How is freebsd.org?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 32 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 208 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

208 ms · ends at www.freebsd.org

HTTPS

39 d

left on a Let's Encrypt certificate

Age

32 years

registered 1994-09-19

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records6 record types

A	96.47.72.84
AAAA	2610:1c1:1:606c::50:15
MX	30 mx66.freebsd.org 10 mx1.freebsd.org
NS	ns4.he.net ns3.he.net ns5.he.net ns2.freebsd.org ns1.freebsd.org
TXT	v=spf1 redirect=_spf.freebsd.org MS=ms11588187 hns-claim:aakkrbzh6oyntnuoh5inq26wzg5iceg43ti726v4aaaaaaaapkk3hln5b5mvy7fny4mh6iaapmwg3wrcc5tw6bbk2dzaeaaaacnun75s
CAA	{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'letsencrypt.org', 'critical': 0} {'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'comodoca.com', 'critical': 0}

RegistrationGandi SAS

registrar	Gandi SAS
registered	1994-09-19
expires	2028-09-18
last changed	2026-08-12
owner	FreeBSD Foundation
nameservers	ns1.freebsd.org ns2.freebsd.org ns3.he.net ns4.he.net ns5.he.net
status	client transfer prohibited

registered 1994-09-19expires 2028-09-18

HTTPS certificate39 days left

valid	yes
issuer	Let's Encrypt
covers	docs.freebsd.org, freebsd.org, lists.freebsd.org, people.freebsd.org, www.freebsd.org
protocol	TLSv1.3

issued 2026-09-11expires 2026-12-10

DNSSECsecure

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

. → org → freebsd.org

Email authenticationgood

SPF	warning `v=spf1 redirect=_spf.freebsd.org`
DMARC	warning policy none
DKIM	found: dkim

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

Security scoregrade B · 171/205

Basic Security

20/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled

Record Security

31/45missing: SPF Record, DMARC Record, DKIM Presence

Advanced Security

25/25

Domain Reputation

50/50

Threat Detection

45/45missing: Domain Age Check

Blocklists0 listings · 5 lookups

SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop96.47.72.84Barracuda96.47.72.84UCEPROTECT Level 196.47.72.84

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=freebsd.org" \ -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=freebsd.org"

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

IPv6. Does freebsd.org work over IPv6? See the live check on aaaa.bot — website, mail and nameservers, graded A–F.

Watch freebsd.org. DNS read at the source every 5 minutes; certificate, blocklists and expiry every 6 hours. You get an email only when something changes.

Watch — $1 / 30 days