No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is modrinth.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate Minecraft mod platform with clean scans, 5.8-year domain age, and verified US company registration.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as an open-source hub for Minecraft content with a clear description and project listings. Technical signals are entirely clean with zero malware detections and a well-aged domain. Evidence confirms operation by Rinth, Inc. since 2020 along with favorable Reddit comparisons to established alternatives. A single independent review aggregator complaint exists but describes app performance issues rather than fraud. The gaming-scam template match appears to be a false positive triggered by Minecraft-related content on a non-Mojang domain.
Website Preview
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Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for modrinth.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Operated by Rinth, Inc. based in Delaware, United States (per terms of use)
- Beta launched November 30, 2020 as open-source Minecraft mod platform
- Maintains official GitHub organization with 19 repositories
- Offers Modrinth App via Flathub, Homebrew, and direct download
- Compared favorably to CurseForge in multiple Reddit threads
- Trustpilot page exists with mixed customer service reviews
- Domain age listed as 2139 days (~5.86 years)
- Trustpilotopen
"It's basically just a scam . I tried downloading modpacks. Not only does this useless app default to WAY too low memory allocation for modpacks,"
- Redditopen
"I just discovered the existence of Modrinth around like a month ago and from my general understanding, it seems to be a better version of Curseforge and ..."
Operated by Rinth, Inc., Delaware; founded 2020, private company
Scam Network Intelligence
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.
- Page impersonates Minecraft on a non-official domain.
- Scam family match: Gaming Scam.
- Phone number listed (7.76 14.12 14.12).
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
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.
- Page mentions Minecraft (non-official domain).
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.
- Page mentions Minecraft (non-official domain).
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 modrinth.com and not a lookalike like m-odrinth.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.
Referenced Domains
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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 modrinth.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- modrinth.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 70/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. modrinth.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 42 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- modrinth.com is 5.9 years old, registered on 7/17/2020 through Cloudflare, 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 modrinth.com as clean.
- No. modrinth.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- modrinth.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.
- 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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