How is kickstarter.com?
Looks fine
risk 0/100
Registered 28 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 403 in 82 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
403
82 ms
HTTPS
74 d
left on a Google Trust Services certificate
Age
28 years
registered 1998-12-15
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists
Everything we looked at
DNS records5 record types
| A | 104.18.38.159 172.64.149.97 |
|---|---|
| AAAA | 2a06:98c1:3101::6812:269f 2a06:98c1:3108::ac40:9561 |
| MX | 30 aspmx2.googlemail.com 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com 30 aspmx5.googlemail.com 30 aspmx4.googlemail.com 10 aspmx.l.google.com 30 aspmx3.googlemail.com 20 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com |
| NS | anastasia.ns.cloudflare.com isaac.ns.cloudflare.com |
| TXT | google-site-verification=EGTg-IqzZR3OIsvmSTZ_q6qG5_f2hw81qkDWGRA5Bgg rippling-domain-verification=a03b7f2c7f2e4a20 v=spf1 include:mail.zendesk.com include:_spf.google.com include:u4672.wl.sendgrid.net include:stspg-customer.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:48242793.spf08.hubspotemail.net ~all stripe-verification=5541787318b305241749573e0831951c70aefc071906aef87bef1d8fb41d0d43 atlassian-sending-domain-verification=4bae9399-63a9-4aeb-9a03-04539b9ac746 google-site-verification=7rea8KAMPCcru3jdyT6SYnBsye9-ogL4VTy06Q5zy18 ca3-153f5a81b0474c9296c0d179f8d8a836 apple-domain-verification=fr5gGEo5gbyXf30d atlassian-domain-verification=7v1jzr5l4IiiscoEpn5RnnH7C59La/FBYP5HnyWSSy7KE6MHNOFuJtbuIlKN1z97 _globalsign-domain-verification=BKiSSX_Jp9ZRTyGpUHktBKTpLbPiFodT7BzDigqQxM ca3-6bee34e8ee534152b03d8810dcd541a6 google-site-verification=3HgDNY1aQJLtSK85ov4w1Z8K-rZl__oRfXxUD3jOO_8 hubspot-domain-verification=ODJhMDNiMGEtNWJhOS00NDQzLWJmMTUtYzk5ODE5MTExZmU0 asv=d4b52ed057c910f1cd1d6ffd81b23e0c MS=ms78138665 anthropic-domain-verification-870eyt=keOSXxTYv4ATGPqj2L6Po6rmV facebook-domain-verification=1lt1x2v2lp1alxae1372s1n3qp22sp 4TOPVC9BIN9W47V870W35AKYLT86KPBCQI72Y63I status-page-domain-verification=dh06y427hlpw |
RegistrationNameCheap, Inc.
| registrar | NameCheap, Inc. |
|---|---|
| registered | 1998-12-15 |
| expires | 2027-12-14 |
| last changed | 2022-11-07 |
| owner | Privacy service provided by WITHHELD FOR PRIVACY LLC |
| nameservers | anastasia.ns.cloudflare.com isaac.ns.cloudflare.com |
| status | client transfer prohibited |
registered 1998-12-15expires 2027-12-14
HTTPS certificate74 days left
| valid | yes |
|---|---|
| issuer | Google Trust Services |
| covers | kickstarter.com, *.kickstarter.com |
| protocol | TLSv1.3 |
issued 2026-10-13expires 2027-01-11
DNSSECinsecure
Domain is not signed with DNSSEC
. → com → kickstarter.com
Email authenticationexcellent
| SPF | pass v=spf1 include:mail.zendesk.com include:_spf.google.com include:u4672.wl.sendgrid.net include:stspg-customer.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:48242793.spf08.hubspotemail.net ~all |
|---|---|
| DMARC | pass policy quarantine |
| DKIM | found: google, s1, s2, smtp |
Whether mail claiming to be from this domain can be checked as genuine.
Security scoregrade B · 160/205
Basic Security10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity
Record Security30/45missing: CAA Records, DKIM Presence
Advanced Security25/25
Domain Reputation50/50
Threat Detection45/45missing: Domain Age Check
Blocklists0 listings · 8 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop104.18.38.159Barracuda104.18.38.159UCEPROTECT Level 1104.18.38.159SpamCop172.64.149.97Barracuda172.64.149.97UCEPROTECT Level 1172.64.149.97
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=kickstarter.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=kickstarter.com"
MCP: add https://how.is/mcp to Claude, Codex or Cursor
(one-line install) and ask for domain_trust on kickstarter.com.
Reference: /llms.txt.
Watch kickstarter.com. DNS read at the source every 5 minutes; certificate, blocklists and expiry every 6 hours. You get an email only when something changes.
Watch — $1 / 30 days