HOW.IS
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How is t.me?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 16 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 555 ms.

Why

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finecarefulhigh risk
  • ·Nothing in the checks added risk.

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

How t.me looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
200
555 ms · ends at telegram.org
HTTPS
27 d
left on a GoDaddy.com, Inc. certificate
Age
16 years
registered 2010-05-20
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records4 record types
A149.154.167.99
AAAA2001:67c:4e8:f004::9
NSns-cloud-b1.googledomains.com
ns-cloud-b4.googledomains.com
ns-cloud-b2.googledomains.com
ns-cloud-b3.googledomains.com
TXTv=spf1 -all
RegistrationGoDaddy.com, LLC
registrarGoDaddy.com, LLC
registered2010-05-20
expires2035-05-20
last changed2026-08-11
ownerDomains By Proxy, LLC
nameserversns-cloud-b1.googledomains.com
ns-cloud-b2.googledomains.com
ns-cloud-b3.googledomains.com
ns-cloud-b4.googledomains.com
statusclient delete prohibited
client renew prohibited
client transfer prohibited
client update prohibited
delete prohibited
transfer prohibited
renew prohibited
update prohibited
registered 2010-05-20expires 2035-05-20
HTTPS certificate27 days left
validyes
issuerGoDaddy.com, Inc.
covers*.t.me, t.me
protocolTLSv1.3
issued 2025-10-21expires 2026-11-22
DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → me → t.me
Email authenticationfair
SPFpass v=spf1 -all
DMARCpass policy reject
DKIMnone of 20 common selectors

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
Domain Reputation
50/50
Threat Detection
45/45missing: Domain Age Check
Blocklists0 listings · 5 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop149.154.167.99Barracuda149.154.167.99UCEPROTECT Level 1149.154.167.99

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=t.me" \ -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=t.me"

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

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