Is cxense.com legit or a scam?
Cxense is a long-standing, legitimate data analytics platform now operating as part of Piano Software with a clean security record.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
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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
The website displays a professional corporate layout for a data analytics platform with no visible indicators of scam patterns or malicious intent.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProfessional high-quality design with consistent branding and typography
Functional navigation menu with logical business categories
Clear call-to-action buttons for documentation and product demos
Presence of a standard privacy center link and user account icons
No urgency tactics, fake trust badges, or suspicious pop-ups detected
MT Intelligence
The domain has been registered for over 16 years and is tied to a verifiable corporate history. Our analysis confirms that Cxense ASA was a publicly traded Norwegian company before its acquisition by Piano Software B.V. in 2019. The current website serves as a product landing page for 'Piano Audience,' matching the official rebranding strategy. There are zero detections across our antivirus network and no reports of phishing or malware. While the domain is sometimes mentioned in ad-blocking discussions due to its tracking scripts, this is standard behavior for an analytics provider and not a security threat.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for cxense.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- cxense.com is the official domain of Cxense ASA, founded 2010 in Oslo, Norway (org. no. NO 895 166 022)
- Acquired by Piano Software Inc./B.V. in October 2019 for ~NOK 350 million; company delisted from Oslo Børs
- Cxense provided AI-powered data management, DMP, personalization and analytics; now rebranded/integrated as 'Piano Audience'
- No scam reports, fraud complaints or negative consumer reviews found on Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, ScamDoc, Reddit or general web searches
- Domain appears in ad-blocker discussions (pihole, uBlock) as a tracking/analytics script source (cdn.cxense.com, api.cxense.com) but no malware/phishing flags
- Current page content matches Piano Audience marketing for customer data segmentation and personalization
- Gridinsoft rates cxense.com 78/100 trust score as 'generally safe'
Cxense ASA (org. no. NO 895 166 022) incorporated 10 Feb 2010 in Oslo; listed on Oslo Børs; acquired by Piano Software B.V. in 2019 and delisted; now operates as part of Piano (piano.io)
Our research shows that cxense.com is the official domain of Cxense ASA, a company founded in 2010 in Oslo, Norway. The company was a legitimate provider of AI-powered data management and was listed on the Oslo Børs until it was acquired by Piano Software B.V. in October 2019 for approximately NOK 350 million. It now operates as 'Piano Audience.'
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for cxense.com and didn't find any scam reports or complaints. The domain is occasionally mentioned in technical forums like Reddit in the context of ad-blocking (as it serves analytics scripts), but it is consistently recognized as a legitimate business service rather than a security risk.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Technical checksdomain · encryption · redirects · server reputation
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://cxense.com/
- 2302https://cxense.com/
- 3308https://piano.io/product/dmpcross-domain
- 4308https://www.piano.io/product/dmpcross-domain
- 5200https://www.piano.io/product/audiencecross-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 cxense.com and not a lookalike like c-xense.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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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 cxense.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- cxense.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. cxense.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, expiring in 64 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- cxense.com is 16.4 years old, registered on 2/8/2010 through Amazon Registrar, 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 cxense.com as clean.
- No. cxense.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- cxense.com resolves to an IP operated by Pantheon 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.
- Yes. cxense.com sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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