No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is charlestonroadregistry.com legit or a scam?
Official Google Registry site for domains like .dev and .google, clean scan record, and confirmed 2012 company registration as a Google subsidiary.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as Google Registry, the official operator for multiple Google-owned top-level domains. The domain is over 14 years old, carries valid SSL, and shows zero detections across our antivirus network and blocklist feeds. Our research confirms Charleston Road Registry Inc. is a real, active Google subsidiary founded in 2012 with a listed U.S. business address. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators appear in any searched sources. The combination of long domain history, clean technical signals, and direct business verification makes this a trusted official site.
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 charlestonroadregistry.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official site of Charleston Road Registry Inc. d/b/a Google Registry, wholly owned Google subsidiary managing gTLDs such as .google, .dev, .drive and others (Wikipedia, ICANN, IANA records)
- Company address listed as 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; ICANN-accredited registry operator
- No scam, complaint, or negative review mentions found in web searches for the domain combined with scam/review/complaint/reddit terms
- Domain serves as registry for hundreds of thousands of domains across 46+ TLDs (ntldstats.com data)
- Company established in 2012 to comply with ICANN rules separating registries and registrars; Google is already an accredited registrar
- Name servers include ns-tld*.charlestonroadregistry.com delegated for multiple TLDs (IANA records)
Charleston Road Registry Inc. (CRR), doing business as Google Registry, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Google LLC, founded February 8, 2012, located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
Our research confirms this is the official site of Charleston Road Registry Inc. (Google Registry), a verified Google subsidiary established in 2012. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions were found across web sources. The company is listed as an active ICANN-accredited registry operator managing multiple Google TLDs.
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://charlestonroadregistry.com/
- 2302https://www.google.com/registry/cross-domain
- 3200https://www.registry.google/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 charlestonroadregistry.com and not a lookalike like c-harlestonroadregistry.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
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 charlestonroadregistry.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- charlestonroadregistry.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 91/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. charlestonroadregistry.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WR2, expiring in 57 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- charlestonroadregistry.com is 14.2 years old, registered on 4/4/2012 through MarkMonitor 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 charlestonroadregistry.com as clean.
- No. charlestonroadregistry.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- charlestonroadregistry.com resolves to an IP operated by Google LLC 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.
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