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How is thesun.co.uk?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 29 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 630 ms.

Why

02050100
finecarefulhigh risk
  • ·Nothing in the checks added risk.

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

How thesun.co.uk looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
200
630 ms · ends at www.thesun.co.uk
HTTPS
86 d
left on a Let's Encrypt certificate
Age
29 years
registered 1997-05-19
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records4 record types
A192.0.66.2
MX1 mxa-00596a01.gslb.pphosted.com
10 mxb-00596a01.gslb.pphosted.com
NSns-1478.awsdns-56.org
ns-1970.awsdns-54.co.uk
ns-405.awsdns-50.com
ns-640.awsdns-16.net
TXT00d20000000cog5eao
6j2pfjlk25t2mbgjtqv5gq3hmchtrkwf
MS=ms48418918
ValidationTokenValue=2a79563d-5a1e-4202-9cb0-a418f81c5166
ZOOM_verify_02A0JDVORdqHbeawnzucYg
adobe-idp-site-verification=627d3f0b-a0d9-4a42-93c9-52d7e9b35602
atlassian-domain-verification=uNoIhBXurxzVlQa0FvK2t9Yld5byfvXbFRQaMToGvrieKjBdylMs8jcSXRKQKqao
figma-domain-verification=b411f1d2852c2c7e057a2d6d70fb22896f37ccc1412d1e1bb4f9da14e2b78ad9-1769000244
google-site-verification=03Y2kKMdenvUPoEswcV75nBxRUfMR2F7nu4Ym2Bj9Cg
google-site-verification=51m6lrrVo632ZuCqs4SqZZ6N5n6T9_goU9aaf40P0tE
google-site-verification=8NQNb3fg0E9f3H0p4HnMV0qFgY9ZMPwignjAgYmCllI
google-site-verification=B0ZYMWDxLa5XxtE_cbGUpwtB07xOSb3hRXsVU4rL_88
google-site-verification=D1F-vgfcPF7Tu6VDTyDxeeWVaHvOvw_HmDba3Iea-3g
google-site-verification=S4cYKZ1Loesq-BgxfX_ddNqvD8vfhDneE_1tD8CE-YA
google-site-verification=V3d6HoAVyohf82CQPLv2n7K3M-vZeKAa0O5viYf41uY
google-site-verification=a576LGe3E0YA5QjAMY268jcuKWwPLIORxwlTMrjnfnE
google-site-verification=eixRLq6ZFPfabL_W12if1QGJxwbBXFQhFO5J0Vc27EE
google-site-verification=gb4PdUXv8Z6Zo_IcEDeNZoFhph7P4Yo7NFZTc2CLIY0
google-site-verification=hc4Vrp8sPUek7njgfxNHum9CXmJ0OnmTjwXdlxRKxZE
google-site-verification=ktbIDvT70_hbFNTapMeOkJ5BkjqY5hO7HRFtkB0yzHc
google-site-verification=yrJcP_0hr0wOFdsxjyzctmwWP8_ZtQDxmg6oMhtjGRo
knowbe4-site-verification=0694ce74005828dc4bb8b7299bfb6f61
miro-verification=876fd2e87e812aadd96eca532bf071be63109b0e
sfv90rs4tcf2wkhcl2tnj311z1z5zn1g
v=spf1 include:%{ir}.%{v}.%{d}.spf.has.pphosted.com ~all
RegistrationMarkmonitor Inc.
registrarMarkmonitor Inc.
registered1997-05-19
expires2028-05-19
last changed2026-04-17
nameserversns-1478.awsdns-56.org.
ns-1970.awsdns-54.co.uk.
ns-405.awsdns-50.com.
ns-640.awsdns-16.net.
statusserver delete prohibited
server transfer prohibited
server update prohibited
registered 1997-05-19expires 2028-05-19
HTTPS certificate86 days left
validyes
issuerLet's Encrypt
coversiframe.thesun.co.uk, thesun.co.uk, www.thesun.co.uk
protocolTLSv1.3
issued 2026-10-28expires 2027-01-26
DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → uk → co.uk → thesun.co.uk
Email authenticationexcellent
SPFpass v=spf1 include:%{ir}.%{v}.%{d}.spf.has.pphosted.com ~all
DMARCpass policy reject
DKIMfound: google

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

Security scoregrade B · 165/205
Basic Security
20/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled
Record Security
30/45missing: CAA Records, DKIM Presence
Advanced Security
20/25missing: IPv6 Support
Domain Reputation
50/50
Threat Detection
45/45missing: Domain Age Check
Blocklists0 listings · 5 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop192.0.66.2Barracuda192.0.66.2UCEPROTECT Level 1192.0.66.2

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=thesun.co.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=thesun.co.uk"

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

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