No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is memcached.org legit or a scam?
This looks safe to use.
Official Memcached project site with 19.7-year-old domain, clean antivirus results, and no scam signals detected.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
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.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows the legitimate Memcached project website, which is a well-known open-source memory caching system.
What our vision model saw
2 signalsThe page displays the official documentation and download portal for the Memcached open-source project.
Content is consistent with established technical project websites.
Intelligence
The domain memcached.org has been registered since 2006 and hosts the official documentation and downloads for the well-known open-source memory caching system. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. The page content matches the established project site, including links to GitHub, Discord, and documentation resources. The single scam report found appears to be an automated false positive that contradicts the project's documented history and widespread use by major platforms. Visual analysis confirms the page displays legitimate project documentation rather than any deceptive layout.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for memcached.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Memcached.org is the official website for Memcached, a widely used, free, and open-source distributed memory object caching system.
- The project was originally developed in 2003 by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal and is maintained by a community of developers.
- Memcached is a legitimate developer tool used by major platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, and YouTube to improve web application performance.
- While the software itself is legitimate, misconfigured Memcached servers have historically been exploited by attackers to perform Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) amplification attacks.
- The 'Scam Detector' report flagging the site as a 'façade' appears to be a false positive or automated misclassification, as the site is widely recognized as the authoritative source for the open-source project.
- The software is designed to run within trusted, private networks; it lacks built-in authentication by default, which can lead to security risks if exposed to the public internet.
- Scam Detectoropen
"Scam Detector has determined that memcached.org in the popular Software & SaaS industry is merely a façade... The algorithm detected high-risk activity related to phishing, spamming"
Our research located one automated scam report that flagged memcached.org as suspicious. The report appears to be a false positive generated by an algorithm that did not account for the site's established history as the official home of the open-source Memcached project. No user complaints, scam reports from individuals, or negative reviews were found. The project is documented as having been developed in 2003 and is used by major platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, and YouTube.
Domain Timeline
- Oct 17, 2006Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 20 years old today.
- Jul 17, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
memcached.org 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 · referencedThe plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
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.
- Phone number listed (2009-2018).
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
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 memcached.org and not a lookalike like m-emcached.org.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 the official website for the Memcached open-source project. The domain is 19.7 years old with clean scans and no malicious indicators.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, 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 memcached.org, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, and the domain is 19.8 years old, registered on October 17, 2006 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
- memcached.org passed our automated checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
- Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from memcached.org), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from memcached.org is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
- No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report memcached.org as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
- No — memcached.org is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- memcached.org is 19.8 years old, registered on October 17, 2006 through Gandi SAS. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
- Yes — memcached.org presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, valid for another 70 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- memcached.org resolves to an IP operated by DigitalOcean, LLC in US (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 17, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about memcached.org has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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