How is gravatar.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 22 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 128 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

128 ms

HTTPS

71 d

left on a Let's Encrypt certificate

Age

22 years

registered 2004-07-15

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records5 record types

A	192.0.80.242 192.0.80.240 192.0.80.241 192.0.80.239
MX	10 mx2.ams.automattic.com 10 mx1.dfw.automattic.com
NS	ns3.automattic.com ns1.automattic.com ns2.automattic.com
TXT	v=spf1 include:_spf.automattic.com include:mail.zendesk.com -all google-site-verification=zcrh49pTocv2U39W4cjPWiyphok2YMYy6qGrqKCiU9k vontbyjxrq google-site-verification=EnpZ3Ws1zod-yJk1A56dmmybRJuaFJS5pC5ufe7fY08
CAA	{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'letsencrypt.org;validationmethods=dns-01;accounturi=https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/acct/36334489', 'critical': 0}

RegistrationMarkMonitor Inc.

registrar	MarkMonitor Inc.
registered	2004-07-15
expires	2027-07-15
last changed	2025-06-13
owner	REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
nameservers	ns1.automattic.com ns2.automattic.com ns3.automattic.com
status	client delete prohibited client transfer prohibited client update prohibited

registered 2004-07-15expires 2027-07-15

HTTPS certificate71 days left

valid	yes
issuer	Let's Encrypt
covers	*.gravatar.com, gravatar.com
protocol	TLSv1.3

issued 2026-10-07expires 2027-01-05

DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → com → gravatar.com

Email authenticationgood

SPF	pass `v=spf1 include:_spf.automattic.com include:mail.zendesk.com -all`
DMARC	pass policy reject
DKIM	none of 1 common selectors

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

Security scoregrade B · 170/205

Basic Security

10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity

Record Security

45/45missing: DKIM Presence

Advanced Security

20/25missing: IPv6 Support

Domain Reputation

50/50

Threat Detection

45/45missing: Domain Age Check

Blocklists0 listings · 14 lookups

SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop192.0.80.239Barracuda192.0.80.239UCEPROTECT Level 1192.0.80.239SpamCop192.0.80.240Barracuda192.0.80.240UCEPROTECT Level 1192.0.80.240SpamCop192.0.80.242Barracuda192.0.80.242UCEPROTECT Level 1192.0.80.242SpamCop192.0.80.241Barracuda192.0.80.241UCEPROTECT Level 1192.0.80.241

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=gravatar.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=gravatar.com"

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

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