Is emerge-dance.com legit or a scam?
Established Cincinnati dance academy with 12-year domain history, active BBB profile, and clean security scan.
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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MT Intelligence
The domain emerge-dance.com has been registered for 4,502 days (approximately 12 years), indicating a long-standing business. Our antivirus network flagged zero malicious detections across 88 engines, and the hosting infrastructure shows no abuse history. Business registration data confirms Emerge Dance Academy operates as an active dance company in Cincinnati and Harrison, Ohio, with an A+ BBB rating filed since February 2019. The website displays parent testimonials praising the instructors and operations, and contact information (office@emerge-dance.com, phone number) is consistent with a legitimate local service provider. No scam reports, complaints, or clone-site indicators were found in our research.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for emerge-dance.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered approximately 12 years ago (4502 days); active local dance studio in Cincinnati, OH with two physical locations: 5882 Cheviot Rd, Cincinnati and 10537 Harrison Ave, Harrison.
- Offers ballet, tap, jazz, toddler classes, summer camps, birthday parties, and has a competition team; active on Instagram (@emergecincinnati) and Facebook.
- BBB profile shows A+ rating, file opened Feb 2019, owner Alex Herrmann; not BBB accredited; no customer complaints or reviews listed on BBB.
- Yelp business listing exists but no public reviews found in searches; no Reddit discussions or scam reports located.
- Website contains parent testimonials praising teachers, child growth, and smooth operations; no negative feedback or scam mentions across multiple searches.
- Email: office@emerge-dance.com; Phone: (513) 923-2356; appears to be a standard local children's dance academy with no red flags.
BBB file opened 2/27/2019; Owner/Director Alex Herrmann; operates two locations in Cincinnati and Harrison, OH; listed as dance company with A+ BBB rating (not accredited)
Our research confirmed Emerge Dance Academy as a legitimate local business operating in Cincinnati, Ohio. Business registration data shows the company is active with an A+ BBB rating (file opened February 2019, owner Alex Herrmann). Two physical locations are documented: 5882 Cheviot Rd, Cincinnati, and 10537 Harrison Ave, Harrison. The business offers ballet, tap, jazz, toddler classes, summer camps, and birthday parties, with an active competition team. Social media presence confirmed on Instagram (@emergecincinnati) and Facebook. No scam reports, customer complaints, or negative reviews were found in scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, or general web searches.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (0460-052).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://emerge-dance.com/
- 2200https://emerge-dance.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 emerge-dance.com and not a lookalike like e-merge-dance.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.
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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 emerge-dance.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- emerge-dance.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 84/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. emerge-dance.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 45 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- emerge-dance.com is 12.3 years old, registered on 2/11/2014 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 88 antivirus engines in our malware network report emerge-dance.com as clean.
- No. emerge-dance.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- emerge-dance.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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 10, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around emerge-dance.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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