No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is lync.com legit or a scam?
Authentic Microsoft Lync/Skype for Business domain with clean scans, valid Microsoft SSL, and 31-year registration history.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The domain lync.com belongs to Microsoft and serves Skype for Business Online services. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned zero flags, while the hosting IP shows minimal abuse history. The WHOIS record confirms registration through MarkMonitor Inc. more than 31 years ago, a common setup for Microsoft properties. The page displays a standard automated-request block message alongside legitimate Microsoft navigation links. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators appear in our research, confirming this is the genuine Microsoft domain rather than an impersonation.
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
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for lync.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- lync.com resolves to Skype for Business Online / Microsoft Lync services (e.g., https://lync.com/ page title references team collaboration)
- Subdomains like sipdir.online.lync.com and webdir.online.lync.com are standard Microsoft DNS targets for Lync/SfB Online in Office 365 setups
- Domain registered via MarkMonitor Inc. (common for Microsoft); WHOIS available at whois.com/whois/lync.com
- Domain age exceeds 11,000 days (~31 years); long-established Microsoft property
- No direct scam, complaint, or review references found specifically for lync.com (searches for scam/review/complaint/reddit returned only unrelated Skill-Lync or legacy Microsoft DNS discussions)
- Page blocks requests with generic message; no brand impersonation or tech-support content observed in search results
- Netify and Microsoft community sources confirm association with Microsoft Teams/Lync services
Registered via MarkMonitor Inc.; associated with Microsoft services
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Scam family match: Tech-Support Scam.
- Phone number listed (2024.303).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://lync.com/
- 2301https://products.office.com/skype-for-businesscross-domain
- 3301https://products.office.com/skype-for-business/online-meetingscross-domain
- 4302https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/previous-versions/skype-for-business-onlinecross-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.
- Classic tech-support scare copy found (fake Microsoft/Apple alert, remote-access instructions).
- Primary scraped category: fake tech-support page.
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.
- Classic tech-support scare copy found (fake Microsoft/Apple alert, remote-access instructions).
- Primary scraped category: fake tech-support page.
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 lync.com and not a lookalike like l-ync.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 lync.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- lync.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 87/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. lync.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Microsoft Corporation · Microsoft TLS G2 RSA CA OCSP 02, expiring in 95 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- lync.com is 31.2 years old, registered on 3/21/1995 through MarkMonitor 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 lync.com as clean.
- No. lync.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- lync.com resolves to an IP operated by Microsoft Corporation in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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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