How is chess.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 32 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 322 ms.

Why

02050100

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

322 ms · ends at www.chess.com

HTTPS

65 d

left on a Google Trust Services certificate

Age

32 years

registered 1994-08-11

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records5 record types

A	104.18.138.67 104.18.137.67 104.18.140.67 104.18.139.67 104.18.141.67
AAAA	2606:4700::6812:8b43 2606:4700::6812:8943 2606:4700::6812:8c43 2606:4700::6812:8d43 2606:4700::6812:8a43
MX	1 aspmx.l.google.com 10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com 10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
NS	dan.ns.cloudflare.com sue.ns.cloudflare.com
TXT	google-site-verification=-IEcIDuCPFtP5lGt2Ew4szUAHS72-etgZlx1gMV6pio anthropic-domain-verification-dw7mcs=Wrv9zfXoJwdPNfVBZ00tvsUv9 v=spf1 mx include:_spf.google.com include:helpscoutemail.com -all openai-domain-verification=dv-mQbeeGs2oFo4EQPswxbWdgwR google-site-verification=0pYVTC1HVc5Sfx3fUEF2PYcw_k9OCOaH8Yo-kVOa5SU cursor-domain-verification-3n0gag=LnwL6mv8SSLDlV1B9gtsSLPvm yandex-verification: 839b791a7c251c8d google-site-verification=yGV0ApuFJgYNGGkyuO5bq2K1QUvo9KJkJg6OOvBOJ5U google-site-verification=F_-pKRat6Vr7qJ7ziD-ZZeWXllpfyAXOgO7FHghsWLc google-site-verification=nGkVwZQHAfSEsE5JbUKUPszzT9Ai4DqtahuattcOpE8 atlassian-domain-verification=TuqoJ/o0yXYnDqzcxNZoISmTHtCfDC/3l/XR5r/4cC68H0B/YQUIgLtKaWH/0P5c

RegistrationGoDaddy.com, LLC

registrar	GoDaddy.com, LLC
registered	1994-08-11
expires	2027-07-02
last changed	2024-08-07
nameservers	dan.ns.cloudflare.com sue.ns.cloudflare.com
status	client delete prohibited client renew prohibited client transfer prohibited client update prohibited

registered 1994-08-11expires 2027-07-02

HTTPS certificate65 days left

valid	yes
issuer	Google Trust Services
covers	chess.com, error-pages.chess.com
protocol	TLSv1.3

issued 2026-10-03expires 2027-01-02

DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → com → chess.com

Email authenticationexcellent

SPF	pass `v=spf1 mx include:_spf.google.com include:helpscoutemail.com -all`
DMARC	pass policy reject
DKIM	found: s1, s2

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

Security scoregrade B · 157/205

Basic Security

10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity

Record Security

30/45missing: CAA Records, DKIM Presence

Advanced Security

25/25

Domain Reputation

47/50missing: Typosquatting Check

Threat Detection

45/45missing: Domain Age Check

Blocklists0 listings · 17 lookups

SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop104.18.140.67Barracuda104.18.140.67UCEPROTECT Level 1104.18.140.67SpamCop104.18.137.67Barracuda104.18.137.67UCEPROTECT Level 1104.18.137.67SpamCop104.18.138.67Barracuda104.18.138.67UCEPROTECT Level 1104.18.138.67SpamCop104.18.139.67Barracuda104.18.139.67UCEPROTECT Level 1104.18.139.67SpamCop104.18.141.67Barracuda104.18.141.67UCEPROTECT Level 1104.18.141.67

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=chess.com" \ -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=chess.com"

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

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