No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is ign.com legit or a scam?
Official IGN gaming news site with a 27-year-old domain, clean security scans, and active US business registration.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site displays the exact title and content of the well-known IGN video game media outlet. Its domain was registered more than 27 years ago through a corporate registrar with no privacy masking. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned zero flags, and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. Business records confirm IGN Entertainment Inc. as an active US company founded in 1996 and owned by Ziff Davis. While some customer-service complaints exist on review platforms, they do not indicate malware or fraud.
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.
No scam visual patterns detected
Clean, professional error page from IGN with no scam indicators visible.
Brand Impersonation
medium confidenceThe page mentions or styles itself as AliExpress, but is hosted on a domain that is not an official AliExpress property.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for ign.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain ign.com is the official website of IGN Entertainment, a major video game media company founded September 29, 1996.
- Operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., subsidiary of Ziff Davis; ~250 employees, HQ in San Francisco/San Francisco SoMa.
- Trustpilot page for www.ign.com and store.ign.com shows 184 reviews with multiple complaints about product quality, refunds, and customer service.
- Reddit threads discuss IGN reviews, store legitimacy concerns, and past 'scam' accusations related to content or purchases.
- No evidence of typosquatting or cloning famous brands; site matches known legitimate gaming news outlet.
- Wikipedia and company pages confirm active status and long history as established media property.
- Trustpilotopen
"They are only out to steal your money, they have to rudest customer service and take days to respond just to respond rudely and refuse to refund your money even though you did not receive any items"
- Redditopen
"This is a scam , there is no other word for it. For shame IGN , I've unbookmarked your website, Ill be asking for a refund of my cash"
- Trustpilotopen
"IGN gets paid for fake review scores of slop games with political agendas. Everybody with a brain knows they can never trust these sellout liars again."
IGN Entertainment Inc., subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc.; founded 1996, HQ San Francisco area
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.
- Page impersonates AliExpress on a non-official domain.
- Links to 3 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://ign.com/
- 2200https://www.ign.com/cross-domain
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 mentions AliExpress (non-official domain).
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 mentions AliExpress (non-official domain).
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 ign.com and not a lookalike like i-gn.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 ign.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- ign.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 86/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. ign.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign Atlas R3 DV TLS CA 2026 Q2, expiring in 180 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- ign.com is 27.9 years old, registered on 7/25/1998 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 ign.com as clean.
- No. ign.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- ign.com 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.
- 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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