No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is aka.tw legit or a scam?
Legitimate URL shortener with clean security scans, 526-day-old domain, and no scam indicators.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a standard URL shortening tool with professional Chinese-language marketing text and working examples. All security engines returned clean results and the hosting IP shows zero abuse history. The domain is over a year old with valid SSL, which is consistent with a real service rather than a throwaway scam site. Our web research found no complaints or scam reports and one independent review explicitly calling it legitimate. Low global traffic ranking is normal for a niche regional shortener and does not indicate risk.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
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.
No scam visual patterns detected
Clean, fully-rendered landing page for a URL shortener service with professional layout and no scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for aka.tw, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain aka.tw operates as a URL shortening service titled 'aka.tw 連結縮短服務'.
- Scamadviser reports aka.tw as legit and safe to use.
- No scam reports, complaints, Reddit discussions, or negative reviews found across multiple searches.
- dns.aka.tw has a trust score of 92/100 with 0/91 engines flagging it.
- custom.aka.tw subdomain exists for confirming legitimacy of the URL shortening service.
- .tw is Taiwan country-code TLD; no owner registration details publicly surfaced.
- No typosquatting or brand clone indicators detected.
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, It seems that aka.tw is legit and safe to use and not a scam website."
Antivirus Engines
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 phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (support@aka.tw).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://aka.tw/
- 2200https://aka.tw/
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 aka.tw and not a lookalike like a-ka.tw.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
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 aka.tw. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- aka.tw passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 86/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. aka.tw presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 84 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- aka.tw is 1.4 years old, registered on 12/15/2024 through Cloudmax Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report aka.tw as clean.
- No. aka.tw is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- aka.tw resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). 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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