Is dnszi.com legit or a scam?
DNSZi is a reputable South Korean free DNS provider operating since 2012 with no history of malicious activity.
Score breakdown
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. 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 similarities noted — cleared by the overall checks
Our vision model noted some visual similarity to a known brand, but the domain, security records, and reputation checks confirm this is the legitimate site — so this is shown for transparency, not as a red flag.
What our vision model saw
3 signalsWidespread character encoding issues resulting in placeholder boxes instead of text
Outdated web design aesthetic with low-resolution graphics
Broken layout elements in the sidebar and main content areas
MT Intelligence
The domain has been active for over 14 years, which is a strong indicator of stability and legitimacy. Our antivirus network shows zero detections across 92 different security engines, and the hosting IP has a perfect reputation score. The site is operated by ConnectWave Co., Ltd., a registered South Korean business with verifiable contact information and a physical office in Seoul. Technical analysis confirms it provides legitimate infrastructure services like DDNS and web forwarding. While the visual design is dated and may have character encoding issues for non-Korean users, these are technical artifacts rather than security risks.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for dnszi.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain dnszi.com provides free web-based DNS management, parking, and forwarding services with 5 distributed nameservers per user.
- Operated by (주)커넥트웨이브, a South Korean company founded around 2002 focused on PHP developer community and hosting; address in Geumcheon-gu, Seoul.
- Domain age approximately 5264 days (~14.4 years) as of July 2026; nameservers like ns1.dnszi.com, ns9.dnszi.com etc. hosted in South Korea (KR).
- Multiple Korean tech blogs and forums (2015-2025) describe it as a legitimate free alternative to paid DNS services for domain management and DDNS.
- No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews found on major sites; no presence on Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, or ScamDoc.
- Company contact: dnszi@dnszi.com; listed on site footer and notices with physical address and representative name.
- Used by users for personal servers, NAS, Let's Encrypt certificates, and domain delegation; occasional notices about outages or domain holds.
Company: (주)커넥트웨이브 (Connectwave Co., Ltd.), Representative: 김정남 (Kim Jeong-nam), Address: 서울특별시 금천구 벚꽃로 298, 17층 (가산동, 대륭포스트타워6차), Business registration number: 117-81-40065, Telecom sales number: 제2004-서울양천-00918호. Source: https://dnszi.com/company_info.html
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (dnszi@dnszi.com).
- Phone number listed (117-81-40065).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://dnszi.com/
- 2200https://dnszi.com/
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 dnszi.com and not a lookalike like d-nszi.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.
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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 dnszi.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- dnszi.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 93/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. dnszi.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, expiring in 56 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- dnszi.com is 14.4 years old, registered on 2/3/2012 through ConnectWave co.,Ltd. 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 dnszi.com as clean.
- No. dnszi.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- dnszi.com resolves to an IP operated by KINX in KR (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 July 4, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around dnszi.com 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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