No threats detected
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Is hatena.ne.jp legit or a scam?
Hatena.ne.jp is the legitimate Japanese web portal of a publicly-listed company operating since 2001 with no security threats detected.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
Hatena Co., Ltd. is a well-established Japanese internet services company with a 23-year operating history, public stock listing (code 3930), and active business registration. Our antivirus network shows zero malicious or suspicious detections across 91 engines, and the domain carries a clean reputation score. The hosting IP has zero abuse reports and a clean reputation. SSL is valid and issued by Amazon. Business registration data confirms the company is active, headquartered in Kyoto with offices in Tokyo, and has approximately 200 employees. While the company disclosed a significant CEO-fraud incident in April 2026 resulting in approximately ¥1.1 billion in unauthorized wire transfers, this was a targeted attack on the company's internal finance operations — not a scam perpetrated by the website itself or evidence of compromise of hatena.ne.jp. The site functions as a legitimate portal aggregating user-generated content, bookmarks, and news.
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Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for hatena.ne.jp, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- hatena.ne.jp is the primary domain of Hatena Co., Ltd. (株式会社はてな), a legitimate Japanese company providing blogging (Hatena Blog), bookmarking, and other web services since 2001.
- The company is publicly listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market (code 3930) with approximately 200 employees and capital of ~¥250 million.
- In April 2026, the company publicly disclosed a major BEC/CEO fraud incident resulting in approximately ¥1.1 billion (11億円) being wired out due to fake payment instructions; they formed a special investigation committee and stated no custom
- No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews were found associating hatena.ne.jp itself with fraud, phishing, or impersonation of PayPal or other brands.
- The domain and subdomains (e.g., b.hatena.ne.jp, hatena.blog) are frequently used to discuss or bookmark content about scams, including PayPal phishing warnings.
- Official company site (hatena.co.jp) and Wikipedia confirm registration details, Kyoto HQ, and long operating history with no dissolution or regulatory issues noted.
株式会社はてな, founded 2001 (limited company), reorganized to KK in 2004; listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth (3930); corporate number 1013201014709; offices in Kyoto and Tokyo
Business registration data confirms Hatena Co., Ltd. is an active, publicly-listed Japanese company (Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth, code 3930) founded in 2001 with offices in Kyoto and Tokyo. News sources (ITmedia, Rocket Boys Security Lab, Yahoo News) reported that in April 2026, the company disclosed a CEO-fraud incident in which approximately ¥1.1 billion was fraudulently wired from company bank accounts due to fake payment instructions sent to finance staff. This was a targeted attack on the company's internal operations — not a scam perpetrated by hatena.ne.jp or evidence of website compromise. No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews were found associating the domain itself with fraud, phishing, or impersonation.
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.
- Page impersonates PayPal on a non-official domain.
- Phone number listed (20260608002225).
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://hatena.ne.jp/
- 2301http://www.hatena.ne.jp/cross-domain
- 3200https://www.hatena.ne.jp/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page mentions PayPal (non-official domain).
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page mentions PayPal (non-official domain).
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 hatena.ne.jp and not a lookalike like h-atena.ne.jp.com or an IDN homoglyph.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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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 hatena.ne.jp. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- hatena.ne.jp passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 79/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. hatena.ne.jp presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 124 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 hatena.ne.jp as clean.
- No. hatena.ne.jp is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- hatena.ne.jp resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Data Services Japan in JP (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.
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