How is sciencedirect.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 30 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site did not answer (refused).

Why

02050100

finecarefulhigh risk

·Nothing in the checks added risk.

Rule-based: domain age, blocklists, TLS. A heuristic, not a guarantee.

Site

down

refused

HTTPS

88 d

left on a Google Trust Services certificate

Age

30 years

registered 1997-03-12

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records4 record types

A	203.22.241.9 203.22.241.10 203.22.241.8 203.22.241.11
MX	10 sciencedirect-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
NS	elmo.ns.cloudflare.com sofia.ns.cloudflare.com
TXT	_globalsign-domain-verification=HFLbkoXvVlFiyLnMm91Nto2Ywh56_e4VOrfGV5fAsN DEp7qMu+ohOBEn42vkt+jYjp/8PMYaqualiDOigSRdWnOQQcxQuPrQoej/VUoJ7jbXfKKo0VbFyGJoaJlcILHg== _globalsign-domain-verification=y-pxBHDcjJk617gDyE7Tn_Gaxd9CiRc2tfts504Exg MS=ms66274496 f92b5d99-6557-4f2a-9a4e-41b9cce227d2 v=spf1 ip4:80.64.57.21/30 a:rsevps20.ritense.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com ~all d7807cbd-1201-468d-a943-4e505c51a6a4

RegistrationSafeNames Ltd.

registrar	SafeNames Ltd.
registered	1997-03-12
expires	2031-03-13
last changed	2025-10-14
nameservers	elmo.ns.cloudflare.com sofia.ns.cloudflare.com
status	client delete prohibited client transfer prohibited client update prohibited

registered 1997-03-12expires 2031-03-13

HTTPS certificate88 days left

valid	yes
issuer	Google Trust Services
covers	sciencedirect.com, .sciencedirect.com, .pendo.sciencedirect.com
protocol	TLSv1.3

issued 2026-10-24expires 2027-01-22

DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → com → sciencedirect.com

Email authenticationexcellent

SPF	pass `v=spf1 ip4:80.64.57.21/30 a:rsevps20.ritense.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com ~all`
DMARC	pass policy reject
DKIM	found: s1, s2

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

Security scoregrade B · 150/205

Basic Security

10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity

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 · 14 lookups

SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop203.22.241.11Barracuda203.22.241.11UCEPROTECT Level 1203.22.241.11SpamCop203.22.241.10Barracuda203.22.241.10UCEPROTECT Level 1203.22.241.10SpamCop203.22.241.9Barracuda203.22.241.9UCEPROTECT Level 1203.22.241.9SpamCop203.22.241.8Barracuda203.22.241.8UCEPROTECT Level 1203.22.241.8

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=sciencedirect.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=sciencedirect.com"

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

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