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How is giphy.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 14 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 176 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 giphy.com looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
200
176 ms
HTTPS
165 d
left on a GlobalSign nv-sa certificate
Age
14 years
registered 2012-11-27
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records4 record types
A151.101.65.55
151.101.193.55
151.101.129.55
151.101.1.55
MX1 aspmx.l.google.com
10 aspmx2.googlemail.com
5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
NSns-1507.awsdns-60.org
ns-1872.awsdns-42.co.uk
ns-688.awsdns-22.net
ns-8.awsdns-01.com
TXT00D1U000000q2bj=1TBWj00000001gr
TAILSCALE-S8njngbH6JUB9eUyI3hA
apple-domain-verification=Fii0eNOZHns9TIAc
atlassian-domain-verification=2ZiBk8nroSamkeHuamMoEH9zYMfA1R0XO1ZWlq1mnt3E02TV0eaz56swmTVIdMH3
google-site-verification=84mKsZZUB9XYo-Ci3C6ODMErVHAtxe317JWYTbUQjFw
google-site-verification=m6PPLfObSkbjxTzE2TMYuB8ep11oITy1i3O2GqkEQ3A
google-site-verification=wWrXYq5cDpNdZjgDPtJ30mM87mlOArvOCGrkEVndkko
openai-domain-verification=dv-Sagm5Hc2GH6IccoTx7kqsIPO
status-page-domain-verification=9qs86qrhsgnd
v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQC1eUbX0WlXcwRefEWDxiZRQI59QABCL+n7ynL/9jASPtr4Nhlqff+AbbImJ7OgWkd6viDUk5RNsafT5dhtjGZTRLooTp2C1UWev9vIM5VBU4MIcW9ZGHuhTNrKPwiLS/TxJAFSE1lGWHmBp0+21XmdMbF/kF8k9WioazM093qmHwIDAQAB
v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.mailgun.org include:_spf.eu.mailgun.org include:servers.mcsv.net exists:%{i}._spf.mta.salesforce.com -all
RegistrationGoDaddy.com, LLC
registrarGoDaddy.com, LLC
registered2012-11-27
expires2033-11-27
last changed2024-06-20
nameserversns-1507.awsdns-60.org
ns-1872.awsdns-42.co.uk
ns-688.awsdns-22.net
ns-8.awsdns-01.com
statusclient delete prohibited
client renew prohibited
client transfer prohibited
client update prohibited
registered 2012-11-27expires 2033-11-27
HTTPS certificate165 days left
validyes
issuerGlobalSign nv-sa
covers*.giphy.com, giphy.com
protocolTLSv1.3
issued 2026-09-26expires 2027-04-13
DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → com → giphy.com
Email authenticationexcellent
SPFpass v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.mailgun.org include:_spf.eu.mailgun.org include:servers.mcsv.net exists:%{i}._spf.mta.salesforce.com -all
DMARCpass policy reject
DKIMfound: google, k1, smtp

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

Security scoregrade B · 175/215
Basic Security
20/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled
Record Security
40/55missing: CAA Records
Advanced Security
20/25missing: IPv6 Support
Domain Reputation
50/50
Threat Detection
45/45missing: Domain Age Check
Blocklists0 listings · 14 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop151.101.65.55Barracuda151.101.65.55UCEPROTECT Level 1151.101.65.55SpamCop151.101.1.55Barracuda151.101.1.55UCEPROTECT Level 1151.101.1.55SpamCop151.101.193.55Barracuda151.101.193.55UCEPROTECT Level 1151.101.193.55SpamCop151.101.129.55Barracuda151.101.129.55UCEPROTECT Level 1151.101.129.55

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=giphy.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=giphy.com"

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

Watch giphy.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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