How is git-scm.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 18 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 55 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.

The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.

Site

200

55 ms

HTTPS

47 d

left on a Google Trust Services certificate

Age

18 years

registered 2008-07-23

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records4 record types

A	104.20.47.174 172.66.149.185
AAAA	2606:4700:10::6814:2fae 2606:4700:10::ac42:95b9
MX	50 fb.mail.gandi.net 10 spool.mail.gandi.net
NS	tori.ns.cloudflare.com algin.ns.cloudflare.com

RegistrationGandi SAS

registrar	Gandi SAS
registered	2008-07-23
expires	2027-07-23
last changed	2026-06-22
owner	Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc.
nameservers	algin.ns.cloudflare.com tori.ns.cloudflare.com
status	client transfer prohibited

registered 2008-07-23expires 2027-07-23

HTTPS certificate47 days left

valid	yes
issuer	Google Trust Services
covers	git-scm.com, *.git-scm.com
protocol	TLSv1.3

issued 2026-09-19expires 2026-12-18

DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → com → git-scm.com

Email authenticationpoor

SPF	none
DMARC	none
DKIM	none of 1 common selectors

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

Security scoregrade C · 130/205

Basic Security

10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity

Record Security

0/45missing: CAA Records, SPF Record, 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 MultidomainSpamCop104.20.47.174Barracuda104.20.47.174UCEPROTECT Level 1104.20.47.174SpamCop172.66.149.185Barracuda172.66.149.185UCEPROTECT Level 1172.66.149.185

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=git-scm.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=git-scm.com"

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

IPv6. Does git-scm.com work over IPv6? See the live check on aaaa.bot — website, mail and nameservers, graded A–F.

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