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How is forbes.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 33 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 403 in 32 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 forbes.com looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
403
32 ms
HTTPS
47 d
left on a GlobalSign nv-sa certificate
Age
33 years
registered 1993-06-17
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records5 record types
A151.101.194.49
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151.101.130.49
MX10 us-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com
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NSns-217.awsdns-27.com
ns-1637.awsdns-12.co.uk
ns-1028.awsdns-00.org
ns-979.awsdns-58.net
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RegistrationMarkMonitor Inc.
registrarMarkMonitor Inc.
registered1993-06-17
expires2027-06-16
last changed2026-05-15
ownerREDACTED FOR PRIVACY
nameserversns-1028.awsdns-00.org
ns-1637.awsdns-12.co.uk
ns-217.awsdns-27.com
ns-979.awsdns-58.net
statusclient delete prohibited
client transfer prohibited
client update prohibited
registered 1993-06-17expires 2027-06-16
HTTPS certificate47 days left
validyes
issuerGlobalSign nv-sa
coversforbes.com
protocolTLSv1.2
issued 2025-11-10expires 2026-12-12
DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → com → forbes.com
Email authenticationgood
SPFwarning v=spf1 redirect=b45gkw7f._spf._d.mim.ec
DMARCpass policy reject
DKIMfound: google, selector2, k1, s1, s2

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

Security scoregrade B · 173/205
Basic Security
20/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled
Record Security
38/45missing: SPF Record, DKIM Presence
Advanced Security
20/25missing: IPv6 Support
Domain Reputation
50/50
Threat Detection
45/45missing: Domain Age Check
Blocklists0 listings · 14 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop151.101.130.49Barracuda151.101.130.49UCEPROTECT Level 1151.101.130.49SpamCop151.101.2.49Barracuda151.101.2.49UCEPROTECT Level 1151.101.2.49SpamCop151.101.66.49Barracuda151.101.66.49UCEPROTECT Level 1151.101.66.49SpamCop151.101.194.49Barracuda151.101.194.49UCEPROTECT Level 1151.101.194.49

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=forbes.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=forbes.com"

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

Watch forbes.com. 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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