How is itch.io?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 15 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 758 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

758 ms

HTTPS

81 d

left on a Google Trust Services certificate

Age

15 years

registered 2011-10-27

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records5 record types

A	104.26.9.198 172.67.69.99 104.26.8.198
AAAA	2606:4700:20::ac43:4563 2606:4700:20::681a:9c6 2606:4700:20::681a:8c6
MX	20 mx2.zoho.com 10 mx.zoho.com
NS	noah.ns.cloudflare.com dawn.ns.cloudflare.com
TXT	google-site-verification=6hl42kO3bIWWIu-mf44uXdzQc2ckxn-If90YdNhRUBg v=spf1 include:mailgun.org include:zohomail.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:spf.mtasv.net -all zoho-verification=zb14183429.zmverify.zoho.com

Registration1API GmbH

registrar	1API GmbH
registered	2011-10-27
expires	2030-10-27
last changed	2026-08-12
owner	Registrant of itch.io
nameservers	noah.ns.cloudflare.com dawn.ns.cloudflare.com
status	client transfer prohibited

registered 2011-10-27expires 2030-10-27

HTTPS certificate81 days left

valid	yes
issuer	Google Trust Services
covers	itch.io, *.itch.io
protocol	TLSv1.3

issued 2026-10-18expires 2027-01-16

DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → io → itch.io

Email authenticationfair

SPF	pass `v=spf1 include:mailgun.org include:zohomail.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:spf.mtasv.net -all`
DMARC	warning policy none
DKIM	none of 1 common selectors

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

Security scoregrade B · 153/205

Basic Security

10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity

Record Security

23/45missing: CAA Records, DMARC Record, DKIM Presence

Advanced Security

25/25

Domain Reputation

50/50

Threat Detection

45/45missing: Domain Age Check

Blocklists0 listings · 11 lookups

SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop172.67.69.99Barracuda172.67.69.99UCEPROTECT Level 1172.67.69.99SpamCop104.26.8.198Barracuda104.26.8.198UCEPROTECT Level 1104.26.8.198SpamCop104.26.9.198Barracuda104.26.9.198UCEPROTECT Level 1104.26.9.198

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=itch.io" \ -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=itch.io"

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

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