No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is inc.com legit or a scam?
Official Inc. Magazine site with a 30-year-old domain, clean scans, and active US business registration.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The domain has existed since 1994 and matches the known owner of Inc. Magazine. No antivirus engines or browser blocklists flagged the page. The hosting IP shows zero abuse reports. Visual inspection found only a standard anti-bot check with no scam elements. Evidence confirms the site belongs to an established New York media company that itself warns the public about impersonators.
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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
Clean verification interstitial with standard anti-bot slider challenge and explanatory text. No scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for inc.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- inc.com is the official website of Inc. Magazine, a business publication founded in 1979.
- Owned by Mansueto Ventures LLC since 2005, headquartered in New York City at 7 World Trade Center.
- Publishes the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the US.
- Domain age of 11048 days (~30 years) consistent with established media brand.
- Inc. Magazine publishes warnings about fraudulent companies impersonating their brand for sales scams.
- Adheres to NewsGuard's nine standards of credibility and transparency.
- Inc. Magazine Help Centeropen
"Please beware of companies that claim the use of our brand (Inc. Business Media and Inc. Magazine) and use high-pressure sales tactics and make false claims, as they are not affiliated with Inc. Business Media or Inc. Magazine."
- Facebookopen
"The photos and excerpts are stolen images from legit magazines with the fraudster's text superimposed. These are strictly scams to gain your info and your money"
- Inc.comopen
"Inc.com adheres to NewsGuard's nine standards of credibility and transparency."
Owned by Mansueto Ventures LLC, New York City; founded 1979, acquired 2005
Our research found that inc.com is the official website of Inc. Magazine, owned by Mansueto Ventures LLC since 2005. Two scam reports mention fraudulent third parties falsely claiming affiliation with the brand, but none accuse the actual site. The publication itself publishes warnings about these impersonators. Business records confirm active registration in the United States.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://inc.com/
- 2403https://www.inc.com/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 inc.com and not a lookalike like i-nc.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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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 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 inc.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- inc.com 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. inc.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign Atlas R3 DV TLS CA 2025 Q3, expiring in 84 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- inc.com is 30.3 years old, registered on 3/6/1996 through Amazon Registrar, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report inc.com as clean.
- No. inc.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- inc.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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