No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is manuals-us.handleidingkwijt.com legit or a scam?
Subdomain of a 16-year-old Dutch manual database with clean scans and verified business registration.
Analysis Summary
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 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 similarities noted — cleared by the overall checks
Our vision model noted some visual similarity to a known brand, but the domain, security records, and reputation checks confirm this is the legitimate site — so this is shown for transparency, not as a red flag.
What our vision model saw
1 signalPage renders a 400 Bad Request error in JSON format
Intelligence
The domain manuals-us.handleidingkwijt.com is a subdomain of handleidingkwijt.com, which has existed since 2010. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP carries no abuse reports. The parent company HandleidingKwijt B.V. is registered in Rotterdam with active VAT and Chamber of Commerce numbers. The page itself returned a 400 error, but this appears to be a technical issue rather than a sign of malicious intent. No scam reports or complaints were found for this domain or its parent in our research.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for manuals-us.handleidingkwijt.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain manuals-us.handleidingkwijt.com is a subdomain of handleidingkwijt.com (Dutch manual database site, origins ~2010, company founded 2012 as Manuall)
- Parent company: HandleidingKwijt B.V. registered in Netherlands (Rotterdam address, VAT NL861096691B01, CoC 77685601)
- Site hosts user manuals/PDFs; referenced in product review blogs and forums (e.g., Japanese futon dryer review, LEGO instructions, hearing aid manual)
- No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews found specifically for manuals-us.handleidingkwijt.com or handleidingkwijt.com
- Related sites like Fixitfaster.nl (different manual service) have consumer complaints about unexpected charges (Dutch media 2024), but no link to this domain
- Scam-detector gives handleidingkwijt.com medium-high trust score (77.4); no Trustpilot/ScamAdviser listings found
- Domain age 16.4 years aligns with company history; used for hosting manual images/PDFs across multiple languages/sites
HandleidingKwijt B.V., Weena 690, 3012 CN Rotterdam; VAT NL861096691B01, CoC 77685601 (from privacy policy on related Manuall sites)
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for manuals-us.handleidingkwijt.com and didn't find scam reports or complaints. The parent company HandleidingKwijt B.V. is registered in the Netherlands with active VAT and CoC records. Related manual services have drawn complaints, but none connect to this domain.
Domain Timeline
- Feb 27, 2010Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 16 years old today.
- Jul 9, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
manuals-us.handleidingkwijt.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedDomain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://manuals-us.handleidingkwijt.com/
- 2400https://manuals-us.handleidingkwijt.com/
Server Reputation
What to do
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 manuals-us.handleidingkwijt.com and not a lookalike like m-anuals-us.handleidingkwijt.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
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
This is a subdomain serving user manuals for the established Dutch site handleidingkwijt.com. The 16-year-old domain shows no malicious detections and the parent company is registered in the Netherlands.
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 manuals-us.handleidingkwijt.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- manuals-us.handleidingkwijt.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. manuals-us.handleidingkwijt.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 85 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- manuals-us.handleidingkwijt.com is 16.4 years old, registered on 2/27/2010 through OVH sas. 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 manuals-us.handleidingkwijt.com as clean.
- No. manuals-us.handleidingkwijt.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- manuals-us.handleidingkwijt.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 9, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around manuals-us.handleidingkwijt.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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