How is surfshark.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 19 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 67 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

67 ms

HTTPS

43 d

left on a Google Trust Services certificate

Age

19 years

registered 2007-09-30

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records5 record types

A	104.18.120.34 104.18.121.34
AAAA	2606:4700::6812:7822 2606:4700::6812:7922
MX	10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com 1 aspmx.l.google.com 10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
NS	dale.ns.cloudflare.com dawn.ns.cloudflare.com
TXT	google-site-verification=ok7y1yBVKZsgXfQyS9pM6q44rfIRxnJy8EUBfAq7tUk google-site-verification=Mt3oKEfVGt3DxQaU5m8rYX_qzh1L8fkoeoFytgdTJGE apple-live-caller-id-lookup=com.surfshark.vpnclient.ios.SurfsharkCallFilter google-site-verification=Ye5RxsCahvxrd6Vn16NBeasGgJhNCCn7wC5b0nYxAis google-site-verification=qZNGtdnE5DRcmWR2tVP62vkQaYik1ApmNxo7OQfIxAU atlassian-domain-verification=x0tq1zEwtSVVYCejT3PcFCcYU4jVlJwkaGtFtVeZ/BVBMa3gPAAjv73QxVnwpAGJ google-site-verification=vQmfLFjS3E_tjRcA-2mAaNNxegMvDbkTLbWSINYmKKU v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.hushmail.com include:sendgrid.net ip4:65.39.178.0/24 a mx include:mail.zendesk.com include:icloud.com ~all _31ta71d8q1tn9ql9pa7snt097duxq20 google-site-verification=A_9cnQnuxy4_vUqy9s-jBs9RyKQvFmllWJeLCp28yC8 8w1qmf6bm5y6kqlrm4f4yfsr6qlnfk22 google-site-verification=5r36RkUYWySxjakYdgvwiD2SPKgdtzNx1skw5Z2S53Q google-site-verification=56-1XCIk5B7-vb0iQTstDEHDmjGr6Mu189qte-p9i5E dvyxp7dhgk108g73clvwlpjlnc3mmrhf google-site-verification=Q_yLRX95ZwWHhGnGoKioV1g4k3LMU4dXfbDPPGrppMM google-site-verification=KPfYElnIVz1bY3AAqG5v8sCPrUlY4goOw3q0gij1oTM MByF5nNrYm2ZTBJwDgKrjdLK72fAu8lmLbSQ/+2FLeo= facebook-domain-verification=cn8wifx8mlbzoa2gqc441t4o0hwusp google-site-verification=aBJMuBHgulMoaCMwLkFJ7WZ5Do0v9KQ-U_BXEIDNNX0 _8rpzuqvewgv5xw5y3uix7kch3cktss4

RegistrationTurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com

registrar	TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com
registered	2007-09-30
expires	2031-09-30
last changed	2023-04-18
nameservers	dale.ns.cloudflare.com dawn.ns.cloudflare.com
status	client transfer prohibited

registered 2007-09-30expires 2031-09-30

HTTPS certificate43 days left

valid	yes
issuer	Google Trust Services
covers	surfshark.com, *.surfshark.com
protocol	TLSv1.3

issued 2026-09-15expires 2026-12-14

DNSSECinsecure

Domain has DNSKEY but no DS record in parent zone

. → com → surfshark.com

Email authenticationexcellent

SPF	pass `v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.hushmail.com include:sendgrid.net ip4:65.39.178.0/24 a mx include:mail.zendesk.com include:icloud.com ~all`
DMARC	pass policy reject
DKIM	found: google, s1, s2

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 MultidomainSpamCop104.18.120.34Barracuda104.18.120.34UCEPROTECT Level 1104.18.120.34SpamCop104.18.121.34Barracuda104.18.121.34UCEPROTECT Level 1104.18.121.34

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=surfshark.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=surfshark.com"

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

IPv6. Does surfshark.com work over IPv6? See the live check on aaaa.bot — website, mail and nameservers, graded A–F.

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