No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is canadianradiodirectory.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate 10-year-old radio directory temporarily offline for maintenance; no scam indicators, clean reputation, and multiple credible references.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The domain has been registered for nearly 11 years and operates as a niche reference site listing Canadian radio stations by province. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists show no malicious flags. The site is currently displaying a maintenance message, which is consistent with a legitimate project undergoing updates rather than a scam pattern. Multiple credible sources — including Radio World, Technical Safety BC, Wikipedia, and the CIDX Club — reference canadianradiodirectory.com as a legitimate resource, and the owner Andy Reid is identified as a 50-year radio expert. No scam reports, complaints, or fraud mentions appear in any web search. The domain uses valid SSL encryption and has a clean hosting IP with zero abuse reports. The absence of contact details and the maintenance-mode message are typical for a small, individually-operated reference site, not indicators of fraud.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for canadianradiodirectory.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered approximately 3926 days ago (~10.7 years); long-established niche site listing Canadian radio stations by province.
- Owned/maintained by Andy Reid, referenced as owner in Radio World article (2022) and credited in provincial station lists on the site itself.
- Frequently cited as a reference by DX clubs (CIDX), government/technical reports (Technical Safety BC), Wikipedia, radio forums, and academic/government PDFs.
- Current page displays "Site is undergoing maintenance" and "Site will be available soon. Thank you for your patience!" (as of latest crawl).
- No scam reports, complaints, fraud mentions, or negative feedback found across web searches including Reddit.
- Regularly updated as recently as May/June 2026 in archived/provincial pages; used for broadcasting research and emergency response references.
- No business registration details located; operates as personal/individual project by radio enthusiast Andy Reid.
- CIDX Club (cidxclub.ca)open
"Also check out The Canadian Radio Directory, the complete, accurate, user-friendly list of Canadian radio stations at canadianradiodirectory.com."
- Radio Worldopen
"Andy Reid, owner of canadianradiodirectory.com, co-host of “The Two Wallies” satire program and a shortwave listener/expert for 50-plus years."
- Technical Safety BC reportopen
"The following websites were accessed in order to identify those radio stations... 1. http://www.canadianradiodirectory.com/"
- Wikipediaopen
"www.canadianradiodirectory.com - Canadian Radio Directory"
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for canadianradiodirectory.com and found zero scam reports or complaints. Instead, the domain appears in multiple credible contexts: it is cited by government technical reports, listed on Wikipedia as a Canadian radio resource, recommended by radio enthusiast clubs, and identified in Radio World as owned by a 50-year radio expert. This pattern of legitimate institutional and community references is the opposite of what we see with fraudulent sites.
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://canadianradiodirectory.com/
- 2301https://canadianradiodirectory.com/
- 3200https://www.canadianradiodirectory.com/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 canadianradiodirectory.com and not a lookalike like c-anadianradiodirectory.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 canadianradiodirectory.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- canadianradiodirectory.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 82/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. canadianradiodirectory.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · RapidSSL TLS RSA CA G1, expiring in 174 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- canadianradiodirectory.com is 10.8 years old, registered on 9/6/2015 through PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report canadianradiodirectory.com as clean.
- No. canadianradiodirectory.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- canadianradiodirectory.com resolves to an IP operated by Cogent Communications, LLC in CA (usage type: Fixed Line ISP). 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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