How is ip-api.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 15 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 50 ms.

Why

02050100

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

50 ms

HTTPS

134 d

left on a Sectigo Limited certificate

Age

15 years

registered 2012-04-24

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records4 record types

A	208.95.112.1
MX	20 mx2.emailsrvr.com 10 mx1.emailsrvr.com
NS	b.ip-api.com a.ip-api.com
TXT	v=spf1 mx include:emailsrvr.com ~all

RegistrationInternet Domain Service BS Corp

registrar	Internet Domain Service BS Corp
registered	2012-04-24
expires	2028-04-24
last changed	2026-04-10
owner	Whois Privacy Corp.
nameservers	a.ip-api.com b.ip-api.com
status	client transfer prohibited

registered 2012-04-24expires 2028-04-24

HTTPS certificate134 days left

valid	yes
issuer	Sectigo Limited
covers	*.ip-api.com, ip-api.com
protocol	TLSv1.2

issued 2026-02-06expires 2027-03-09

DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → com → ip-api.com

Email authenticationgood

SPF	pass `v=spf1 mx include:emailsrvr.com ~all`
DMARC	pass policy quarantine
DKIM	none of 1 common selectors

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

Security scoregrade B · 150/205

Basic Security

10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity

Record Security

30/45missing: CAA Records, DKIM Presence

Advanced Security

15/25missing: SOA Record Configuration, IPv6 Support

Domain Reputation

50/50

Threat Detection

45/45missing: Domain Age Check

Blocklists0 listings · 5 lookups

SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop208.95.112.1Barracuda208.95.112.1UCEPROTECT Level 1208.95.112.1

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=ip-api.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=ip-api.com"

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

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