How is pixabay.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 16 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 403 in 49 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

49 ms

HTTPS

44 d

left on a Google Trust Services certificate

Age

16 years

registered 2010-10-07

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records5 record types

A	104.18.40.96 172.64.147.160
AAAA	2a06:98c1:3100::6812:2860 2a06:98c1:3103::ac40:93a0
MX	10 aspmx3.googlemail.com 10 aspmx2.googlemail.com 1 aspmx.l.google.com 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
NS	seth.ns.cloudflare.com adrian.ns.cloudflare.com
TXT	google-site-verification=CgYUXqGvVp2SwBCOIl9KfS_LbDZ9r2Vd2OklaRNY2ys v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com ~all facebook-domain-verification=gd4vwva3flmed8wd2axzpa1pfkxsx6 google-site-verification=O07qXSKEMkyp4znQquvnjcBraQGnlpegexQhtlk8nvc google-site-verification=OgesMKyCe9yhBJZm8kAqy-55DC8D_THwcMyB1AaeGtk google-site-verification=W54mcDR7qT7SWm0cTulBaPyZHy7rELXxyK13yBps0Yg

RegistrationGandi SAS

registrar	Gandi SAS
registered	2010-10-07
expires	2027-10-07
last changed	2026-09-06
owner	Canva Pty Ltd
nameservers	adrian.ns.cloudflare.com seth.ns.cloudflare.com
status	client transfer prohibited

registered 2010-10-07expires 2027-10-07

HTTPS certificate44 days left

valid	yes
issuer	Google Trust Services
covers	pixabay.com, .community.pixabay.com, .pixabay.com
protocol	TLSv1.3

issued 2026-09-11expires 2026-12-10

DNSSECsecure

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

. → com → pixabay.com

Email authenticationexcellent

SPF	pass `v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com ~all`
DMARC	pass policy reject
DKIM	found: google, dkim

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

Security scoregrade B · 160/205

Basic Security

10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity

Record Security

30/45missing: CAA Records, DKIM Presence

Advanced Security

25/25

Domain Reputation

50/50

Threat Detection

45/45missing: Domain Age Check

Blocklists0 listings · 8 lookups

SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop172.64.147.160Barracuda172.64.147.160UCEPROTECT Level 1172.64.147.160SpamCop104.18.40.96Barracuda104.18.40.96UCEPROTECT Level 1104.18.40.96

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=pixabay.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=pixabay.com"

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

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