No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is mickkeast.com legit or a scam?
This looks safe to use.
Personal art portfolio for Brisbane artist Mick Keast on a 10.8-year-old domain with clean scans and no scam reports.
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.
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 403 Forbidden error
Intelligence
The domain mickkeast.com has been active since September 2015 and serves as the documented portfolio for a real Brisbane artist with exhibition records in Australian galleries and the National Library of Australia. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. The page currently returns a 403 Forbidden response, which blocks content rendering but does not indicate malicious intent. Web research found no scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions across multiple sources. The combination of long domain age, clean technical signals, and verifiable artist identity points to a legitimate personal site rather than any fraudulent operation.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for mickkeast.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- The domain mickkeast.com is the personal portfolio and blog of Mick Keast, a contemporary artist based in Brisbane, Australia.
- Mick Keast is a verified member of the 'New Quotidian Collective' and has exhibited works at galleries such as the Side Gallery and Pine River Art Gallery.
- The artist's work is documented in the National Library of Australia (NLA) archives, specifically catalogs for exhibitions like 'Everyday Aesthetics of Plenty' (2024).
- The website features original content including digital photography, satirical drawings, and 'Mickey’s Mad Meanjin Meanderings' (philosophical musings about Brisbane).
- The domain has been registered since September 2015 and shows consistent use as an art blog with no history of malicious activity or scam reports.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for mickkeast.com and didn't find scam reports or complaints. The domain is documented as the personal portfolio of Brisbane artist Mick Keast with exhibition records in Australian galleries and the National Library of Australia.
Domain Timeline
- Sep 16, 2015Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 11 years old today.
- Jul 13, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
mickkeast.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 · 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 phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
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 mickkeast.com and not a lookalike like m-ickkeast.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 the personal portfolio and blog of Brisbane artist Mick Keast. The domain has been registered since 2015 with no scam reports or malicious detections. No contact details are visible on the current page due to a 403 error.
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 mickkeast.com, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, and the domain is 10.8 years old, registered on September 16, 2015 — 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.
- mickkeast.com passed our automated checks with a trust score of 84/100. 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 mickkeast.com), 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 mickkeast.com 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 mickkeast.com 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 — mickkeast.com 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.
- mickkeast.com is 10.8 years old, registered on September 16, 2015 through Tucows Domains Inc.. 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 — mickkeast.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, valid for another 36 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".
- mickkeast.com resolves to an IP operated by Google LLC in NL (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 13, 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 mickkeast.com 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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