How is www.gov.cn?

Be careful risk 30/100

No valid HTTPS certificate, the site answered 200 in 683 ms.

Why

02050100

finecarefulhigh risk

+10Could not read the domain's registration record.
+20No valid HTTPS certificate.

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

200

683 ms

HTTPS

invalid

Could not resolve host (ENODATA)

Age

creation date not reported

Blocklists

listings across 2 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records1 record types

NS	a.dns.cn b.dns.cn c.dns.cn d.dns.cn e.dns.cn cns.cernet.net

Registrationregistrar not reported

HTTPS certificatenot valid

valid	no
problem	Could not resolve host (ENODATA)

DNSSECsecure

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

. → cn → gov.cn

Email authenticationpoor

SPF	none
DMARC	none
DKIM	none of 1 common selectors

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

Security scoregrade C · 110/190

Basic Security

20/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled

Record Security

0/45missing: CAA Records, SPF Record, DMARC Record, DKIM Presence

Advanced Security

10/25missing: Mail Server 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=www.gov.cn" \ -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=www.gov.cn"

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

IPv6. Does www.gov.cn work over IPv6? See the live check on aaaa.bot — website, mail and nameservers, graded A–F.

Watch www.gov.cn. 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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