Is ipdsuk.com legit or a scam?
IPDS UK is a long-established engineering firm with a decade-old domain and verified UK business registration, showing no signs of malicious activity.
Score breakdown
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The website appears to be a legitimate corporate landing page for an engineering firm announcing its acquisition, showing no visual indicators of a scam or malicious intent.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProfessional corporate branding for IPDS and NIRAS
Standard navigation menu for an engineering services firm
High-quality industrial background imagery consistent with the industry
Clear acquisition announcement without high-pressure sales tactics
No suspicious pop-ups, countdowns, or fake trust badges visible
MT Intelligence
The domain has been registered for nearly 11 years, which is a strong indicator of a stable and legitimate business. Our analysis confirms that the company, Intelligent Project Design Services Ltd, is an active private limited company in the UK, incorporated in 2015. The website content aligns perfectly with its registered business activities in specialized design and engineering. Visual inspection shows professional corporate branding and a clear announcement regarding its acquisition by NIRAS. No antivirus engines or blocklists flag this site, and there are no reports of fraudulent behavior associated with this domain.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for ipdsuk.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain ipdsuk.com hosts site for IPDS UK / Intelligent Project Design Services Ltd, offering process engineering, design, project management, laser scanning and specialist consultancy to chemical, oil & gas, pharmaceutical and nuclear indus
- Company registered at Companies House as active private limited company number 09759131 since 2 September 2015 with address in Barry, Wales matching site contact details
- LinkedIn company page and employee profiles (e.g. Peter German, Barrie Pike, Trystan Foote) confirm operations as engineering design services provider
- No scam reports, fraud complaints, Trustpilot reviews, Reddit discussions or negative mentions found for ipdsuk.com or the company name
- Site includes standard privacy policy referencing INTELLIGENT PROJECT DESIGN SERVICES LTD; contact email admin@ipdsuk.com and UK phone number listed
- Domain age of ~3937 days (~10.8 years) aligns with company incorporation in 2015
- Separate unrelated Trustpilot page exists for idsuk.net with scam complaints, but no connection to ipdsuk.com
Private limited company INTELLIGENT PROJECT DESIGN SERVICES LTD, company number 09759131, incorporated 2 September 2015, registered office Business Centre Priority Business Park, Cardiff Road, Barry, Vale Of Glamorgan, Wales, CF63 2AW; SIC 74100 Specialised design activities; accounts filed up to 31
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.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://ipdsuk.com/
- 2200https://ipdsuk.com/
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 ipdsuk.com and not a lookalike like i-pdsuk.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 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 ipdsuk.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- ipdsuk.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 91/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. ipdsuk.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR2, expiring in 88 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- ipdsuk.com is 10.8 years old, registered on 9/21/2015 through EuroDNS S.A.. 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 ipdsuk.com as clean.
- No. ipdsuk.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- ipdsuk.com resolves to an IP operated by Sjacob Holding ApS in DK (usage type: Commercial). 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 3, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around ipdsuk.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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