Website reputation report

certkit.io

Last checked 45 minutes ago · Point-in-time assessment

62/100Technical Safety ScoreIndependent technical assessment, not a visitor rating
Captured homepage of certkit.io in the current scan
Website screenshot from the current report
● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

Certificate validity is dropping from 398 days to 47 days by 2029. Here is the canonical schedule, what's driving it, and what it does to your renewal workload.

No listed local patterns observedHomepage-only analysis is not a malware clearance. Read the scope and findings below.

62/100Safety Score
70%Evidence Confidence
Trust Radar evidence profile Eight evidence dimensions from zero to one hundred. Exact values surround the chart. Threat Intelligence55 Domain History0 Infrastructure89 Website Security95 Security Hygiene35 Transparency61 Reputation50 Operational Stability96
Trust RadarEight observed factors. Select one to inspect its evidence.

How to read this report

Safety Score evaluates observed signals. Evidence Confidence measures how complete, direct, fresh, and consistent those signals are.

No automated scan can guarantee that a website is safe.

Independent evidence brief

What we observed about certkit.io

Updated Oct 4, 2026

The latest scan examined 10 public pages on certkit.io. Website descriptions below come from the site itself. Registration, connection and threat findings were checked separately.

Purpose and visible content

On its About page, the site says: Certificate validity is dropping from 398 days to 47 days by 2029. Here is the canonical schedule, what's driving it, and what it does…

  • Certificate lifetimes are shrinking.Certificate validity is dropping from 398 days to 47 days by 2029. Here is the canonical schedule, what's…
  • About CertKitCertKit is automated SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle management built by a small team of engineers in Minneapolis. We build…
  • Contact CertKitWe're not some faceless corporation. We're real engineers working to makecertificate management easy, and we'd love to hear…

Registrar and domain history

A reliable creation date was not returned by the registration lookup. The report leaves domain age unverified rather than guessing.

Connection and hosting evidence

The checked homepage returned HTTP 200.

A valid TLS certificate was observed, expiring Nov 19, 2026.

Threat checks and score context

External malware-provider coverage was unavailable. The report does not treat this missing check as a clean result.

Safety Score: 62/100. Evidence Confidence: 70%. These measure different things.

Community reviews of certkit.io

Visitor experiences are separate from the independent technical Safety Score.

No approved visitor reviews yet. Visitor opinions remain separate from the technical Safety Score.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on certkit.io

10 of up to 10 pages

We sampled public pages from this website to understand its subject and contact paths. The titles and short descriptions below come from the website itself. They are not endorsements or independent safety findings.

Hashtags found on the website: #1041 · #180 · #1002 . These are site-supplied labels, not search rankings.

CertKit SSL/TLS Certificate Lifecycle Management SoftwareCertKit is SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle management software. Discover, issue, renew, and automatically deploy certificates to Linux, Windows, and vendor appliances, then monitor e Certificate lifetimes are shrinking.Certificate validity is dropping from 398 days to 47 days by 2029. Here is the canonical schedule, what's driving it, and what it does to your renewal workload. About CertKitCertKit is automated SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle management built by a small team of engineers in Minneapolis. We build the certificate management platform we wished existed when Contact CertKitWe're not some faceless corporation. We're real engineers working to makecertificate management easy, and we'd love to hear from you. CertKit BlogCertKit blog covers SSL certificate automation, TLS management failures, and the politics behind 47-day certificates. For admins and engineers tired of renewal hell. Delegated DNS validation: proving domain ownership without exposing credentialsEvery service you onboard wants proof you control your domain. Most want your DNS credentials to automate that proof. There's a better approach: CNAME delegation lets you authorize Press and appearancesWhere CertKit and founder Todd Gardner have shown up. Podcast conversations and conference talks on SSL/TLS certificate automation, shrinking certificate lifetimes, and why certifi Certificate discovery: find every certificate you haveSSL certificate discovery finds every certificate issued for your domains, including the forgotten ones, by searching public Certificate Transparency logs. Search yours free, then Certificate automation: issue, renew, and deploy without the manual workCertificate automation issues, renews, deploys, and verifies your SSL certificates without manual steps, so one never expires because someone forgot. Set it up once with a single C Automate SSL certificate deployment to IIS, nginx, firewalls, and moreCertKit deploys certificates to Windows servers, network appliances, web servers, and cloud services automatically. One agent, one account, every server in your stack.

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on certkit.io

12 phrases

These phrases were extracted locally from sampled public page metadata. They are observations, not search-volume or ranking estimates.

certificateTitle, H1, Meta description8 sampled pages
ssl tls certificateTitle, H1, Meta description3 sampled pages
certificate automationTitle, H1, Meta description3 sampled pages
managementTitle, H1, Meta description4 sampled pages
certificate lifecycle managementTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
certificatesH1, Meta description5 sampled pages
withoutTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
everyTitle, Meta description3 sampled pages
certificate lifetimesTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
shrinkingTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
engineersMeta description3 sampled pages
issue renewTitle, Meta description2 sampled pages

At a glance

Key findings

✓

Report is current

The displayed evidence comes from the published immutable scan.

