No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is hianime.com legit or a scam?
hianime.com appears as a standard domain-for-sale page on Spaceship.com with a 10-year-old registration and no scam signals.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page content explicitly shows a domain marketplace listing with a $24,000 buy-now price and offer form, hosted on spaceship.com infrastructure. The domain itself is over 10 years old with valid SSL and a clean IP reputation showing only minimal abuse reports. No scam families, browser blocklist hits, or clone indicators were detected in our scan. Our research found zero scam reports or complaints tied to this exact domain. The related hianime.to anime site shutdown explains why traffic may still reach this .com variant, but the current page is simply a sales listing.
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 hianime.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- hianime.com is currently listed for sale on Spaceship.com with description noting it attracts organic type-in visitors
- The popular HiAnime anime streaming service (formerly Zoro.to / Aniwatch.to) operated mainly on hianime.to and permanently shut down on or around March 13, 2026
- No scam reports, complaints, or reviews specifically reference hianime.com; searches primarily surface results for hianime.to
- Domain age is 3614 days (~10 years); some 2026 traffic data reported (e.g., ~128K visits in April per Semrush)
- Wikipedia and news sources confirm HiAnime service shutdown after being one of the largest anime piracy sites
- Reddit threads mention users encountering the for-sale page when attempting to access HiAnime content
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.
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
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 contains e-commerce copy (cart / checkout / shipping).
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 contains e-commerce copy (cart / checkout / shipping).
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 hianime.com and not a lookalike like h-ianime.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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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 hianime.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- hianime.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 82/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. hianime.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 59 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- hianime.com is 9.9 years old, registered on 7/9/2016 through TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. hianime.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- hianime.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. 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.
- 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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