How is investopedia.com?
Looks fine
risk 0/100
Registered 27 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 403 in 114 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
403
114 ms
HTTPS
74 d
left on a Let's Encrypt certificate
Age
27 years
registered 1999-07-25
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists
Everything we looked at
DNS records5 record types
| A | 162.159.141.224 172.66.1.220 |
|---|---|
| AAAA | 2606:4700:7::1d8 2a06:98c1:58::1d8 |
| MX | 50 aspmx3.l.google.com 30 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com 10 aspmx.l.google.com 40 aspmx2.l.google.com 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com |
| NS | blue.foundationdns.com blue.foundationdns.org blue.foundationdns.net |
| TXT | v=spf1 ip4:64.125.213.247 ip4:216.223.13.247 include:_spf.salesforce.com include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:shops.shopify.com include:amazonses.com ~all slack-domain-verification=RsETqALsR9157MTqtXUQCYug79sLTGhiEqRotwoS knowbe4-site-verification=fa92b9e4fa2fbe928824de444cebea5e docusign=2712ee87-1888-47bf-ae05-df3d4700e2af cursor-domain-verification-gqy09j=ZDoEErJc1oNEoeMYMwuV8lXRK google-site-verification=oexat4WLVVMCuMJyVHX6o-wTIKUky_V9F-jqr276Ppg HUBwlul5Fmy651CSwhlBYbGdWXe/swJ94BTJ+BEw/Eo9wc/RH7IF9Ee5L2ZqTwN7+Qpif6o3lZUamu73aplBWw== google-site-verification=7U9I8OXvJpCZ0Wy22HzMIAqrxouKkzRsNYjxXo4r3ZE MS=ms53501543 ZOOM_verify_w86oGdeLQF2AAEx7l3qMEg google-site-verification=2Ni9meB83NWRT3OKYCkkIW2n5s0vITMvWCOB5qHRSUI ms=ms48802116 atlassian-domain-verification=uUTQHYge655RxaiCqp-IAyc/Q7GgtoJziDouyp0rB7n8OUdp4q8WfSgllR1IaJVR windsurf-verification=TQmtgOufPIucXHTvZpCu-69s1cUqRgANHjvb1jSKps4= adobe-idp-site-verification=4d443bb146b2a60fc0c0216c899a6ef9baa971cc3c36ac4b3020b4719b5c2e82 shopify-verification-code=4u4KjZnu6j7Y7M2F1NY3uHYaat9Dwc facebook-domain-verification=87sdjaffvy7sgr85gcbiqhj8np8yqs openai-domain-verification=dv-gEkXimeL9rGDVPno1d3M80Ry miro-verification=4a4040a3b3bcf8dd8693aadc1038336053ff0142 |
RegistrationMarkMonitor Inc.
| registrar | MarkMonitor Inc. |
|---|---|
| registered | 1999-07-25 |
| expires | 2027-07-25 |
| last changed | 2026-06-23 |
| owner | REDACTED FOR PRIVACY |
| nameservers | blue.foundationdns.com blue.foundationdns.net blue.foundationdns.org |
| status | client delete prohibited client transfer prohibited client update prohibited server delete prohibited server transfer prohibited server update prohibited |
registered 1999-07-25expires 2027-07-25
HTTPS certificate74 days left
| valid | yes |
|---|---|
| issuer | Let's Encrypt |
| covers | *.investopedia.com, investopedia.com |
| protocol | TLSv1.3 |
issued 2026-10-12expires 2027-01-10
DNSSECinsecure
Domain is not signed with DNSSEC
. → com → investopedia.com
Email authenticationgood
| SPF | pass v=spf1 ip4:64.125.213.247 ip4:216.223.13.247 include:_spf.salesforce.com include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:shops.shopify.com include:amazonses.com ~all |
|---|---|
| DMARC | warning policy none |
| DKIM | found: google |
Whether mail claiming to be from this domain can be checked as genuine.
Security scoregrade B · 163/205
Basic Security20/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled
Record Security23/45missing: CAA Records, DMARC Record, DKIM Presence
Advanced Security25/25
Domain Reputation50/50
Threat Detection45/45missing: Domain Age Check
Blocklists0 listings · 8 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop162.159.141.224Barracuda162.159.141.224UCEPROTECT Level 1162.159.141.224SpamCop172.66.1.220Barracuda172.66.1.220UCEPROTECT Level 1172.66.1.220
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=investopedia.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=investopedia.com"
MCP: add https://how.is/mcp to Claude, Codex or Cursor
(one-line install) and ask for domain_trust on investopedia.com.
Reference: /llms.txt.
Watch investopedia.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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