Is borneo.name legit or a scam?
A legitimate historical cartography resource with over 21 years of clean domain history and no malicious signals.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
The domain has been registered for nearly 22 years, which is a strong indicator of stability and legitimacy. Our analysis shows the content is strictly focused on niche academic topics like Italian trigonometric surveys and historical maps. There are no products for sale, no login forms, and no requests for personal information. All 66 antivirus engines in our network confirm the site is clean. The lack of commercial elements and the specific nature of the content suggest it is a private geodetic resource.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for borneo.name, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered approximately 21.9 years ago (7981 days as of 2026).
- Website at https://www.borneo.name/ is in Italian, titled "Borneo - Rappresentazione del Territorio" (Territory Representation).
- Content focuses on historical cartography, geographic coordinates (UTM, MGRS), old Italian trigonometric surveys (e.g., 1889 lavori trigonometrici in Italia), maps of Matera, tratturi, and Aegean topography.
- No contact information, company details, products for sale, or commercial elements identified.
- No reviews, complaints, scam reports, or mentions of the domain found on Reddit, Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, or general web searches.
- Page is image-heavy with links to subpages under /coordinate/ and /cartografia/ paths; described as a legitimate academic/historical geodetic resource with no red flags.
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 contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://borneo.name/
- 2200https://www.borneo.name/cross-domain
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 borneo.name and not a lookalike like b-orneo.name.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.
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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 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 borneo.name. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- borneo.name passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 89/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. borneo.name presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Actalis S.p.A. · Actalis Domain Validation Server CA G3, expiring in 170 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- borneo.name is 21.9 years old, registered on 8/23/2004 through Tucows Domains Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 66 antivirus engines in our malware network report borneo.name as clean.
- No. borneo.name is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- borneo.name resolves to an IP operated by Aruba S.p.A. - Shared Hosting IT1 in IT (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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 30, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around borneo.name have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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