How is researchgate.net?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 19 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 403 in 58 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

58 ms

HTTPS

78 d

left on a Google Trust Services certificate

Age

19 years

registered 2008-02-08

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records6 record types

A	172.64.146.247 104.18.41.9
AAAA	2a06:98c1:3106::ac40:92f7 2606:4700:4403::6812:2909
MX	10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com 1 aspmx.l.google.com 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com 10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com
NS	marty.ns.cloudflare.com val.ns.cloudflare.com
TXT	anthropic-domain-verification-08jfec=YTBMKsyajkzCM7tuK08Il8BTQ google-site-verification=adDX9Qsrt8PjtLYlL3wfJJVp_QvS36jMwtcjEPd4J9Q v=spf1 ip4:209.15.209.64/27 ip4:209.15.214.192/28 ip4:209.15.243.112/28 ip4:209.15.247.224/28 ip4:209.15.249.176/28 ip4:209.15.249.224/29 ip4:209.15.250.112/28 ip4:37.44.2.16/28 include:_spf.google.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:mail.zendesk.com include:_spf.salesforce.com ~all google-site-verification=o6Zn1HIYOJ47s1qpx6D1NYJiRORsOBrWWIKgCHozu0g atlassian-domain-verification=Nad6ba1ysA1mdnvoY0zYwoRwv6nBwSBawy/Xaexh3Vf9DcC0a74yExKioYvCdaM7 apple-domain-verification=1zVGDn699lBJWe3h
CAA	{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'globalsign.com', 'critical': 0} {'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'letsencrypt.org', 'critical': 0} {'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'pki.goog', 'critical': 0} {'type': 'CAA', 'iodef': 'mailto:security@researchgate.net', 'critical': 0}

RegistrationMesh Digital Limited

registrar	Mesh Digital Limited
registered	2008-02-08
expires	2027-02-08
last changed	2026-02-07
nameservers	marty.ns.cloudflare.com val.ns.cloudflare.com
status	client delete prohibited client transfer prohibited client update prohibited

registered 2008-02-08expires 2027-02-08

HTTPS certificate78 days left

valid	yes
issuer	Google Trust Services
covers	researchgate.net, *.researchgate.net
protocol	TLSv1.3

issued 2026-10-14expires 2027-01-12

DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → net → researchgate.net

Email authenticationexcellent

SPF	pass `v=spf1 ip4:209.15.209.64/27 ip4:209.15.214.192/28 ip4:209.15.243.112/28 ip4:209.15.247.224/28 ip4:209.15.249.176/28 ip4:209.15.249.224/29 ip4:209.15.250.112/28 ip4:37.44.2.16/28 include:_spf.google.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:mail.zendesk.com include:_spf.salesforce.com ~all`
DMARC	pass policy reject
DKIM	found: google, k1

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

Security scoregrade A · 175/205

Basic Security

10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity

Record Security

45/45missing: DKIM Presence

Advanced Security

25/25

Domain Reputation

50/50

Threat Detection

45/45missing: Domain Age Check

Blocklists0 listings · 8 lookups

SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop172.64.146.247Barracuda172.64.146.247UCEPROTECT Level 1172.64.146.247SpamCop104.18.41.9Barracuda104.18.41.9UCEPROTECT Level 1104.18.41.9

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=researchgate.net" \ -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=researchgate.net"

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

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