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How is illinois.gov?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 24 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 231 ms.

Why

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

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

How illinois.gov looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
200
231 ms · ends at www.illinois.gov
HTTPS
21 d
left on a Entrust Limited certificate
Age
24 years
registered 2002-12-06
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records4 record types
A216.124.54.81
MX10 smtpin01.illinois.gov
10 smtpin02.illinois.gov
10 smtpin06.illinois.gov
10 smtpin07.illinois.gov
NSns1.state.il.us
ns2.state.il.us
TXTwOtt7MiikNEVzT3g6w67ApHwXTrfJOFh1lCc7lji4no
nintex.5fd391c5cb8d8e0076c36d60
adobe-sign-verification=8cc42102a84255fc8fc27772638c874c679c4047d8dec2b873cbee95822f6739
duo_sso_verification=1T78KTr4HF1TxcSmn4DxGrrsopbAus51aSPCvrwPdS88xBvNZpeOB8V2kiDf0SE7
v=spf1 ip4:216.124.52.100/30 ip4:216.124.52.104/31 ip4:216.124.56.100/30 ip4:216.124.54.33 ip4:216.124.54.34 ip4:216.124.54.74/31 ip4:216.124.52.108 ip4:216.124.56.108 include:spf-a.illinois.gov include:spf-b.illinois.gov ~all
MS=ms60423754
gaiTzaBht-d6eXFZYUdO1i1oh06RDzRyGCpWgLMlofs
ms-domain-verification=8c3ab3a5-5d5d-4898-8770-ba9042821f05
autodesk-domain-verification=NbV7il7UzcGmzKW1j4yt
cisco-ci-domain-verification=636f044289fdef5e518bf805789ae503e68a9986a4c828463ef0e2702546b449
apple-domain-verification=JSrLZ1LXVF1UrOJF
facebook-domain-verification=2w82c844tsx680g9yp5hffxbyuwsfs
RLcbnELXo5FSTaOv0ZqtBW9yB0sgkvfYI/ooi/EYygkGfn8z83f1L5910/rQ0ex1PW9kgB5WXVo71t5k5PaT0Q==
amazonses:5nHTCHwwWDHriU8FTP67zvUMrrL5qNUuB5iI0JMMZPU=
globalsign-domain-verification=f7d6a73ae0ca1fe5f8f80c5d20e54aa2
MS=ms32087352
linkedin-site-verification=4e2085c1-e317-45f5-8832-3b4bfbbdc1db
twilio-domain-verification=acc6815068755ee00a8c731153d2fda0
Tb0bFXOolTmnFYnZPZkq
mandrill_verify.gO2P4HmQhCSpMLOvP6thdw
linkedin-site-verification=91f4f058-a6d5-42eb-b0eb-4a44016b2f3c
amazonses:6BChZPXUCqAtYR8AvcPZK0IScktI7msQPJnSw1ZswDY=
apple-domain-verification=WY8ENNSz8TFZgldD
jamf-site-verification=-Z2p3FaqSbw_mUG3lSrDnw
google-site-verification=zMZbX-dRdjTo7oQX3CTYU0zo8lQmii2SiZxH_hAjkHo
Registrationget.gov
registrarget.gov
registered2002-12-06
expires2027-09-16
last changed2026-08-22
ownerState of Illinois
countryUnited States
nameserversns1.state.il.us
ns2.state.il.us
statusserver transfer prohibited
registered 2002-12-06expires 2027-09-16
HTTPS certificate21 days left
validyes
issuerEntrust Limited
covers*.illinois.gov, illinois.gov
protocolTLSv1.3
issued 2025-10-24expires 2026-11-23
DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → gov → illinois.gov
Email authenticationgood
SPFpass v=spf1 ip4:216.124.52.100/30 ip4:216.124.52.104/31 ip4:216.124.56.100/30 ip4:216.124.54.33 ip4:216.124.54.34 ip4:216.124.54.74/31 ip4:216.124.52.108 ip4:216.124.56.108 include:spf-a.illinois.gov include:spf-b.illinois.gov ~all
DMARCwarning policy quarantine
DKIMfound: selector1, selector2, s1, s2, mail

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

Security scoregrade B · 155/205
Basic Security
10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity
Record Security
30/45missing: CAA Records, DKIM Presence
Advanced Security
20/25missing: IPv6 Support
Domain Reputation
50/50
Threat Detection
45/45missing: Domain Age Check
Blocklists0 listings · 5 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop216.124.54.81Barracuda216.124.54.81UCEPROTECT Level 1216.124.54.81

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=illinois.gov" \ -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=illinois.gov"

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

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