How is zdnet.com?

Looks fine risk 0/100

Registered 32 years ago, on no blocklists we checked, valid HTTPS, the site answered 200 in 848 ms.

Why

02050100

finecarefulhigh risk

·Nothing in the checks added risk.

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

848 ms · ends at www.zdnet.com

HTTPS

29 d

left on a Let's Encrypt certificate

Age

32 years

registered 1995-04-27

Blocklists

listings across 5 lists

Everything we looked at

DNS records5 record types

A	192.0.66.145
AAAA	2a04:fa87:fffd::c000:4291
MX	1 smtp.google.com
NS	owen.ns.cloudflare.com aria.ns.cloudflare.com
TXT	tollbit-domain-verification=ed765eec87445a9c7fc97d88202a4e247d115ec1dcce8b2855644de232baa795 qb5l10tv3ifansmtg2j67ls4vm google-site-verification=0MpBgJlty0QJTSbL0NsxKSMQao7AtbMttqQqLBpnuqo gpu99tm7bpjr5ffe6j6lff9c6g openai-domain-verification=dv-4I5bt1RLb1irQk2oZZb9k5PZ amazonses:tf7PxlKrP5loKZqpIoiHCfuwRc9LWPN35B8KBlvXYvU= canva-site-verification=Dq2WPizCkBmFzG8pX1jdkQ workplace-domain-verification=q8l8dtiG9ONhEmL8nIvj0Z5L2D5A3i google-site-verification=pYonWwLh0y5UIPReObylCHtCWHGz9YmWq9OI0NnlEOk google-site-verification=OEcQCk6m6XyHagDu-7BnHevLzPmjK8VLrehu0rHHPGs MS=ms65532728 v=spf1 mx ip4:64.30.227.218 ip4:64.30.226.54/31 ip4:74.125.148.0/22 ip4:216.239.125.28/23 ip4:202.73.54.176/28 ip4:58.65.7.128/28 ip4:62.108.138.0/28 ip4:216.239.114.214/23 ip4:216.239.114.222/23 include:_spf.google.com include:spf-00262c01.pphosted.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all google-site-verification=VvA5ip4lC7mt45ap9Ra_PNfXXe3OgEsWiV3ZySfTRKI figma-domain-verification=4f7cdfa45ca39f617dd7ba7b165e1bfd5e9b5e1ec18b849c6098dfdc4a4cfa64-1740511309 facebook-domain-verification=qxzu4bw9l67g1b59xbja9fqgyetsfq anthropic-domain-verification-4sn0p2=1S8SKrvmazJTSpSOW0ZEUoQHj atlassian-domain-verification=QUsZX4LdPWTYZgx09JhShFot27EJnUl/5CyxXFsiGebXl2QD8Fh3zzfkYZJe42Ic amazonses:kWgTT8gEghPg1NxciZwhrB3xu+jSMwW8T80qgRg5Kyw= knowbe4-site-verification=f250b2a70f1bef3a0d3e9e990a25ada0 adobe-idp-site-verification=b6e27597198dfc9921fbe2ad78e9a76012bb17d0ddb65389e600ecb80de9a555

RegistrationCSC Corporate Domains, Inc.

registrar	CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
registered	1995-04-27
expires	2029-04-28
last changed	2026-06-30
owner	Ziff Davis LLC
nameservers	aria.ns.cloudflare.com owen.ns.cloudflare.com
status	client transfer prohibited

registered 1995-04-27expires 2029-04-28

HTTPS certificate29 days left

valid	yes
issuer	Let's Encrypt
covers	www.zdnet.com, zdnet.com
protocol	TLSv1.3

issued 2026-09-01expires 2026-11-30

DNSSECinsecure

Domain is not signed with DNSSEC

. → com → zdnet.com

Email authenticationexcellent

SPF	pass `v=spf1 mx ip4:64.30.227.218 ip4:64.30.226.54/31 ip4:74.125.148.0/22 ip4:216.239.125.28/23 ip4:202.73.54.176/28 ip4:58.65.7.128/28 ip4:62.108.138.0/28 ip4:216.239.114.214/23 ip4:216.239.114.222/23 include:_spf.google.com include:spf-00262c01.pphosted.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all`
DMARC	pass policy reject
DKIM	found: google, selector1, selector2

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

Security scoregrade B · 155/205

Basic Security

10/40missing: DNSSEC Enabled, Nameserver Diversity

Record Security

30/45missing: CAA Records, DKIM Presence

Advanced Security

20/25missing: Mail Server Configuration

Domain Reputation

50/50

Threat Detection

45/45missing: Domain Age Check

Blocklists0 listings · 5 lookups

SURBL MultidomainURIBL MultidomainSpamCop192.0.66.145Barracuda192.0.66.145UCEPROTECT Level 1192.0.66.145

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=zdnet.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=zdnet.com"

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

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

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