No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is adkernel.com legit or a scam?
Established ad tech provider with 15-year domain history, verified US company registration, and zero scam detections.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a professional ad technology platform offering white-label solutions for publishers and agencies. The domain is over 15 years old with valid SSL and a clean hosting IP reputation showing no abuse reports. Our research confirmed AdKernel LLC as an active US-registered business founded in 2010 with real addresses and contact details. No scam families, clone indicators, or blocklist hits were detected. One minor customer complaint about performance exists but no fraud reports surfaced.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for adkernel.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain adkernel.com has been active for 5488 days (approx. 15 years).
- Company founded in 2010 as AdKernel LLC; provides white-label RTB, DSP, SSP, header bidding, and ad serving solutions.
- US-based with headquarters in New York, NY and offices/addresses in New Jersey; contact details include +1 888 654 8826 and contact@adkernel.com.
- Listed on LinkedIn (859 followers), Crunchbase, Prebid.org documentation, and industry sites as legitimate ad tech infrastructure provider.
- One customer review on Serchen.com (Oct 2022) reports inconsistent request volumes and performance issues.
- Positive industry mention on ezmob.com describing it as having strong XML/RTB ad server technology from a solid development team.
- No scam reports, fraud complaints, or typosquat/clone indicators found in searches for 'adkernel scam', 'complaint', or 'review'.
- ezmob.comopen
"Adkernel has one of the best xml ad servers technology that’s adapted for any type of online marketing whether it’s banner ads or contextual search ads and everything in between. They are a solid team of developers with proven skills and ab"
AdKernel LLC, founded 2010, privately held, headquartered in New York, NY with additional addresses in New Jersey (e.g., Woodcliff Lake, Jersey City). Multiple professional profiles (LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, DataNyze) confirm operations.
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (contact@adkernel.com).
- Phone number listed (888 654 8826).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://adkernel.com/
- 2200https://adkernel.com/
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on adkernel.com and not a lookalike like a-dkernel.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on adkernel.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- adkernel.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 87/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. adkernel.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign GCC R6 AlphaSSL CA 2025, expiring in 274 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- adkernel.com is 15.0 years old, registered on 5/24/2011 through PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. adkernel.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- adkernel.com resolves to an IP operated by Webair Internet Development Company Inc. in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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