How is politico.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 28 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 403 in 62 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

62 ms

HTTPS

123 d

left on a Amazon certificate

Age

28 years

registered 1998-09-18

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records4 record types

A	184.194.197.65 184.193.183.211 3.214.229.245
MX	0 politico-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
NS	ns-1470.awsdns-55.org ns-2040.awsdns-63.co.uk ns-493.awsdns-61.com ns-630.awsdns-14.net
TXT	Validity-DomainVerification=PqU8+nGHDs4sIVWhKoz3CVCR6= _hbzwdh687hpsz72nv3jx4fy9jvk3uma _v9pik7v1gfenf1ucpu61ehlik937jba adobe-idp-site-verification=4f750abf8795bb604b0e0dd686732d076d93803445050a2835a9bb7ee2b867a6 anthropic-domain-verification-jqrms9=cjC0vy6nOGhdoeuThGi2l2TtW apple-domain-verification=JEjvEkKLPVduVSwb atlassian-domain-verification=21oo0aGAb1lJW/vr5U9YLXn8jVLsyEElq0SBZePzrJ8O9qsN3p6LfMTsDYZuD3Dw atlassian-domain-verification=EnHue3UwYSfo4DXgk/Bvg3WcQ2JVjyt6zf38Dox2HOZXlTSpjtg1iNnMasAJ3GsD cloudflare_dashboard_sso=ff8f62ca4de87e644605d75057ad2a7d google-site-verification=fqnZqZYyeQR7-coW6KwihGcoPvmnTs1tZrmWTjIc2os jamf-site-verification=gVTL5cDs9vNo5W39Yn9RGA k13qmwd1360v3nwct2ms3krfr60vkbq1 notion-domain-verification=Wsv21q4dYnipAODX3qfW5M1QQiejnCgGH9rRVEPAl0b openai-domain-verification=dv-w17OR4nutT72n8u24C9cNhID twilio-domain-verification=853b9bd6f621d45eb7ee7a6389e3a1cc v=spf1 a include:_spf.salesforce.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.qualtrics.com include:_spf.psm.knowbe4.com include:spf.us1.defend.egress.com ip4:216.250.232.21 ip4:208.86.168.7 ip4:135.84.68.123 ip4:68.232.198.10 include:9f4fe3.workshop-spf.net ~all wiz-domain-verification=43fab5c33d334c2e156e520ed9064288a3aadcf8f32d2ea1e2060391650759a1

RegistrationRegister.com - Network Solutions, LLC

registrar	Register.com - Network Solutions, LLC
registered	1998-09-18
expires	2027-09-17
last changed	2026-09-18
owner	hidden by privacy service
nameservers	ns-1470.awsdns-55.org ns-2040.awsdns-63.co.uk ns-493.awsdns-61.com ns-630.awsdns-14.net
status	client transfer prohibited

registered 1998-09-18expires 2027-09-17

HTTPS certificate123 days left

valid	yes
issuer	Amazon
covers	*.politico.com, politico.com
protocol	TLSv1.2

issued 2026-02-04expires 2027-03-05

DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → com → politico.com

Email authenticationexcellent

SPF	pass `v=spf1 a include:_spf.salesforce.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.qualtrics.com include:_spf.psm.knowbe4.com include:spf.us1.defend.egress.com ip4:216.250.232.21 ip4:208.86.168.7 ip4:135.84.68.123 ip4:68.232.198.10 include:9f4fe3.workshop-spf.net ~all`
DMARC	pass policy quarantine
DKIM	found: selector2, k1, s1, s2, mx

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

Security scoregrade B · 160/205

Basic Security

20/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled

Record Security

30/45missing: CAA Records, DKIM Presence

Advanced Security

15/25missing: Mail Server Configuration, IPv6 Support

Domain Reputation

50/50

Threat Detection

45/45missing: Domain Age Check

Blocklists0 listings · 11 lookups

SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop184.193.183.211Barracuda184.193.183.211UCEPROTECT Level 1184.193.183.211SpamCop184.194.197.65Barracuda184.194.197.65UCEPROTECT Level 1184.194.197.65SpamCop3.214.229.245Barracuda3.214.229.245UCEPROTECT Level 13.214.229.245

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=politico.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=politico.com"

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

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