HOW.IS
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How is youtu.be?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 19 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 180 ms.

Why

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

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

How youtu.be looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
200
180 ms · ends at www.youtube.com
HTTPS
56 d
left on a Google Trust Services certificate
Age
19 years
registered 2007-12-24
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records6 record types
A172.253.63.93
172.253.63.190
172.253.63.136
172.253.63.91
AAAA2607:f8b0:4004:c1f::88
2607:f8b0:4004:c1f::5b
2607:f8b0:4004:c1f::5d
2607:f8b0:4004:c1f::be
MX10 gmr-smtp-in.l.google.com
0 smtp.google.com
NSns2.google.com
ns1.google.com
ns4.google.com
ns3.google.com
TXTgoogle-site-verification=2pAxAvJeUmVBMOlonVG64CJkyohWmC1IUEzV7eMshsI
v=spf1 ip4:208.117.224.0/19 ip4:208.65.152.0/22 ip4:64.15.112.0/20 include:google.com mx ~all
CAA{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'pki.goog', 'critical': 0}
RegistrationMarkmonitor Inc.
registrarMarkmonitor Inc.
registered2007-12-24
ownerhidden by privacy service
nameserversns3.google.com
ns1.google.com
ns2.google.com
ns4.google.com
statusNOT AVAILABLE
HTTPS certificate56 days left
validyes
issuerGoogle Trust Services
covers*.google.com, *.appengine.google.com, *.bdn.dev, *.origin-test.bdn.dev, *.cloud.google.com, *.crowdsource.google.com, *.datacompute.google.com, *.google.ca, *.google.cl, *.google.co.in, *.google.co.jp, *.google.co.uk
protocolTLSv1.3
issued 2026-09-28expires 2026-12-21
DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → be → youtu.be
Email authenticationgood
SPFpass v=spf1 ip4:208.117.224.0/19 ip4:208.65.152.0/22 ip4:64.15.112.0/20 include:google.com mx ~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 · 170/205
Basic Security
10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity
Record Security
45/45missing: DKIM Presence
Advanced Security
20/25missing: SOA Record Configuration
Domain Reputation
50/50
Threat Detection
45/45missing: Domain Age Check
Blocklists0 listings · 14 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop142.251.179.190Barracuda142.251.179.190UCEPROTECT Level 1142.251.179.190SpamCop142.251.179.136Barracuda142.251.179.136UCEPROTECT Level 1142.251.179.136SpamCop142.251.179.91Barracuda142.251.179.91UCEPROTECT Level 1142.251.179.91SpamCop142.251.179.93Barracuda142.251.179.93UCEPROTECT Level 1142.251.179.93

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=youtu.be" \ -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=youtu.be"

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

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