Security Review

Is int08h.com legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 92/100

Established developer blog (9.7 years old) with clean reputation, active open-source projects, and valid business registration — no fraud signals detected.

int08h.comScanned 57m ago
0
Trust score
SAFE
Heuristics 99·MT 88
View density

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/91
All engines report clean
Domain Age
10 years old
Registered Sep 23, 2016
MT Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 95% confidence
SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

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Screenshot of int08h.com
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int08h.com

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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.

4
/ 100
Low visual risk

Visual red flags detected in the screenshot

The screenshot shows a minimal, professionally structured developer blog with technical content and standard navigation; no scam indicators are present.

Visual risk4/100

What our vision model saw

4 signals

Clean personal/technical blog layout with navigation links to BLOG, GITHUB, and ABOUT — consistent with a legitimate developer site.

Blog post titles are technical in nature (Roughtime protocol, Rust implementation, web architecture) with no commercial or financial solicitation.

Footer displays a copyright notice attributed to int08h LLC with a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license link — professionally formatted.

No trust badges, urgency timers, pop-ups, forms, or credential-harvesting elements visible.

Brand Impersonation

medium confidence

The page mentions or styles itself as Minecraft, but is hosted on a domain that is not an official Minecraft property.

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust88/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The domain has been registered for nearly a decade and hosts a professionally maintained technical blog focused on the Roughtime secure-time protocol. Our antivirus network flagged nothing malicious, and the page displays standard developer-blog structure with technical blog posts, GitHub links, and proper licensing attribution. Business registration confirms int08h LLC as an active entity operated by Stuart Stock. The single Minecraft reference appears in a 2017 blog post title used as a metaphor for web architecture, not as brand impersonation or cloning activity. No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews exist across web sources. The site's IP and infrastructure show no abuse history.
Full dossier
Analysis complete

Page Content

The site is a minimal, professionally structured developer blog with navigation to Blog, GitHub, and About sections. Blog post titles are technical in nature (Roughtime protocol, Rust implementation, web architecture). Footer displays copyright attribution to int08h LLC with CC-BY-SA 4.0 licensing. No commercial solicitation, credential-harvesting forms, urgency timers, or trust badges are present.

Infrastructure

Valid SSL certificate issued by Google Trust Services with 89 days to expiry. Hosting IP 151.101.65.195 has an abuse score of 0/100 with only 2 historical abuse reports (typical for shared CDN infrastructure). No redirect chains or homoglyph indicators detected.

Domain History

Registered 3,551 days ago (~9.7 years) via NameCleap, Inc. WHOIS privacy is disabled, showing legitimate operator details. Business registration confirms int08h LLC as an active United States entity operated by Stuart Stock.

Web Reputation

Zero detections across our antivirus network (0/91 engines). Clean browser blocklists. No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews found in web searches, Reddit, or review aggregators. The Roughtime project is referenced positively in IETF, Chromium, and Rust communities.

Positive Signals
5
  • Domain registered 9.7 years ago with consistent technical content history.
  • Valid SSL certificate and clean antivirus reputation (0/91 engines flagged).
  • Business registration confirmed for int08h LLC, operator publicly identified.
  • Active open-source projects (Roughtime implementations) with community recognition.
  • Professional site structure, proper licensing attribution, and no credential-harvesting elements.
AI Recommendation
This site is safe to visit. It is a legitimate developer blog with open-source projects and technical content. No action is needed.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for int08h.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Domain age
9.7 yrs
Registered Sep 2016
Business registration
Active · United States
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
No scam reports found
No complaints, no negative coverage turned up in our sweep.
Key findings
7 headline facts from open-web research
  • Domain registered ~3551 days ago (~9.7 years); personal site of Stuart Stock / int08h LLC
  • Primary content: technical blog on Roughtime secure time protocol, with public server at roughtime.int08h.com and open-source Rust (roughenough) + Java (nearenough) implementations on GitHub
  • One 2017 blog post titled "The Future Web: Minecraft or Call-of-Duty?" uses Minecraft as a metaphor for open web architecture; no other Minecraft references or cloning activity
  • No scam reports, complaints, negative reviews, or security warnings found across web searches, Reddit, or review sites
  • Contact: stuart@int08h.com; Twitter @int08h; content licensed CC-BY-SA 4.0; site generated with Hugo
  • IP associated with roughtime.int08h.com is in OVH US range (Ashburn, VA); referenced positively in IETF, Chromium, and Rust communities
  • No evidence of malicious activity, phishing, malware, or brand impersonation
Business registration
Status: active · United States

int08h LLC; operated by Stuart Stock; personal technical blog with open-source Roughtime projects

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for int08h.com and found no scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews. The domain operator, Stuart Stock, is publicly identified with active open-source projects (Roughtime protocol implementations) that are referenced positively in IETF, Chromium, and Rust community discussions. Business registration confirms int08h LLC as an active entity. The single Minecraft reference in a 2017 blog post is a metaphorical comparison of web architectures, not brand impersonation or cloning activity.

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 91 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 91 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious59Harmless91Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not in pass
ESET-NOD32
Not in pass
Avira
Not in pass
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Clean
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

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.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers2017-2026
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles1
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Page impersonates Minecraft on a non-official domain.
  • Phone number listed (2017-2026).

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age10 years old
RegistrarNameCheap, Inc.
RegisteredSep 23, 2016
ExpiresSep 23, 2026
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WR3
ExpiresSep 12, 2026 (89d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingFastly, Inc.
Server locationUS
Platform / CMSHugo 0.161.1
PopularityTop 100k worldwide

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://int08h.com/
  • 2200https://int08h.com/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file2
ISPFastly, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

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 int08h.com and not a lookalike like i-nt08h.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.

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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

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 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 int08h.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
  • int08h.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. int08h.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WR3, expiring in 89 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • int08h.com is 9.7 years old, registered on 9/23/2016 through NameCheap, 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 int08h.com as clean.
  • No. int08h.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
  • int08h.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.
  • Yes. int08h.com sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·int08h.com
SAFE

int08h.com is a legitimate personal technical blog operated by Stuart Stock, featuring open-source Roughtime protocol implementations and developer content with no scam indicators.

This site is safe to visit. It is a legitimate developer blog with open-source projects and technical content. No action is needed.

AV engines
91
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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