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github.com

2 things worth fixing

Nothing is broken today. These weaken the domain or will bite later.

Delegation

8 nameservers

OK

The domain delegates to these nameservers. Two or more, on separate infrastructure, is the usual minimum for resilience.

dns1.p08.nsone.net.
dns2.p08.nsone.net.
dns3.p08.nsone.net.
dns4.p08.nsone.net.
ns-1283.awsdns-32.org.
ns-1707.awsdns-21.co.uk.
ns-421.awsdns-52.com.
ns-520.awsdns-01.net.

Registration

The registration expires in 37 days

Warning

Far enough away to be calm about, close enough to confirm that auto-renew is on and the payment method is current.

Expires 2026-10-09

Registered 2007-10-09

OK

The domain is about 18 years old. Age is one of the weaker signals receivers use when deciding whether new mail from a domain is trustworthy.

DNSSEC

DNSSEC is not enabled

Info

Answers for this domain are not cryptographically signed, so a resolver cannot prove they were not tampered with in transit. This is still the common case on the internet and is not a fault.

Fix: If your DNS host supports it, enabling DNSSEC is usually one switch plus a DS record at your registrar.

Mail routing

1 mail exchangers

OK

Mail for this domain is delivered to these hosts, lowest preference number first.

0 github-com.mail.protection.outlook.com.

SPF

SPF is at the limit — 10 of 10 lookups

Warning

The record is valid, and it has no headroom. RFC 7208 allows ten DNS-consuming terms and this uses all ten, so adding one more sending service will push it over the limit. Past that, receivers stop evaluating and treat the check as failed — mail that should pass will not.

Fix: Make room before you need it. Remove senders you no longer use, or replace the deepest include: with the explicit ip4: ranges it resolves to, which cost nothing.

10 lookups across the include tree
v=spf1 ip4:192.30.252.0/22 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_netblocks.google.com include:_netblocks2.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:mktomail.com include:sendgrid.net ip4:62.253.227.114 ip4:166.78.69.169 ip4:166.78.69.170 ip4:166.78.71.131 ~all

DMARC

DMARC policy is p=quarantine

OK

Receivers are asked to quarantine failing mail, usually to the spam folder.

v=DMARC1; p=quarantine; sp=reject; pct=100; rua=mailto:dmarc@github.com; ruf=mailto:dmarc@github.com; fo=1

DKIM

DKIM keys found at 6 selectors

OK

Mail signed with these keys can be verified by receivers. Other selectors may also exist — this is a probe of common names, not a complete list.

google._domainkey.github.com
selector1._domainkey.github.com
k1._domainkey.github.com
k2._domainkey.github.com
s1._domainkey.github.com
s2._domainkey.github.com

Mail transport security

No MTA-STS policy

Info

Mail to this domain is encrypted only if the sending server chooses to. An attacker positioned between the two servers can strip the offer of TLS and the mail is delivered in plain text, with no error shown to anyone.

Fix: Publish an MTA-STS policy and its TXT record. Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 both document a one-page setup.

No TLS reporting

Info

A _smtp._tls record asks sending servers to report failed TLS connections to you. Without it, a broken certificate on your mail server produces silent delivery failures that nobody reports.

Fix: Add a TXT record at _smtp._tls.github.com with v=TLSRPTv1; rua=mailto:you@example.com.

Certificate authority

CAA records restrict certificate issuance

OK

Only the authorities listed here may issue certificates for this domain.

0 issue "digicert.com"
0 issue "globalsign.com"
0 issue "letsencrypt.org"
0 issue "sectigo.com"
0 issuewild "digicert.com"
0 issuewild "letsencrypt.org"
0 issuewild "sectigo.com"

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33 DNS lookups · report valid for 7s (shortest record TTL)Checked 2026-09-02 15:03:55 UTCSPF include treeTLS certificatesCheck another domain