No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is darkdesirelotion.com legit or a scam?
20-year-old tanning lotion domain now shows only a GoDaddy parked page with a buy button and zero active content.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The domain itself is nearly 20 years old and historically linked to a real sunless tanning product called Dark Desire with references dating back to 2005. No antivirus engines flagged the page and browser blocklists are clean. The current page is a standard GoDaddy parking notice with no login forms, contact details, or scam indicators. Our research found zero scam reports or complaints across multiple sources despite targeted searches. The combination of extreme age, clean technical signals, and absence of fraud evidence outweighs the fact that the site is currently non-functional.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
Screenshot shows a GoDaddy parked domain page for darkdesirerelotion.com with a 'Get This Domain' button.
What our vision model saw
1 signalPage appears parked or non-functional
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for darkdesirelotion.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain darkdesirelotion.com has been referenced since at least 2005 as a sunless tanning lotion seller (e.g., Japanese blog posts linking to http://www.darkdesirelotion.com).
- Site described as selling 'Tanning Lotion and Self Tanning Lotion at wholesale prices. We carry all the top brands of bronzer tanning lotion, sunless lotion, moisturizers and more!' (cqcounter.com/whois).
- Associated with 'Designer Skin Dark Desire' 40X Hypoallergenic DHA Bronzer tanning product sold via multiple retailers including newsunshinetanning.com, heartlandtan.com, Amazon, eBay.
- Listed on Trustpilot under tanning studios with 'TrustScore 0 out of 5. 3.50 reviews' (trustpilot.com/categories/tanning_studio).
- No scam, fraud, or complaint reports found in targeted searches including Reddit, 'scam', 'complaint'.
- Domain age given as 7252 days (~19.9 years); no typosquat or clone indicators for brands like PayPal, Roblox, etc.
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
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 darkdesirelotion.com and not a lookalike like d-arkdesirelotion.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.
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 darkdesirelotion.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- darkdesirelotion.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 70/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. darkdesirelotion.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by GoDaddy.com · GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1, expiring in 191 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- darkdesirelotion.com is 19.9 years old, registered on 7/19/2006 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. 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 darkdesirelotion.com as clean.
- No. darkdesirelotion.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- darkdesirelotion.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. 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.
- 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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