How is www.gov.uk?

Not sure yet risk 10/100

On no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 38 ms.

Why

02050100

finecarefulhigh risk

+10The registry did not report a usable creation date.
·Could not check domain age; 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

200

38 ms

HTTPS

63 d

left on a GlobalSign nv-sa certificate

Age

creation date not reported

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records4 record types

A	151.101.128.144 151.101.192.144 151.101.0.144 151.101.64.144
AAAA	2a04:4e42:600::144 2a04:4e42:800::144 2a04:4e42:a00::144 2a04:4e42:c00::144 2a04:4e42:e00::144 2a04:4e42::144 2a04:4e42:200::144 2a04:4e42:400::144
NS	nsa.nic.uk nsb.nic.uk nsc.nic.uk nsd.nic.uk dns1.nic.uk dns2.nic.uk dns3.nic.uk dns4.nic.uk
TXT	v=spf1 -all #Timestamp: 1793000400 d1v9gv6rnax070.cloudfront.net security_contact=https://vulnerability-reporting.service.security.gov.uk _globalsign-domain-verification=a5p69EoJN9T_qv6CU2Y_FkAocR4FJpRN84165hHR25

RegistrationNominet UK

registrar	Nominet UK
last changed	2026-10-26
nameservers	dns1.nic.uk. dns2.nic.uk. dns3.nic.uk. dns4.nic.uk. nsa.nic.uk. nsb.nic.uk. nsc.nic.uk. nsd.nic.uk.
status	server update prohibited server delete prohibited server transfer prohibited

HTTPS certificate63 days left

valid	yes
issuer	GlobalSign nv-sa
covers	www.gov.uk, .businesslink.gov.uk, .direct.gov.uk, .publishing.service.gov.uk, .cabinet-office.gov.uk, assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk, service.gov.uk, data.gov.uk, dfid.gov.uk, cabinet-office.gov.uk, api.gov.uk, www.data.gov.uk
protocol	TLSv1.3

issued 2025-11-26expires 2026-12-28

DNSSECsecure

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

. → uk → gov.uk

Email authenticationgood

SPF	pass `v=spf1 -all`
DMARC	pass policy reject
DKIM	found: default, google, selector1, selector2, k1, s1, s2, dkim, mail, email, smtp, mx, resend, fm1, fm2, fm3, protonmail, protonmail2, protonmail3, sig1

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

Security scoregrade B · 145/205

Basic Security

10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity

Record Security

30/45missing: CAA Records, DKIM Presence

Advanced Security

10/25missing: Mail Server Configuration, SOA Record Configuration

Domain Reputation

50/50

Threat Detection

45/45missing: Domain Age Check

Blocklists0 listings · 14 lookups

SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop151.101.192.144Barracuda151.101.192.144UCEPROTECT Level 1151.101.192.144SpamCop151.101.128.144Barracuda151.101.128.144UCEPROTECT Level 1151.101.128.144SpamCop151.101.0.144Barracuda151.101.0.144UCEPROTECT Level 1151.101.0.144SpamCop151.101.64.144Barracuda151.101.64.144UCEPROTECT Level 1151.101.64.144

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.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=www.gov.uk"

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

Watch www.gov.uk. 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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