No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is icann.org legit or a scam?
Official ICANN site managing domain names and IP addresses worldwide, with a domain registered over 27 years ago.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents the standard professional homepage of ICANN with normal navigation and event content. Its domain age of 10126 days places registration around 1998, far older than typical scam operations. Business records confirm active non-profit status in the United States. One antivirus engine returned a malicious flag while browser blocklists and IP reputation stayed clean. independent review aggregator reviews contain complaints about ICANN fees and service but do not indicate the website itself is fraudulent or cloned.
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, professional ICANN.org homepage with standard navigation and legitimate event promotion. No scam indicators or visual anomalies present.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for icann.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - icann.org is the official website of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a non-profit managing domain names and IP addresses.
- - ICANN maintains pages warning about phishing emails impersonating their organization and provides reporting mechanisms for suspicious activity.
- - Trustpilot lists 20 customer reviews for icann.org with an overall score of 1.7/5, including multiple accusations of fraud or inaction.
- - Reddit threads discuss ICANN verification emails, with some users confirming legitimacy via registrars while noting phishing risks.
- - ICANN operates lookup.icann.org for registration data (RDAP/WHOIS) and handles contractual compliance complaints against registrars/registries.
- - No evidence of icann.org itself being a typosquat or clone; it is the established original domain (registered ~1998 based on provided age).
Non-profit corporation responsible for IP address allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name and root server system management.
independent review aggregator lists multiple negative reviews accusing ICANN of high fees and poor service. Reddit threads mention ICANN verification emails and note phishing risks from impersonators rather than the official site itself. No evidence appears of icann.org operating as a clone or fraudulent domain.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://icann.org/
- 2403https://www.icann.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 icann.org and not a lookalike like i-cann.org.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Trust History
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
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 icann.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- icann.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 73/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. icann.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36, expiring in 214 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- icann.org is 27.7 years old, registered on 9/14/1998 through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 91 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged icann.org as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. icann.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- icann.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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