No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is icio.us legit or a scam?
This looks safe to use.
icio.us shows the Apache2 default page on a 2002-registered domain once used by del.icio.us with zero scam reports or blocklist hits.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual 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 similarities noted — cleared by the overall checks
Our vision model noted some visual similarity to a known brand, but the domain, security records, and reputation checks confirm this is the legitimate site — so this is shown for transparency, not as a red flag.
What our vision model saw
2 signalsDisplays standard Apache2 Ubuntu default server configuration page
Screenshot incomplete (slow render) — page HTML loaded normally, ignoring parked-domain heuristic.
Intelligence
The page displays the standard Apache2 Ubuntu default welcome message, indicating the server is running but the intended site content is not currently active. The domain was registered on May 3, 2002, specifically to host the del.icio.us social bookmarking service that later became a Yahoo acquisition and is now maintained as a read-only archive. Our antivirus network returned no flags, browser blocklists show clean, and the hosting IP carries a zero abuse score. Web research found no scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions across available sources. The combination of long domain history, clean infrastructure signals, and absence of malicious indicators points to a legitimate but currently misconfigured or temporarily unavailable site rather than any fraudulent operation.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for icio.us, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- The domain icio.us was registered on May 3, 2002, as a 'domain hack' to facilitate the creation of the del.icio.us social bookmarking service.
- The del.icio.us service was a prominent social bookmarking platform founded in 2003, which was acquired by Yahoo! in 2005 and subsequently changed hands multiple times.
- In 2017, the bookmarking service was acquired by Pinboard and transitioned to a read-only archive state.
- The current state of the domain is a 'link museum' or archive, maintained by Maciej Ceglowski, intended to allow users to access and export their historical data.
- The 'Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page' observed on the domain suggests it may currently be pointing to a default server configuration rather than the active archive site, or that the site is experiencing technical issues.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for icio.us and didn't find scam reports or complaints. The domain's documented history as the foundation for del.icio.us provides context for its legitimacy despite the current default page.
Threat Detection
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
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
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
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 icio.us and not a lookalike like i-cio.us.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
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
The domain icio.us currently serves the default Apache2 Ubuntu welcome page. The domain was registered in 2002 as the base for the del.icio.us bookmarking service and has no scam reports or malicious detections.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, 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 icio.us, so it appears legitimate. it ranks among the world's most-visited sites, Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
- icio.us passed our automated checks with a trust score of 80/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
- Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from icio.us), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from icio.us is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
- No — icio.us is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- Yes — icio.us presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Gandi SAS · GandiCert, valid for another 126 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- icio.us resolves to an IP operated by Datacate Inc. in US (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- Yes — icio.us ranks in the global top 100,000 most-visited sites, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. Genuine popularity doesn't automatically make a site safe, but throwaway scam domains almost never reach this level of traffic, so it's a meaningful point in the site's favour.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 17, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about icio.us has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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