How is usda.gov?

Not sure yet risk 0/100

Registered 29 years ago, valid HTTPS, the site answered 403 in 1195 ms.

Why

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finecarefulhigh risk

·Could not check blocklists; retry before trusting this domain.

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

403

1195 ms

HTTPS

53 d

left on a DigiCert Inc certificate

Age

29 years

registered 1997-10-02

Blocklists

listings across 2 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records2 record types

A	199.134.75.32
NS	ns1.usda.gov ns2.usda.gov

Registrationget.gov

registrar	get.gov
registered	1997-10-02
expires	2027-08-29
last changed	2026-10-08
owner	Department of Agriculture
country	United States
nameservers	ns1.usda.gov ns2.usda.gov
status	server transfer prohibited

registered 1997-10-02expires 2027-08-29

HTTPS certificate53 days left

valid	yes
issuer	DigiCert Inc
covers	www.usda.gov, usda.gov, blogs.usda.gov, fns.usda.gov, execsec.gov, cnpp.usda.gov, www.ocio.usda.gov, audioarchives.oc.usda.gov, digital.usda.gov, www.climatehubs.usda.gov, climatehubs.usda.gov, climatehubs.oce.usda.gov
protocol	TLSv1.2

issued 2026-06-05expires 2026-12-20

DNSSECindeterminate

Could not fetch DNSSEC records — status unknown, not evidence of a problem

. → gov → usda.gov

Email authenticationexcellent

SPF	pass `v=spf1 ip4:52.222.69.242 include:mailproxy1.usda.gov include:mailproxy2.usda.gov ip4:134.177.248.0/28 ip4:216.128.251.155 ip4:169.252.36.79 ip4:169.253.194.10 ip4:169.252.4.128/29 ip4:169.253.162.8/29 ip4:199.188.210.136 ip4:52.70.121.208 ip4:149.96.3.26 ip4:149.96.4.26 ip4:65.196.93.7 ip4:70.33.172.36 a:spf.servicenowservices.com include:spf-2248456.jmsend.com include:amazonses.com include:_spf.salesforce.com -all`
DMARC	pass policy reject
DKIM	found: selector2

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

Security scoregrade C · 115/190

Basic Security

10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity

Record Security

15/45missing: CAA Records, SPF Record, DKIM Presence

Advanced Security

10/25missing: SOA Record Configuration, IPv6 Support

Domain Reputation

35/35

Threat Detection

45/45missing: Domain Age Check

Blocklists0 listings · 2 lookups

SURBL MultidomainURIBL Multidomain

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=usda.gov" \ -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=usda.gov"

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

Watch usda.gov. 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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