How is namecheap.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 26 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 403 in 76 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

76 ms

HTTPS

75 d

left on a Sectigo Limited certificate

Age

26 years

registered 2000-08-11

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records4 record types

A	104.19.251.10 104.19.250.10
MX	5 mx1.jellyfish.systems 10 mx2.jellyfish.systems
NS	edns4.ultradns.com edns4.ultradns.biz edns4.registrar-servers.com edns4.ultradns.org edns4.ultradns.net edns3.registrar-servers.com
TXT	v=spf1 include:spf1.namecheap.com include:spf2.namecheap.com include:spf-nc.privateemail.com include:sendgrid.net include:spf-nc.jellyfish.systems -all globalsign-domain-verification=9IwJwBa4cfjFRownZHWxBtv21P5QuXroH_ZrIWmvqM yahoo-verification-key=WWu7/hgj9CV3k2+1t9k94s456z6mTqHOvGdt6CKWTi4= hns-claim:aakif5unuzgoaoztsqujbzfhc4cjnrya74r74ahuaeaaaaaaaaaklzaororjdpl6qzexi75h7ofhv447lownw5btzuxvs4ibaaaab752t3ca google-site-verification=2zH8TNnz-JALXYmIB309dix4LPYey-SPMQj2yu1Va_4 openai-domain-verification=dv-nzpPIn2PMxc0b2Kazv6lMtow facebook-domain-verification=z95hqqfw34i56wtw5o7ip9sf1th7el MS=1BD7F007845478F3BA673E8FA2D4689B312DC9CE keybase-site-verification=oRJHb7cBsvrIdTMCGlT3jxss459fJJd73l3_tkiOO4M google-site-verification=bxo8mFhV_3Y2-DJgjRZN9cwuldhh31Gd9mMABE0lisY have-i-been-pwned-verification=a96c401cc6560fd9b5f137ad78bf04bb loaderio=67a010db9b99ffbc7602d3ffa2e3d5b1 duo_sso_verification=ORDGFim8G2frzKmuDlbgRfgoj08kTENWnm5rdLbf32d2NKPVpwoSD9IIipWbBOak anthropic-domain-verification-21v4aw=1w3w8knDs6iZ4pWIPKMr01W9F 856735726-6999718

RegistrationNameCheap, Inc.

registrar	NameCheap, Inc.
registered	2000-08-11
expires	2032-08-11
last changed	2026-09-28
owner	Privacy service provided by WITHHELD FOR PRIVACY LLC
nameservers	edns3.registrar-servers.com edns4.registrar-servers.com edns4.ultradns.biz edns4.ultradns.com edns4.ultradns.net edns4.ultradns.org
status	client transfer prohibited server delete prohibited server transfer prohibited server update prohibited

registered 2000-08-11expires 2032-08-11

HTTPS certificate75 days left

valid	yes
issuer	Sectigo Limited
covers	www.namecheap.com, namecheap.com
protocol	TLSv1.3

issued 2025-12-18expires 2027-01-09

DNSSECsecure

Domain is properly signed — chain validated by an independent validating resolver

. → com → namecheap.com

Email authenticationexcellent

SPF	pass `v=spf1 include:spf1.namecheap.com include:spf2.namecheap.com include:spf-nc.privateemail.com include:sendgrid.net include:spf-nc.jellyfish.systems -all`
DMARC	pass policy reject
DKIM	found: default, s1, s2

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

Security scoregrade B · 165/205

Basic Security

20/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled

Record Security

30/45missing: CAA Records, DKIM Presence

Advanced Security

20/25missing: IPv6 Support

Domain Reputation

50/50

Threat Detection

45/45missing: Domain Age Check

Blocklists0 listings · 8 lookups

SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop104.19.250.10Barracuda104.19.250.10UCEPROTECT Level 1104.19.250.10SpamCop104.19.251.10Barracuda104.19.251.10UCEPROTECT Level 1104.19.251.10

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=namecheap.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=namecheap.com"

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

Watch namecheap.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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