Is i.redd.it legit or a scam?
Official Reddit image-hosting subdomain with clean security scan and confirmed legitimate status.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The screenshot shows Reddit's own access-blocked interstitial served to automated crawlers; no scam indicators are present and no meaningful content analysis is possible from this blocked state.
What our vision model saw
1 signalPage displays Reddit's official network security block page with Snoo mascot, 'Log in' and 'File a ticket' buttons — the renderer was blocked by Reddit's bot-detection, not a scam page
MT Intelligence
i.redd.it is a subdomain of redd.it, operated by Reddit Inc. since 2005. Our antivirus network flagged zero malware detections across 92 engines, and major browser blocklists show no warnings. The page itself serves Reddit's own access-blocked interstitial to automated crawlers — a standard security measure, not a scam indicator. Community posts on Reddit's cybersecurity forums explicitly confirm the domain is legitimate and safe. No scam reports, phishing complaints, or malware associations exist for this domain in public records. The hosting IP has a clean abuse score of 0/100, and SSL certification is valid and current.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for i.redd.it, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- i.redd.it is Reddit's official image hosting service for uploaded photos, GIFs, and media files.
- Multiple Reddit users in r/cybersecurity_help confirmed it is legitimate and poses no malware risk when accessed via normal Reddit links.
- No scam reports, phishing complaints, or malware associations found specifically for i.redd.it in web searches.
- Related searches for fake Reddit sites refer to unrelated domains mimicking reddit.com or using random subdomains on .org/.net, not i.redd.it.
- The domain is part of the redd.it infrastructure, which is directly associated with Reddit (established 2005).
- Users occasionally express initial confusion or suspicion upon landing on direct image links, but community consensus affirms it as safe and expected behavior.
- No WHOIS-specific details surfaced for the subdomain, but parent domain redd.it is tied to Reddit Inc.
- Reddit r/cybersecurity_helpopen
"i.redd.it is Reddit's image hosting service, if you clicked a i.redd.it link and it showed you an image then it's working as expected."
- Reddit r/cybersecurity_helpopen
"i.redd.it is reddit's image hosting website. You're all good, there's no risk of malware here."
- Linus Tech Tips forumopen
"I.redd.it is official Reddit website?"
Subdomain of redd.it, operated by Reddit Inc. (founded 2005, San Francisco)
i.redd.it is Reddit's official image hosting subdomain, confirmed by multiple community sources. Reddit users in r/cybersecurity_help explicitly stated: 'i.redd.it is Reddit's image hosting service' and 'there's no risk of malware here.' No scam reports, phishing complaints, or malware associations were found in web searches. The domain is part of Reddit Inc.'s infrastructure, which has been operating since 2005. Users occasionally express initial confusion upon landing on direct image links, but community consensus affirms the domain as safe and expected behavior.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
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 i.redd.it and not a lookalike like i-.redd.it.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.
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 i.redd.it. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- i.redd.it passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 93/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. i.redd.it presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1, expiring in 109 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report i.redd.it as clean.
- No. i.redd.it is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- i.redd.it resolves to an IP operated by Fastly, 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 17, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around i.redd.it 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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