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Confidence is separate

Unavailable evidence is shown as missing and never counted as clean.

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Verify before sensitive actions

Check the exact URL and context before payments, credentials, or downloads.

Fully explainable

Why this score?

Versioned weights
Threat IntelligenceWeight 25%
55/100

Threat providers were unavailable. The neutral uncertainty baseline is not a clean verdict.

Domain HistoryWeight 10%
0/100

Evidence is unavailable.

InfrastructureWeight 10%
89/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
95/100

Observed certificate validity and TLS protocol were checked.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
35/100

Observed security header values were checked for basic protective settings. Empty values, disabled HSTS and unrecognized values receive no credit. This is not a complete browser-policy validation.

TransparencyWeight 5%
61/100

Observed site metadata and About page were checked. Publisher-supplied details are not independently verified.

ReputationWeight 5%
50/100

Popularity is weak context, not proof of safety. Unranked sites use a neutral baseline.

Operational StabilityWeight 15%
96/100

Observed HTTP status and final connection scheme were checked.

Server-side analysis

Automated security checks

Local antivirus and phishing checks

ClamAV · homepage HTMLNo signature match in the sampled HTML
Engine version1.5.4
Signature database date (UTC)2026-10-04T06:25:22+00:00
HTML bytes submitted66,070
Phishing.Database · exact hostnameNot listed in this snapshot
Feed downloaded (UTC)2026-10-04T06:00:12+00:00
Hosts in local snapshot386,082

Sampled scripts and pages

Resource analysis incomplete

6 resources checked · 4 script links observed on the homepage. Partial resource coverage.

ClamAV inspects the fetched homepage HTML on our server. New scans also sample up to four linked scripts and two collected internal pages, with size and time limits. Scripts are not executed. Other downloads, private server files and logged-in pages remain outside this check. A signature match needs investigation and can be a false positive. No match is not a whole-site safety guarantee.

Exact hostname lookup uses a downloaded Phishing.Database snapshot. It does not send this domain to an external lookup API or mark sibling subdomains as harmful. Not listed does not mean safe. Snapshot age is download age, not proof that every entry was recently revalidated.

Homepage HTML only · Eight local rule families · local-security-v2

Checks use the fetched page and redirect chain. Scripts are not executed, forms are not submitted, and linked files are not downloaded. This is not a malware clearance.

Page resource inventory

Linked scripts4
Inline scripts10
Embedded frames0
External script hosts2

Counts describe the sampled HTML, not every resource loaded by the browser. External resources are common and are not automatically harmful.

No listed local patterns observed. The limited rule set cannot detect every threat or behavior.

External threat intelligence

Provider coverageNot checked

Local checks do not query external reputation databases. An unavailable check is never a clean result.

Registration

Domain information

Public RDAP observation
Canonical domaincertkit.io
RegistrarUnavailable
RegisteredUnavailable
Domain ageUnavailable
ExpiresUnavailable
Registry statusesUnavailable
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address185.199.108.153
Autonomous systemUnavailable
Network organizationUnavailable
Observed countryUnavailable
CDNNot detected
Web application firewallNot detected

At a glance

Infrastructure summary

Observed during this scan

A compact view of the connection, DNS and security surface. These observations describe what the scanner could verify at scan time and do not prove ownership or ongoing availability.

HTTP response200 · https://www.certkit.io/
Endpoint185.199.108.153
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFNot detected · Not detected
DNS surface10 records · 2 nameservers · 1 mail exchangers
Protection signals0 security headers · 2 technologies · DNSSEC unknown

Page telemetry

Observed page statistics

Safe metadata only

These counters describe the fetched response and sampled HTML. Script counts describe references in the markup, not a complete browser network log. Cookie counts cover observed response headers.

Response size66,070 bytes
HTTP check duration0 ms
Cookies observedUnavailable
Script resources4 · 2 external hosts
Frames and sampled checks0 frames · 6 resources checked

Encrypted transport

TLS certificate

Valid when observed
StatusValid when observed
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuercountryName=US, organizationName=Let's Encrypt, commonName=YR2
Valid fromAug 21, 2026
Valid untilNov 19, 2026
Certificate namescertkit.io · www.certkit.io

Resolution

DNS footprint

DNSKEY status unknown

DNSKEY presence does not verify the DNSSEC signature chain. Missing records can mean no record was returned or the lookup was unavailable.

A185.199.108.153TTL —
A185.199.109.153TTL —
A185.199.110.153TTL —
A185.199.111.153TTL —
NSdns1.registrar-servers.comTTL —
NSdns2.registrar-servers.comTTL —
MX1 smtp.google.comTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=C0pBB8eZHwn9yZXr4JXXpAPP4H35U3HFt3YTrbn8cu4TTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=R2wRQJ1QNOxI6lzByRfw-2_vKsd-GNR6FrOnN5SYhv0TTL —
TXTv=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~allTTL —

DNS observations · no external lookup API

Domain email protection

Exact-host SPF and DMARC observations help the owner investigate email impersonation risks. They are separate from website malware checks and do not change the Safety Score.

