Is gogoanime.com legit or a scam?
A long-standing piracy domain linked to aggressive adware and malware redirects, currently sitting on a blank redirect page.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
Critical risk detected
3 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page (1 outright malicious). Multiple independent checks — antivirus engines, browser safety blocklists, and threat databases — flagged this site. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
The domain has been active for over four years and is a known hub for the Gogoanime piracy network. Our antivirus partners, including Fortinet and Gridinsoft, flag the site as malicious or suspicious due to its history of serving rogue advertisements. The page currently returns a simple 'Redirecting' message, which is common for piracy mirrors that have been blocked or are moving to new addresses. Research confirms that sites in this network often bundle malware or browser-hijacking scripts within their video players. Because there is no legitimate business registration or contact information, the risk to your device is high.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for gogoanime.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- The domain gogoanime.com (registered ~1516 days ago, ~4 years) currently returns only "Redirecting..." with no active anime streaming content, consistent with a parked or inactive domain.
- Gogoanime is a long-standing illegal anime piracy streaming network that has used dozens of mirror domains (e.g. gogoanime.by, anitaku.to, gogoanime.io) due to frequent takedowns.
- Multiple security vendors and removal guides flag Gogoanime-related domains for aggressive pop-up ads, browser redirects, riskware, adware, and links to PUPs/malware (examples: gogoanime.cl blocked by Malwarebytes, gogoanime.so described as
- Gridinsoft assigns gogoanime.com a low 25/100 trust score with blacklist detections and classifies it as suspicious.
- Reddit (/r/animepiracy) discussions frequently debate which domain is "real," warn of malware on certain mirrors, and note the network's history of domain changes and potential shutdowns.
- No formal business registration, Trustpilot, or ScamAdviser profile found for gogoanime.com specifically; WHOIS is typically privacy-protected.
- Current active mirrors in 2025–2026 appear to be variants like gogoanime.by or anitaku.to rather than gogoanime.com.
- Gridinsoftopen
"Gogoanime.com Scam Check: Blacklist Warning (25/100 Trust Score). Suspicious Website... multiple blacklist detections"
- myspybot.comopen
"GoGoAnime pop-up / redirect virus... deceptive ads... redirects web traffic to pages that disseminate malware"
- pcrisk.comopen
"gogoanime.so is not a trusted website... uses rogue advertising networks... deceptive, dubious advertisements and redirects users to dubious websites"
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
Avoid this site
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Do not interact with gogoanime.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Verify the business through independent channels
Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.
- Never use irreversible payment methods
Crypto, gift cards, wire transfers, and cash apps offer zero buyer protection. Use a credit card or PayPal if you must pay.
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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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags gogoanime.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — gogoanime.com scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. gogoanime.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 50 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- gogoanime.com is 4.2 years old, registered on 4/29/2022 through Dynadot Inc. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 3 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged gogoanime.com as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. gogoanime.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- gogoanime.com resolves to an IP operated by Linode 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 23, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around gogoanime.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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