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How is instagram.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 22 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 159 ms.

Why

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

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

How instagram.com looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
200
159 ms · ends at www.instagram.com
HTTPS
8 d
left on a DigiCert Inc certificate
Age
22 years
registered 2004-06-04
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records6 record types
A31.13.66.174
AAAA2a03:2880:f203:e5:face:b00c:0:4420
MX10 mxb-00082601.gslb.pphosted.com
20 mx0b-00082601.pphosted.com
20 mx0a-00082601.pphosted.com
10 mxa-00082601.gslb.pphosted.com
NSb.ns.instagram.com
a.ns.instagram.com
c.ns.instagram.com
d.ns.instagram.com
TXTnEXgIFIbDifAKlSMQvAhly5SA-vpsAkm5wiOdwdkrzY
google-site-verification=_iQgLr68Rdg7YnN2PqOljSG5dnWOFUUXISF9R77fs5c
4cbb1b68-601f-4801-8e7f-e8f68a4a41dd
facebook-domain-verification=hksvhmzcutq39t1kgpmlx11kt8314q
adobe-idp-site-verification=367fda82-a8bb-46cf-9cff-0062d452d229
ms=ms86975275
v=spf1 include:facebookmail.com include:_spf.fb.com -all
google-site-verification=GGtId51KFyq0hqX2xNvt1u0P9Xp0C7k6pp9do49fCNw
_yvfspgyfwcjnwgopowc9qjme14c32od
slack-domain-verification=2Sz3t8oHDaRB4aVudl36MIwEdb1XSR751nZGiDFv
hyWdekepiNsp/V9b1JCR+wZDdzbESurl4GqY+FLMfiN+7aeFaway0Art+kNDHeL5OnGZipNeV/iIC+lOONSQVQ==
CAA{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'digicert.com; account=271b0beda0771d006aa3a6c11b05187d456d6c239b46cb5241196095b09c92af', 'critical': 0}
RegistrationRegistrarSafe, LLC
registrarRegistrarSafe, LLC
registered2004-06-04
expires2034-06-04
last changed2025-06-25
ownerInstagram LLC
nameserversa.ns.instagram.com
b.ns.instagram.com
c.ns.instagram.com
d.ns.instagram.com
statusclient delete prohibited
client transfer prohibited
client update prohibited
server delete prohibited
server transfer prohibited
server update prohibited
registered 2004-06-04expires 2034-06-04
HTTPS certificate8 days left
validyes
issuerDigiCert Inc
covers*.instagram.com, *.cdninstagram.com, *.igsonar.com, cdninstagram.com, igsonar.com, instagram.com
protocolTLSv1.3
issued 2026-08-04expires 2026-11-02
DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → com → instagram.com
Email authenticationgood
SPFpass v=spf1 include:facebookmail.com include:_spf.fb.com -all
DMARCpass policy reject
DKIMnone of 1 common selectors

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

Security scoregrade A · 175/205
Basic Security
10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity
Record Security
45/45missing: DKIM Presence
Advanced Security
25/25
Domain Reputation
50/50
Threat Detection
45/45missing: Domain Age Check
Blocklists0 listings · 5 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop31.13.66.174Barracuda31.13.66.174UCEPROTECT Level 131.13.66.174

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=instagram.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=instagram.com"

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

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