Dean Foods Domain Security

generated: '2026-09-05'
method: probed
source: DNS + TLS probe of deanfoods.com, 2026-09-05

# Dean Foods — domain security posture of deanfoods.com.
#
# ATTRIBUTION, READ THIS FIRST. Dean Foods ceased to exist as an operating company
# after its 2019 Chapter 11 filing and the 2020 sale of its assets. The registrant of
# record on deanfoods.com is now DAIRY FARMERS OF AMERICA, INC., and the CAA iodef
# contact is secops@dfamilk.com — so the posture measured below is the ACQUIRER's
# stewardship of an inherited brand domain, not a security program Dean Foods runs.
# It is recorded because deanfoods.com is the domain this record names, and because
# the shape of it (mail hardened, web abandoned) is itself the evidence that the
# company is gone: a domain kept alive for mail and brand defence, with no HTTPS
# listener at all.

name: Dean Foods
slug: dean-foods
checked: '2026-09-05'
hosts_probed:
- deanfoods.com

domains:
- domain: deanfoods.com
  registrar: GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC
  registrant_organization: Dairy Farmers of America, Inc.
  created: '1997-04-04'
  updated: '2026-03-08'
  registry_expiry: '2027-04-05'
  domain_status:
  - clientTransferProhibited
  resolves: true
  a_records:
  - 75.2.103.146
  - 99.83.188.150
  nameservers:
  - ns11.gcd-dns.com
  - ns12.gcd-dns.com

  tls:
    https_listener: false
    handshake: failed
    error: 'tlsv1 alert internal error (LibreSSL ST_CONNECT)'
    certificate: null
    note: >-
      Port 443 accepts the connection but aborts the TLS handshake, so no certificate
      can be retrieved and no https:// request to this host can complete. Every
      https probe in this repo against deanfoods.com is therefore status 0 —
      no connection, not a 404.
  hsts:
    present: false
    header: null
    note: Cannot be served — there is no working HTTPS response to carry the header.
  http:
    listener: true
    behavior: blanket 301 to https://www.dfamilk.com/ on every path tested
    server: awselb/2.0
    head_method: 405 Method Not Allowed (WAF in front of the ELB refuses HEAD)

  dnssec:
    signed: false
    ds_records: []
  caa:
    present: true
    records:
    - '0 issue "www.digicert.com"'
    - '0 issue "letsencrypt.org"'
    - '0 iodef "mailto:secops@dfamilk.com"'
  spf:
    present: true
    record: 'v=spf1 include:%{ir}.%{v}.%{d}.spf.has.pphosted.com ~all'
    all_qualifier: softfail
    note: Proofpoint macro-expanded SPF include — the same tenant DFA uses.
  dmarc:
    present: true
    record: 'v=DMARC1; p=reject; fo=1; rua=mailto:dmarc_rua@emaildefense.proofpoint.com; ruf=mailto:dmarc_ruf@emaildefense.proofpoint.com'
    policy: reject
    aggregate_reporting: true
    forensic_reporting: true
  mx:
    present: true
    records:
    - 10 mxa-004c8e03.gslb.pphosted.com
    - 10 mxb-004c8e03.gslb.pphosted.com

summary:
  email_authentication: strong
  web_transport: absent
  finding: >-
    An asymmetric posture that is diagnostic of a wound-down brand: SPF, DMARC at
    p=reject with both aggregate and forensic reporting, CAA with a named security
    contact, and live Proofpoint MX — all of the controls that stop someone spoofing
    mail from a well-known dead brand — combined with no HTTPS service whatsoever and
    a plain-HTTP blanket redirect to the acquirer. The domain is being defended, not
    operated.