Is gooncity.com safe?
http://gooncity.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (58 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading · limited: did not fully complete
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Gooncity is a long-running community pixel-art project with clean security checks
Gooncity.com is a collaborative pixel-art city project that grew out of a Something Awful forums thread. The domain is about 6,691 days old, which is more than 18 years. Its page shows an isometric grid of city plots. Security checks found no malware detections across 93 engines and no Safe Browsing warning. The connection is properly encrypted. The only caution is a shared hosting IP that has some abuse reports. We found nothing on the site that sells, collects payments or pushes downloads.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 86/100
Safe covers scores 85–100. 1 finding pulled the score down; 4 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateThe hosting IP has a moderate abuse score from 53 reports.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe project's origin is documented in a Something Awful forums thread.
- SupportsThe domain is about 6,691 days old (more than 18 years).
- SupportsNo malware detections were found, and Safe Browsing returned no warning.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Gooncity.com is a collaborative pixel-art city project that grew out of a Something Awful forums thread. The domain is about 6,691 days old, which is more than 18 years. Its page shows an isometric grid of city plots. Security checks found no malware detections across 93 engines and no Safe Browsing warning. The connection is properly encrypted. The only caution is a shared hosting IP that has some abuse reports. We found nothing on the site that sells, collects payments or pushes downloads.
A community art project from the Something Awful forums
A forum post announced that GoonCity.com had been registered for a project to build a giant pixel-art "Goon City" with Something Awful members. The post also mentioned a blog listing the contributors' forum screen names.
The screenshot matches that description. It shows a repeating isometric grid of green plots with grey sidewalks and roads, like a pixel-art city-building canvas.
Technical checks are clean, with one hosting caveat
No antivirus engine flagged the site, and Safe Browsing returned no threat warning. A valid encrypted connection was also found.
The server's IP address has an abuse score of 55 out of 100 across 53 saved reports. These reports concern the IP address, not this site specifically. This is common on shared hosting and is not evidence of harm from this site.
The page text was not read in full, so the site's contact details were not reviewed. The domain's long age and the public project history support it being a genuine hobby site.
Why the score is 86
The saved checks and analysis found no material threat. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 58 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 35 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekergames
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
The screenshot shows a repeating isometric grid pattern of green squares (representing plots of land) surrounded by grey borders (sidewalks) and grey roads, characteristic of a pixel-art city-building interface.
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
The screenshot shows a repeating isometric grid pattern of green squares (representing plots of land) surrounded by grey borders (sidewalks) and grey roads, characteristic of a pixel-art city-building interface.
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
The captured page appears to offer a content service.
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 58 antivirus results.
What independent research found
1 external finding was saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The project's origin is documented in a Something Awful forums thread.
- 02The domain is about 6,691 days old (more than 18 years).
- 03No malware detections were found, and Safe Browsing returned no warning.
Web research findings
Independent findings for gooncity.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
- Let's create a giant pixel art Goon City - The Something Awful Forumsopen
"To my surprise GoonCity.com was available. I've put some info in my blog about the project with a list of everyone's SA screen name who has contributed."
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domaingooncity.com
- Redirects togooncity.com
- Hosted byGitHub, Inc.
Domain Timeline
- Jul 2, 2008Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 18 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 27, 2026Saved security review — Rated Safe
This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.
gooncity.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for gooncity.com.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://gooncity.com/
- 2206https://gooncity.com/
Server Reputation
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentpartial
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
The hosting IP has a moderate abuse score from 53 reports.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Oct 27, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 27, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Limited | No saved finding | this scan · Oct 27, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 27, 2026 |
| Independent research | 1 independent finding was saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 27, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 27, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 27, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 27, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 27, 2026
- Independent research
- Result1 independent finding was saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 27, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Gooncity is a long-running community pixel-art project with clean security checks
Gooncity.com is a collaborative pixel-art city project that grew out of a Something Awful forums thread. The domain is about 6,691 days old, which is more than 18 years. Its page shows an isometric grid of city plots. Security checks found no malware detections across 93 engines and no Safe Browsing warning. The connection is properly encrypted. The only caution is a shared hosting IP that has some abuse reports. We found nothing on the site that sells, collects payments or pushes downloads.
09 · Community
Community
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