No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is io-spherehq.com legit or a scam?
Expired domain displaying Porkbun's default expiration page with clean scans and no scam detections.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page content is the registrar's own expired-domain notice rather than any active website or scam material. Browser blocklists are clean and the hosting IP carries a zero abuse score. No scam reports or complaints appear for this exact domain in our research. The 381-day age and lack of traffic indexing are consistent with a lapsed registration rather than a newly created fraudulent site. Related legitimate company io-sphere.io exists but is a separate domain.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for io-spherehq.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain page title is 'porkbun.com | expired domain'
- No web search results reference io-spherehq.com (exact phrase or domain)
- Related domain io-sphere.io is a UK data & AI training provider with Companies House registration (IO SPHERE LIMITED, company 14356607)
- io-sphere.io has Trustpilot rating of 4.3/5 based on 92 reviews
- No scam, complaint, or review mentions found for io-spherehq.com
- Domain age listed as 381 days; appears parked/expired on Porkbun registrar
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.
Domain & Encryption
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 io-spherehq.com and not a lookalike like i-o-spherehq.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 io-spherehq.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- io-spherehq.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 70/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- io-spherehq.com is 1.0 year old, registered on 5/16/2025 through Porkbun LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. io-spherehq.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- io-spherehq.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, 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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