagqXZ-C2U5U
google-site-verification=OtVm0j4Rqs4y10N827uQ_n8ZnMtO0vfqw1k5NCzaJvo
yahoo-verification-key=bP+HO9s82IBxbotbnF/O1nN4Jo4VfFXq5JNFAPCK8+o=
google-site-verification=XuFuLW59WRoAbzeQ-wsF0JwpaeYwtdzRmtiktfi3Pmc
loaderio=2fd6086b1c3ba926ae36db37131123f7
v=spf1 include:_u.arstechnica.com._spf.smart.ondmarc.com ~all
google-site-verification=nso4GHYIGZwo4gB6AoUxzJWkxOUdx83kbGeREAxnv3A
RegistrationCSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
registrarCSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
registered1998-12-30
expires2027-12-30
last changed2026-06-09
ownerAdvance Magazine Publishers Inc.
nameserversns-1285.awsdns-32.org
ns-2008.awsdns-59.co.uk
ns-493.awsdns-61.com
ns-783.awsdns-33.net
statusclient transfer prohibited
server delete prohibited
server transfer prohibited
server update prohibited
registered 1998-12-30expires 2027-12-30
HTTPS certificate69 days left
validyes
issuerAmazon
covers*.arstechnica.com, arstechnica.com
protocolTLSv1.2
issued 2026-06-25expires 2027-01-08
DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → com → arstechnica.com
Email authenticationexcellent
SPFpass v=spf1 include:_u.arstechnica.com._spf.smart.ondmarc.com ~all
DMARCpass policy reject
DKIMfound: google

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

Security scoregrade B · 165/205
Basic Security
20/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled
Record Security
30/45missing: CAA Records, DKIM Presence
Advanced Security
20/25missing: IPv6 Support
Domain Reputation
50/50
Threat Detection
45/45missing: Domain Age Check
Blocklists0 listings · 8 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop3.13.112.100Barracuda3.13.112.100UCEPROTECT Level 13.13.112.100SpamCop3.128.8.29Barracuda3.128.8.29UCEPROTECT Level 13.128.8.29

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.

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

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