How is genius.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 32 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 403 in 51 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

403

51 ms

HTTPS

40 d

left on a Google Trust Services certificate

Age

32 years

registered 1994-08-05

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records5 record types

A	104.18.23.208 104.18.22.208
AAAA	2606:4700::6812:17d0 2606:4700::6812:16d0
MX	30 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com 50 aspmx3.googlemail.com 40 aspmx2.googlemail.com 10 aspmx.l.google.com 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
NS	cody.ns.cloudflare.com gail.ns.cloudflare.com
TXT	google-site-verification=7fJqu3FnyOHBhQJWkwJ3YSOwcnzNVfWFlTk8pAjT8Fs google-site-verification=HhzrYq6nGhYqq54tmMfikeCOiy1zlrcijgx2an0wp4I blitz=mu-f9723803-7585777f-82d589ff-533e169d mixpanel-domain-verify=2a7a0f81-7665-4a70-9b0b-135ab50e83e2 anthropic-domain-verification-z31ca9=Fc99lL30ilUgSujV6q6Doe5YO atlassian-domain-verification=zBnQjyxIXRiBvnX39OwQsQjQ0NHRTT8z7jLkSYoDwQI0LDJEbkHtP50JXc/nBUSm BSI106497997089 google-site-verification=ODnQVc6S14fqDD9_MJcAdmC27xCy9Tl5uo5bUr7mDcg v=spf1 mx include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com ~all apple-domain-verification=EfRsRQ0HxpWuGSIi facebook-domain-verification=gjd6qq5ko95rzz3rr5ybmw46u9nk64 1password-site-verification=6KBIZF44GBDNJDUJJ7VJRQXEWY google-site-verification=jDlIT98pi-_jA47Dj3KvhYesl2n50v66abqeCMo9CRY google-site-verification=NOlZXdOysTTU8drrYjd1nulZlNL9mZ-LAybhtMmNLGA wiz-domain-verification=f3b6d68a74d9c5778d2b2425a194ae0f53fe91eb8dd0fd836e5b7650b7f20488 MS=ms10556953 stripe-verification=DD4DBC1FB4BF1186F5F8C137CBF7277B822D9050E282EABDC868A4D50FF39C95 ZOOM_verify_QMXaG8RM8bDxZUToxZ8FeP slack-domain-verification=C0bfs07QtaBeS8anLI6Wxb7nv66uabFX4HdllmgF

RegistrationAmazon Registrar, Inc.

registrar	Amazon Registrar, Inc.
registered	1994-08-05
expires	2032-05-27
last changed	2026-05-16
owner	c/o whoisproxy.com
nameservers	cody.ns.cloudflare.com gail.ns.cloudflare.com
status	client transfer prohibited

registered 1994-08-05expires 2032-05-27

HTTPS certificate40 days left

valid	yes
issuer	Google Trust Services
covers	genius.com, *.genius.com
protocol	TLSv1.2

issued 2026-09-09expires 2026-12-08

DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → com → genius.com

Email authenticationgood

SPF	pass `v=spf1 mx include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com ~all`
DMARC	warning policy none
DKIM	found: google, s1, s2

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

Security scoregrade B · 153/205

Basic Security

10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity

Record Security

23/45missing: CAA Records, DMARC Record, DKIM Presence

Advanced Security

25/25

Domain Reputation

50/50

Threat Detection

45/45missing: Domain Age Check

Blocklists0 listings · 8 lookups

SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop104.18.23.208Barracuda104.18.23.208UCEPROTECT Level 1104.18.23.208SpamCop104.18.22.208Barracuda104.18.22.208UCEPROTECT Level 1104.18.22.208

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=genius.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=genius.com"

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

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