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How is youtube.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 22 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 160 ms.

Why

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

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

How youtube.com looks right now
The home page, rendered by how.is in a sandboxed browser. Nothing on it is clickable here.
Site
200
160 ms · ends at www.youtube.com
HTTPS
55 d
left on a Google Trust Services certificate
Age
22 years
registered 2005-02-15
Blocklists
0
listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records6 record types
A173.194.45.91
173.194.45.190
173.194.45.93
173.194.45.136
AAAA2607:f8b0:4004:c23::be
2607:f8b0:4004:c23::5b
2607:f8b0:4004:c23::88
2607:f8b0:4004:c23::5d
MX0 smtp.google.com
NSns4.google.com
ns1.google.com
ns3.google.com
ns2.google.com
TXTv=spf1 include:google.com mx -all
facebook-domain-verification=64jdes7le4h7e7lfpi22rijygx58j1
google-site-verification=QtQWEwHWM8tHiJ4s-jJWzEQrD_fF3luPnpzNDH-Nw-w
CAA{'type': 'CAA', 'issue': 'pki.goog', 'critical': 0}
RegistrationMarkMonitor Inc.
registrarMarkMonitor Inc.
registered2005-02-15
expires2027-02-15
last changed2026-01-14
ownerREDACTED FOR PRIVACY
nameserversns1.google.com
ns2.google.com
ns3.google.com
ns4.google.com
statusclient delete prohibited
client transfer prohibited
client update prohibited
server delete prohibited
server transfer prohibited
server update prohibited
registered 2005-02-15expires 2027-02-15
HTTPS certificate55 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

. → com → youtube.com
Email authenticationgood
SPFpass v=spf1 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 · 165/205
Basic Security
10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity
Record Security
45/45missing: DKIM Presence
Advanced Security
15/25missing: Mail Server Configuration, SOA Record Configuration
Domain Reputation
50/50
Threat Detection
45/45missing: Domain Age Check
Blocklists0 listings · 14 lookups
SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop142.251.163.136Barracuda142.251.163.136UCEPROTECT Level 1142.251.163.136SpamCop142.251.163.91Barracuda142.251.163.91UCEPROTECT Level 1142.251.163.91SpamCop142.251.163.93Barracuda142.251.163.93UCEPROTECT Level 1142.251.163.93SpamCop142.251.163.190Barracuda142.251.163.190UCEPROTECT Level 1142.251.163.190

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=youtube.com" \ -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=youtube.com"

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

Watch youtube.com. 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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