How is service.gov.uk?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 14 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 64 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

200

64 ms · ends at www.gov.uk

HTTPS

62 d

left on a GlobalSign nv-sa certificate

Age

14 years

registered 2013-03-07

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records3 record types

A	151.101.64.144 151.101.192.144 151.101.128.144 151.101.0.144
NS	ns-1983.awsdns-55.co.uk ns-1080.awsdns-07.org ns-831.awsdns-39.net ns-117.awsdns-14.com ns-cloud-e4.googledomains.com ns-cloud-e2.googledomains.com ns-cloud-e1.googledomains.com ns-cloud-e3.googledomains.com
TXT	fastly-domain-delegation-JBg47VZvrGTeGKBK-746391-2024-03-08 00801152 00535383 00451380 v=spf1 -all

RegistrationJisc Services Limited

registrar	Jisc Services Limited
registered	2013-03-07
expires	2028-03-07
last changed	2026-07-22
owner	Government Digital Service
nameservers	ns-1080.awsdns-07.org ns-117.awsdns-14.com ns-1983.awsdns-55.co.uk ns-831.awsdns-39.net ns-cloud-e1.googledomains.com ns-cloud-e2.googledomains.com ns-cloud-e3.googledomains.com ns-cloud-e4.googledomains.com
status	server update prohibited server delete prohibited

registered 2013-03-07expires 2028-03-07

HTTPS certificate62 days left

valid	yes
issuer	GlobalSign nv-sa
covers	www.gov.uk, .businesslink.gov.uk, .direct.gov.uk, .publishing.service.gov.uk, .cabinet-office.gov.uk, assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk, service.gov.uk, data.gov.uk, dfid.gov.uk, cabinet-office.gov.uk, api.gov.uk, www.data.gov.uk
protocol	TLSv1.3

issued 2025-11-26expires 2026-12-28

DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → uk → gov.uk → service.gov.uk

Email authenticationfair

SPF	pass `v=spf1 -all`
DMARC	pass policy reject
DKIM	none of 1 common selectors

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

Security scoregrade B · 155/205

Basic Security

20/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled

Record Security

30/45missing: CAA Records, DKIM Presence

Advanced Security

10/25missing: Mail Server Configuration, IPv6 Support

Domain Reputation

50/50

Threat Detection

45/45missing: Domain Age Check

Blocklists0 listings · 14 lookups

SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop151.101.128.144Barracuda151.101.128.144UCEPROTECT Level 1151.101.128.144SpamCop151.101.192.144Barracuda151.101.192.144UCEPROTECT Level 1151.101.192.144SpamCop151.101.64.144Barracuda151.101.64.144UCEPROTECT Level 1151.101.64.144SpamCop151.101.0.144Barracuda151.101.0.144UCEPROTECT Level 1151.101.0.144

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=service.gov.uk" \ -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=service.gov.uk"

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

Watch service.gov.uk. 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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