No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is nhentai.net legit or a scam?
Long-established hentai doujinshi site with clean scans, 12-year-old domain, and strong trust scores from independent reviewers.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a dedicated hentai and doujinshi reader with hundreds of thousands of galleries and loads normal adult content without any phishing or malware indicators. Its domain was registered in 2014 and shows a clean reputation across browser blocklists and IP data. Only one antivirus engine flagged it while the rest returned clean results. Independent review sites consistently rate it as legitimate with high trust scores and no scam reports appear in our research. A Delaware company operates the site and it is currently involved in a copyright lawsuit rather than any fraud activity. The combination of age, clean technical signals, and positive third-party feedback supports a safe classification for adult users.
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 nhentai.net, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered June 26, 2014; expires June 26, 2026; WHOIS privacy protected via Whois Privacy Protection Foundation (Netherlands registrar)
- Operated by X Separator LLC, a Delaware-registered company, publicly identified in 2025 U.S. court filings
- Ongoing U.S. federal copyright infringement lawsuit filed August 2024 by PCR Distributing (JAST USA/J18) against the site; X Separator LLC filed answer and counterclaims in late 2025
- Multiple independent safety scanners (Scamadviser, Scam Detector, Scamvoid, Checksite AI) rate the site as safe/legit with high trust scores (e.g., 95.5/100)
- Reddit community (r/nhentai) consistently identifies nhentai.net as the official site; variants like nhentai.to described as fakes/scams/rip-offs
- Site self-describes as hosting over 618,000 hentai/doujinshi galleries; no detected malware/phishing families in provided data
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, we think nhentai . net is legit and safe for consumers to access."
- Scam Detectoropen
"Is nhentai . net safe? This website is secure, scoring one of the highest scores on our chart. ... The Scam Detector’s algorithm gives this business the following rank: 95.5/100"
- Trustpilotopen
"Good for the most part. They sometimes have Cloudflare ddos protection which is annoying. ... the content is mostly good except for the AI generated crap"
- WOTopen
"Porn site - NOT for children. ... Community reviews ★ 4.3"
Operated by X Separator LLC (Delaware company), identified via court filings in copyright lawsuit
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 phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://nhentai.net/
- 2200https://nhentai.net/
Server Reputation
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 nhentai.net and not a lookalike like n-hentai.net.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
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 nhentai.net. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- nhentai.net 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. nhentai.net presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 52 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- nhentai.net is 11.9 years old, registered on 6/25/2014 through Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged nhentai.net as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. nhentai.net is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- nhentai.net 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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