No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is duke.edu legit or a scam?
Official Duke University homepage with clean security scans, valid SSL, and long-established nonprofit status as a major research institution.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page displays standard university navigation, admissions links, and campus information consistent with an official educational site. Our antivirus network returned zero flags and the hosting IP carries no abuse reports. Business registration confirms an active tax-exempt nonprofit operating since 1939 with proper accreditation. Independent review aggregators show strong positive ratings and Wikipedia documents the university's 1838 founding without any fraud indicators. No scam families or clone signals appear in the scan. The combination of age, clean infrastructure, and external verification leaves little room for doubt.
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 duke.edu, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official website of Duke University (duke.edu), private research university founded 1838 in Durham, North Carolina
- Tax-exempt nonprofit (EIN 56-0532129) since June 1939; accredited by SACS and member of AAU
- No scam or fraud reports found for the domain; search results primarily show university's own phishing awareness alerts
- Active r/duke subreddit with student/alumni discussions on academics, campus life, and sports
- Positive overall reviews and high rankings on Niche.com (A+ grade) and Wikipedia
- No evidence of typosquatting or cloning of other brands
Private nonprofit research university, tax-exempt since June 1939 (EIN 56-0532129), Durham NC; founded 1838, accredited by SACS
Our research found no scam reports or complaints. The domain is confirmed as the official site of Duke University, a private research university founded in 1838, with active positive reviews on review sites and proper nonprofit registration in the United States.
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.
- Phone number listed (27708 (919) 684-8111).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://duke.edu/
- 2302https://duke.edu/
- 3200https://www.duke.edu/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 duke.edu and not a lookalike like d-uke.edu.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 duke.edu. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- duke.edu 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. duke.edu presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Internet2 · InCommon RSA Server CA 2, expiring in 152 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report duke.edu as clean.
- No. duke.edu is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- duke.edu resolves to an IP operated by Duke University in US (usage type: University/College/School). 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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