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How is gitlab.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 23 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 170 ms.

Why

02050100
finecarefulhigh risk
  • ·Nothing in the checks added risk.

Rule-based: domain age, blocklists, TLS. A heuristic, not a guarantee.

How gitlab.com looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
200
170 ms · ends at about.gitlab.com
HTTPS
198 d
left on a Sectigo Limited certificate
Age
23 years
registered 2004-01-15
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records6 record types
A172.65.251.78
AAAA2606:4700:90:0:f22e:fbec:5bed:a9b9
MX1 aspmx.l.google.com
10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com
10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com
5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
NSdiva.ns.cloudflare.com
jermaine.ns.cloudflare.com
TXTonetrust-domain-verification=84b59aa2659244d486b0b86f5db073dd
google-site-verification=XDRo7LEOqv6OV0RfGDFh7G2XgpzdycygGJBqde334q4
google-site-verification=uT9dAMjaTlnkbC0VnN5flFWp0Bsze7zHObWjZwkd2p8
v=spf1 include:mail.zendesk.com include:_spf.google.com include:mktomail.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:_spf-ip.gitlab.com a:zgateway.zuora.com include:mailgun.org include:_spf.sendergen.com ip4:35.80.141.6/32 ip4:44.229.121.55/32 -all
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mgverify=9549a96a4bc9886fbf483bcd56872eaf2b5b9e690d264024041cf446664cb114
google-site-verification=iWR2UGQb3MvVY83zY47ZFrGFVFLG6ADfpjqchlQjnok
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docusign=1a7d6818-2cf5-4956-a9fb-c3d2e9a578dd
verification_token=8FqT6wRlbrh3HQcHHiKudS5Ru
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jamf-site-verification=nRPNM9HJGzWzUkvBtgvBrg
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MS=ms60523131
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MS=ms83893381
mgverify=2dd945066758840fe3bfbd9ccf90e2c6000458f13345baa576338880dcc86658
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google-site-verification=QiG7NTIWpedorFi71mMN7OVe2Fo_yA6RclsxO8stOa8
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drift-domain-verification=fa583cfff88c496bcc62651057550656a98ab3e689c314255a1a6ae848e3e56d
CAA{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'awstrust.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'amazontrust.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'critical': 0, 'issuewild': 'ssl.com'}
{'type': 'CAA', 'critical': 0, 'issuewild': 'comodoca.com'}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'amazonaws.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'critical': 0, 'issuewild': 'letsencrypt.org'}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'ssl.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'amazon.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'letsencrypt.org', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'critical': 0, 'issuewild': 'pki.goog; cansignhttpexchanges=yes'}
{'type': 'CAA', 'critical': 0, 'issuewild': 'digicert.com; cansignhttpexchanges=yes'}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'comodoca.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'digicert.com; cansignhttpexchanges=yes', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'iodef': 'mailto:security@gitlab.com', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'pki.goog; cansignhttpexchanges=yes', 'critical': 0}
{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'sectigo.com', 'critical': 0}
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RegistrationGandi SAS
registrarGandi SAS
registered2004-01-15
expires2027-01-15
last changed2025-12-11
ownerGitLab Inc.
nameserversdiva.ns.cloudflare.com
jermaine.ns.cloudflare.com
statusclient transfer prohibited
registered 2004-01-15expires 2027-01-15
HTTPS certificate198 days left
validyes
issuerSectigo Limited
coversgitlab.com, auth.gitlab.com, customers.gitlab.com, email.customers.gitlab.com, gprd.gitlab.com, www.gitlab.com
protocolTLSv1.3
issued 2026-10-26expires 2027-05-12
DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → com → gitlab.com
Email authenticationexcellent
SPFpass v=spf1 include:mail.zendesk.com include:_spf.google.com include:mktomail.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:_spf-ip.gitlab.com a:zgateway.zuora.com include:mailgun.org include:_spf.sendergen.com ip4:35.80.141.6/32 ip4:44.229.121.55/32 -all
DMARCpass policy reject
DKIMfound: google, k1, mail

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

Security scoregrade B · 172/205
Basic Security
10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity
Record Security
45/45missing: DKIM Presence
Advanced Security
25/25
Domain Reputation
47/50missing: Typosquatting Check
Threat Detection
45/45missing: Domain Age Check
Blocklists0 listings · 5 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop172.65.251.78Barracuda172.65.251.78UCEPROTECT Level 1172.65.251.78

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=gitlab.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=gitlab.com"

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

Watch gitlab.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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