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How is census.gov?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 29 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 148 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.

How census.gov looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
200
148 ms · ends at www.census.gov
HTTPS
152 d
left on a DigiCert Inc certificate
Age
29 years
registered 1997-10-02
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records5 record types
A148.129.75.166
AAAA2610:20:2010:a05:1000:0:9481:4ba6
MX50 mail1.census.gov
50 mail2.census.gov
NSns2e.census.gov
ns1e.census.gov
TXTMS=ms38105103
apple-domain-verification=2jIC5VNEsj8bPdnu
apple-domain-verification=A8NwvlnLg7Cm2H3G
airtable-verification=3602865d8095935581ec510122a7f819
google-site-verification=5gdefaxvKpVMBIGemF2Dw4yBrtDazSNnprwC3sLsrUE
google-site-verification=KnpcXkPcji6vLLd7Scev-xZMllMdI8f75Ibi--S4lzI
google-site-verification=OMpp6MyQ1bAbnGclpbKqCMZal_1HxJapzG2tSRWFbzI
+i27enlfMpLlk9UWn4Ku+sUy3QO5Lnbysj+2rdvlyfPtq28iCTuH3b9ZnVWcYbhtrY1f1H9xsXT74U75J6h2aQ==
infoblox-domain-mastery=578e129560f03adc81a7b3f658065459be516b52709d8fde2b1183b71db46b7e5c
adobe-idp-site-verification=c75e766ae664774cb9d671205f69ba1bbb97fbacb49c55d78725c432ef88e31d
v=spf1 ip4:148.129.0.0/16 ip6:2610:20:2000:101::f:0 ip6:2610:20:2010:a04::f:0 mx include:csod.spf.census.gov include:i1.spf.census.gov include:i2.spf.census.gov ~all
Registrationget.gov
registrarget.gov
registered1997-10-02
expires2027-09-02
last changed2026-08-23
ownerDepartment of Commerce
countryUnited States
nameserversns1e.census.gov
ns2e.census.gov
statusserver transfer prohibited
registered 1997-10-02expires 2027-09-02
HTTPS certificate152 days left
validyes
issuerDigiCert Inc
coverswww.census.gov, census.gov
protocolTLSv1.2
issued 2026-09-16expires 2027-04-02
DNSSECsecure

Domain is properly signed — chain validated by an independent validating resolver

. → gov → census.gov
Email authenticationgood
SPFpass v=spf1 ip4:148.129.0.0/16 ip6:2610:20:2000:101::f:0 ip6:2610:20:2010:a04::f:0 mx include:csod.spf.census.gov include:i1.spf.census.gov include:i2.spf.census.gov ~all
DMARCpass policy reject
DKIMnone of 1 common selectors

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

Security scoregrade B · 160/205
Basic Security
10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity
Record Security
30/45missing: CAA Records, DKIM Presence
Advanced Security
25/25
Domain Reputation
50/50
Threat Detection
45/45missing: Domain Age Check
Blocklists0 listings · 5 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop148.129.75.166Barracuda148.129.75.166UCEPROTECT Level 1148.129.75.166

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=census.gov" \ -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=census.gov"

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

IPv6. IPv6 readiness grade for census.gov Does census.gov work over IPv6? See the live check on aaaa.bot — website, mail and nameservers, graded A–F.

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