SPFPolicy record observed, not fully validated
DMARCPolicy record observed, not fully validated

What to do next

Review the records with your mail administrator. Inventory legitimate senders and test SPF and DKIM alignment before enforcing a stricter DMARC policy. Fix duplicate records and investigate overly permissive SPF rules.

This bounded check does not send email, probe SMTP, evaluate recursive SPF includes, verify DKIM signatures or apply organizational-domain DMARC inheritance. A missing subdomain record does not prove that no inherited protection exists. A DNS timeout is unknown, not an absent record. A policy record is not proof that messages authenticate successfully.

Responsible disclosure

security.txt

RFC 9116 observation

No readable security.txt file was observed at the standard locations. This is informational and is not evidence of malware.

Browser protections

Security headers

0 observed

Header evidence is unavailable. Missing data is not treated as a clean result or proof of compromise.

Response headers

Cookie protections

Passive observation

No Set-Cookie header was observed on the sampled homepage response. Other pages may set cookies separately.

Detected stack

Technologies

Google Analytics 94% Tailwind CSS 72%

Versions are shown only when publicly exposed by the page or response headers. An observed version is not, by itself, proof of a vulnerability.

JavaScript library advisories

4 sampled JavaScript files checked locally with Retire.js. Database snapshot: 2026-10-04T02:40:12.278Z.

No supported library version was identified in the sampled files. This does not establish that the scripts are safe.

A version match is not proof that the website is infected or that an issue is exploitable here. Owners should review the advisory, check whether their code is affected and test an update. Up to four external script files are sampled, not every dependency, inline script or dynamically loaded resource.

About this website

What the site says about itself

Certificate validity is dropping from 398 days to 47 days by 2029. Here is the canonical schedule, what's driving it, and what it does to your renewal workload.

View the site's About page ↗

This is publisher supplied information. The independent safety findings are shown separately.

Publisher supplied

Public contact details

These details were observed on the website, not independently verified as an active support channel.

Emailhello@certkit.ioSource: https://www.certkit.io/contact

Structured facts

Website identity & response

Public page metadata
Page titleCertKit SSL/TLS Certificate Lifecycle Management Software
First headingSSL/TLS Certificate Lifecycle Management from CertKit
DescriptionCertKit is SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle management software. Discover, issue, renew, and automatically deploy certificates to Linux, Windows, and vendor appliances, then monitor everything so a certificate never expires on you again.
Canonical URLhttps://www.certkit.io/
Final URLhttps://www.certkit.io/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=utf-8 · duration unavailable
Languageen
Structured typesBreadcrumbList · ListItem · Organization · SoftwareApplication · WebSite
Page page detectedhttps://www.certkit.io/blog/About page detectedhttps://www.certkit.io/blog/shrinking-certificate-lifetimesContact page detectedhttps://www.certkit.io/contact
missing100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
en100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors credentials with wildcard100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp present100% evidence confidence
10100% evidence confidence
2100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
4100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions policy present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.hsts present100% evidence confidence

Connection path

Redirect chain

1 recorded hops
Hop 1https://www.certkit.io/

The chain is shown exactly as observed by the scanner. A redirect is not itself a malware finding, but unexpected domains or an HTTP downgrade deserve review.

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Compared with the previous scan

What changed

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Explainable matching

Digital fingerprint

fingerprint-v1
quiet-beacon-wave-927

Comparable components help find technically related websites. A match does not prove common ownership.

DnsHashed private comparison value
TechnologiesHashed private comparison value

Material changes only

Change history

No meaningful changes recorded yet.

Website icon for certkit.io

Visual evidence

Website screenshot

Screenshot of certkit.io
Captured once in an isolated browser during this scan. Visual tint is an interface overlay. The original evidence is not duplicated.

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Questions about certkit.io

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Is certkit.io safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 62/100 with 70% Evidence Confidence. This is a point-in-time assessment of observed technical signals, not a guarantee. Check the exact address and avoid entering payment details if anything looks unusual.

Did the scan detect malware on certkit.io?

ClamAV found no signature match in the sampled homepage HTML. External scripts, downloads and private server files were not checked. This is not a whole-site malware clearance.

When was certkit.io registered?

The registry lookup did not provide a reliable creation date in this scan.

Did certkit.io have a valid TLS certificate?

The scanner observed a valid TLS certificate using TLSv1.3. A valid certificate alone does not establish that the site is safe.

How does certkit.io describe itself?

The website's About page describes its purpose in the report above. This is publisher-supplied information and is separate from independent security findings.

Can a paid listing change this website's score?

No. Premium placement and owner-supplied pages are labelled separately. Technical evidence, the Safety Score and moderation decisions remain independent.

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