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How is wa.me?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 17 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 218 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 wa.me looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
200
218 ms · ends at api.whatsapp.com
HTTPS
8 d
left on a DigiCert Inc certificate
Age
17 years
registered 2009-07-24
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records5 record types
A31.13.66.56
AAAA2a03:2880:f203:c5:face:b00c:0:167
NSb.ns.whatsapp.net
c.ns.whatsapp.net
a.ns.whatsapp.net
d.ns.whatsapp.net
TXTgoogle-site-verification=g_0srn09J8IT5vHkTEcHfrCWRZ0Mk5NQZb35T02T8u4
v=spf1 a ~all
CAA{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'digicert.com; account=271b0beda0771d006aa3a6c11b05187d456d6c239b46cb5241196095b09c92af', 'critical': 0}
RegistrationRegistrarSafe, LLC
registrarRegistrarSafe, LLC
registered2009-07-24
expires2034-07-24
last changed2026-08-12
ownerWhatsapp Inc.
nameserversa.ns.whatsapp.net
b.ns.whatsapp.net
c.ns.whatsapp.net
d.ns.whatsapp.net
statusclient delete prohibited
server delete prohibited
client transfer prohibited
server transfer prohibited
client update prohibited
server update prohibited
registered 2009-07-24expires 2034-07-24
HTTPS certificate8 days left
validyes
issuerDigiCert Inc
covers*.whatsapp.net, *.cdn.whatsapp.net, *.snr.whatsapp.net, *.whatsapp.com, wa.me, whatsapp.com, whatsapp.net
protocolTLSv1.3
issued 2026-08-04expires 2026-11-02
DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → me → wa.me
Email authenticationpoor
SPFpass v=spf1 a ~all
DMARCnone
DKIMnone of 1 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: DMARC Record, 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 MultidomainSpamCop57.144.75.32Barracuda57.144.75.32UCEPROTECT Level 157.144.75.32

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=wa.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=wa.me"

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

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