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How is va.gov?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 29 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 790 ms.

Why

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

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

How va.gov looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
200
790 ms · ends at www.va.gov
HTTPS
79 d
left on a Sectigo Limited certificate
Age
29 years
registered 1997-10-02
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records5 record types
A152.130.96.221
AAAA2600:8030:0:28::30:221
MX10 mx20.va.gov
NSns4x.va.gov
ns3x.va.gov
ns2x.va.gov
ns1x.va.gov
TXTm6SyqGL+aO06ndrOtI3kDiZQFVKqPWAGXV+ygrs7DMs=
_ymhmp4c6qowov1llhzi4znjsgw7klp9
docusign=1df408c8-ae62-42aa-81fb-cbacef5c7561
_g65hac0k2llewp5lwelol64cava4kpd
iwIqL1PYelzu9mfBv8t6UAmaBw1PFaM5w0LM/0gDrTOHD9lq2P6biza3ebVIxm4PJbbupeZlfQMuJvETxwQIgg==
tbi14aj28g0up3db1th77u1h1s
v=spf1 mx ip4:152.130.26.32/27 ip4:152.131.26.32/27 ip4:152.132.26.32/27 ip4:152.133.26.32/27 ip4:152.129.0.0/16 ip6:2600:8000:0:10::0/112 ip6:2600:8010:0:10::0/112 ip6:2600:8020:0:10::0/112 ip6:2600:8030:0:10::0/112 -all
adobe-idp-site-verification=021f36dcd17c888ff7efe04d03905876a7443340c8a69372bf05ed3c05629453
google-site-verification=RkAwuvE_HJPBMMNduSFoIOZBXDdFYV8pyziOb8CoqUU
_a2zmtnzoyxqxncboz0a1hpfuzoypdcn
_44pf4890rcbprrl4m69yuzocued8hj3
docusign=31552c45-f8a2-4607-9542-acf2c7b6ddff
_wtr5wi36gb1j1ijpaq6dwiysi8h03go
_5ri78mzgbmvox0mvm8ou5wxkmpx9woh
_w1ybjynlrsafrjumudrp5ilvgsom6hq
adobe-sign-verification=594d4411032f090b796289d2ed5a659c3e7fd6cf516a1db7d459b3c63029d191
MS=ms28494616
webexdomainverification.4NWTE=159c226b-8398-4ffd-8683-22977242d145
Registrationget.gov
registrarget.gov
registered1997-10-02
expires2027-08-04
last changed2026-08-14
ownerDepartment of Veterans Affairs
countryUnited States
nameserversns1x.va.gov
ns2x.va.gov
ns3x.va.gov
ns4x.va.gov
statusserver transfer prohibited
registered 1997-10-02expires 2027-08-04
HTTPS certificate79 days left
validyes
issuerSectigo Limited
coverswww.va.gov, va.gov
protocolTLSv1.2
issued 2025-12-20expires 2027-01-18
DNSSECsecure

Domain is properly signed — chain validated by an independent validating resolver

. → gov → va.gov
Email authenticationgood
SPFpass v=spf1 mx ip4:152.130.26.32/27 ip4:152.131.26.32/27 ip4:152.132.26.32/27 ip4:152.133.26.32/27 ip4:152.129.0.0/16 ip6:2600:8000:0:10::0/112 ip6:2600:8010:0:10::0/112 ip6:2600:8020:0:10::0/112 ip6:2600:8030:0:10::0/112 -all
DMARCpass policy reject
DKIMnone of 1 common selectors

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

Security scoregrade B · 155/205
Basic Security
10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity
Record Security
30/45missing: CAA Records, DKIM Presence
Advanced Security
20/25missing: Mail Server Configuration
Domain Reputation
50/50
Threat Detection
45/45missing: Domain Age Check
Blocklists0 listings · 5 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop152.133.106.221Barracuda152.133.106.221UCEPROTECT Level 1152.133.106.221

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=va.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=va.gov"

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

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