How is fetlife.com?

Be careful risk 20/100

Registered 19 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, no valid HTTPS certificate, the site answered 200 in 182 ms.

Why

02050100

finecarefulhigh risk

+20No valid HTTPS certificate.

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

182 ms

HTTPS

invalid

Could not resolve host (EREFUSED)

Age

19 years

registered 2008-01-01

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records4 record types

A	104.18.3.224 104.18.2.224
MX	30 aspmx5.googlemail.com 20 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com 30 aspmx2.googlemail.com 30 aspmx4.googlemail.com 30 aspmx3.googlemail.com 10 aspmx.l.google.com 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
NS	emily.ns.cloudflare.com khalid.ns.cloudflare.com
TXT	google-site-verification=t3D_zcIkHniXFjDapA0owmDxbsIkj7j4iupB_TezNOU _7bzihvyn2mx4fvasnkmnvsg66angws1 google-site-verification=UFJ1iDwXRJM_9EDuRh2aIrL8bzomeOfluccOMAygoWQ v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mtasv.net include:helpscoutemail.com ip4:46.243.158.133 -all yahoo-verification-key=6lwauOn+aJArTp2m2E5GKvfdEhSWw1Rd01s7piA/jds= google-site-verification=uWHSm9z-gih0Wylcvuy-I4n2YhGnu-qbFxZLD_HXL2A

RegistrationGoDaddy.com, LLC

registrar	GoDaddy.com, LLC
registered	2008-01-01
expires	2029-01-01
last changed	2026-01-09
nameservers	emily.ns.cloudflare.com khalid.ns.cloudflare.com
status	client delete prohibited client renew prohibited client transfer prohibited client update prohibited

registered 2008-01-01expires 2029-01-01

HTTPS certificatenot valid

valid	no
problem	Could not resolve host (EREFUSED)

DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → com → fetlife.com

Email authenticationexcellent

SPF	pass `v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mtasv.net include:helpscoutemail.com ip4:46.243.158.133 -all`
DMARC	pass policy reject
DKIM	found: google

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: IPv6 Support

Domain Reputation

50/50

Threat Detection

45/45missing: Domain Age Check

Blocklists0 listings · 8 lookups

SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop104.18.3.224Barracuda104.18.3.224UCEPROTECT Level 1104.18.3.224SpamCop104.18.2.224Barracuda104.18.2.224UCEPROTECT Level 1104.18.2.224

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=fetlife.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=fetlife.com"

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

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