No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is iana.org legit or a scam?
Official IANA site for internet resource coordination with a 31-year-old domain and completely clean security scans.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page content matches the well-known Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, which manages DNS root zones, IP addresses, and protocol registries. The domain is over 31 years old and registered to a corporate registrar without privacy masking. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned zero detections while the hosting IP shows minimal abuse history. Visual analysis confirms the authentic professional layout with no signs of cloning or tampering. Evidence from our research shows no scam reports and explicit confirmation that the site belongs to Public Technical Identifiers, an ICANN affiliate.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
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.
No scam visual patterns detected
Screenshot shows the fully rendered, legitimate IANA.org site with clean professional layout and no scam indicators present.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for iana.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- iana.org is the official website of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which coordinates DNS root, IP addressing, and protocol parameters.
- IANA functions are provided by Public Technical Identifiers (PTI), an affiliate of ICANN.
- No scam reports, malware associations, or negative reviews identified in web searches for 'scam', 'complaint', or 'reddit'.
- Site maintains an official customer complaint resolution process and abuse reporting guidance.
- ICANN's 2024 IANA Functions Customer Engagement Survey reports consistently high satisfaction levels.
- Domain referenced in technical contexts (e.g., DNS blackhole servers like prisoner.iana.org) but no evidence of malicious use of the domain itself.
Operated by Public Technical Identifiers (PTI), a non-profit affiliate of ICANN; IANA functions historically under ICANN oversight.
Our research found no scam reports or complaints about iana.org. Positive mentions include confirmation that the site is operated by Public Technical Identifiers as an ICANN affiliate and reports of consistently high satisfaction in official customer surveys.
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
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://iana.org/
- 2200https://www.iana.org/cross-domain
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 iana.org and not a lookalike like i-ana.org.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 iana.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- iana.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. iana.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36, expiring in 221 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- iana.org is 31.0 years old, registered on 6/5/1995 through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report iana.org as clean.
- No. iana.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- iana.org resolves to an IP operated by ICANN in US (usage type: Commercial). 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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