No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is archdaily.com legit or a scam?
This looks safe to use.
Established architecture news site with 18-year-old domain, clean reputation, and no scam indicators.
Score breakdown
Analysis Summary
Intelligence
The domain archdaily.com was registered in 2007 and has operated continuously for 18.6 years. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. The page content matches a legitimate architecture publication with project listings and editorial sections. Evidence from independent sources confirms the site was founded in 2008, acquired by a Swiss media group in 2020, and maintains millions of monthly visitors. One archived report notes the site itself warned readers about a scam competition that tried to misuse its platform. No login forms, payment requests, or suspicious redirects appear on the scanned page.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for archdaily.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- ArchDaily is a globally recognized architecture and design media platform founded in 2008.
- The site is a legitimate, high-traffic resource for architecture professionals, with millions of monthly visitors.
- ArchDaily has previously published warnings about scam competitions that attempted to use their platform to solicit entries.
- The platform was acquired by the Swiss media company NZZ Mediengruppe in 2020.
- Recent user discussions indicate the site has introduced subscription-based access for some content, which is a standard business model for digital publications.
- ArchDaily
"Last year, we were reached by the organizers of Treehouses in Paradise Competition in order to help them spread the word. A couple of days later, we realized the competition was in fact a scam"
- Knoji
"Based on online research and 43 ArchDaily reviews, ArchDaily's overall score is 4.1 out of 5 stars."
- Scam Detector
"archdaily.com is an authentic, safe website, given all the risk factors and data numbers analyzed in this in-depth review."
Founded in 2008 by David Basulto and David Assael; acquired by NZZ Mediengruppe in 2020.
Our research found one mention of ArchDaily in connection with a scam competition that attempted to use the platform for promotion. The site itself published a notice exposing the fraud. Two independent review sources rate the site positively, with one giving it 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 43 reviews and another concluding it is authentic and safe. Business records confirm the company was founded in Chile in 2008 and acquired by NZZ Mediengruppe in 2020.
Domain Timeline
- Nov 20, 2007Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 19 years old today.
- Jul 15, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
archdaily.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
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 contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed ((18.000000).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://archdaily.com/
- 2200https://www.archdaily.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
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 archdaily.com and not a lookalike like a-rchdaily.com.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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Final Verdict
ArchDaily is a long-running architecture news platform. The domain is 18.6 years old with clean scans and no malicious flags. Users can browse safely.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on archdaily.com, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, it ranks among the world's most-visited sites, and the domain is 18.7 years old, registered on November 20, 2007 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
- archdaily.com passed our automated checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
- Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from archdaily.com), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from archdaily.com is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
- No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report archdaily.com as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
- No — archdaily.com is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- archdaily.com is 18.7 years old, registered on November 20, 2007 through DreamHost, LLC. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
- Yes — archdaily.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, valid for another 189 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- archdaily.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- Yes — archdaily.com ranks in the global top 100,000 most-visited sites, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. Genuine popularity doesn't automatically make a site safe, but throwaway scam domains almost never reach this level of traffic, so it's a meaningful point in the site's favour.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 15, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about archdaily.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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