SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

Security Review

Is nic.cz legit or a scam?

This looks safe to use.

Official .cz domain registry operated by CZ.NIC since 1997 with zero malicious detections and verified business status.

Cross-checked against 8 independent sources — none raised a concern
nic.czScanned 2h ago
0/100
Trust score
0 = danger · 100 = safe
SAFE
Score breakdown
Heuristics 100·MT 92
Screenshot of nic.czSee the live page ↓
Positive signals (5)
Antivirus clearNot on major blacklistsDomain is 29 years oldEncrypted connectionClean server reputation
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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
29 years old
Registered Oct 29, 1997

Website Preview

Screenshot of nic.cz
LIVE RENDER
nic.cz

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.

Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
Analysis
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust92/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The site presents itself as CZ.NIC, the national registry for .cz domains, and the evidence confirms this identity through business registration details and operational history. The domain was registered in 1997, giving it nearly three decades of continuous operation. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines, the hosting IP shows no abuse history, and browser blocklists are clean. The page content matches the expected role of a domain registry, including statistics on registered domains and links to related services like DNSSEC and CSIRT.CZ. No scam families triggered and no reports of malicious activity appear in the evidence package.
Positive Signals
5
  • Domain registered in 1997 with 28.7 years of continuous operation.
  • Zero detections across 92 antivirus engines and clean browser blocklist status.
  • Hosting IP shows zero abuse reports and a 0/100 abuse score.
  • Active business registration in Czech Republic with verified entity status.
  • One positive review from independent sources confirming reliability.
The full analysis

Page Content

The page displays the CZ.NIC branding and provides registry services including domain searches, statistics showing 1,574,567 registered .cz domains, and news about internet security topics. It links to related projects such as MojeID, DNSSEC, and CSIRT.CZ. The site contains no login forms, no countdown timers, and no elements typical of credential harvesting or scam pages.

Infrastructure

The site runs on IP 217.31.205.50 with an abuse score of 0/100 and no reported abuse incidents. SSL is valid and issued by Let's Encrypt with 56 days remaining. The page loads external resources from legitimate related domains including turris.cz, mojeid.cz, and dnssec.cz. Two redirects occurred during the scan with no cross-domain or homoglyph activity detected.

Domain History

The domain nic.cz was registered on 1997-10-30 and is 28.7 years old. It is operated by CZ.NIC, z. s. p. o. with business ID 67985726, registered as an active entity in the Czech Republic. The registrar field is not specified in the scan data.

Web Reputation

Our research found one positive review describing the site as reliable and secure. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions were located. The evidence package confirms the site is the official .cz registry and has coordinated national cybersecurity efforts through CSIRT.CZ since its founding.

What this means for you

This is the legitimate operator of the Czech national domain registry. Users can safely interact with the site for .cz domain registration and related services.

AI Recommendation
The site is safe to use for .cz domain registration and related registry services.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for nic.cz, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration
Active · Czech Republic
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
1 positive
Key findings
5 headline facts from open-web research
  • Official administrator and registry for the .cz (Czech Republic) country-code top-level domain.
  • Operated by CZ.NIC, an association of legal entities founded in 1998 by leading ISPs.
  • Coordinates the national security team CSIRT.CZ for resolving cyber security incidents in the Czech Republic.
  • Maintains the central WHOIS database for all .cz domain registrations.
  • Provides infrastructure services including DNSSEC, mojeID (identity service), and the FRED open-source registration system.
Positive reviews (1)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • Scam Detectoropen

    "The algorithm detected little high-risk activity related to phishing, spamming... Long story short, we deem this a reliable and secure website."

Business registration
Status: active · Czech Republic

CZ.NIC, z. s. p. o. (Business ID 67985726) is the official national domain registry for the .cz ccTLD.

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

Our research located one positive review stating the site shows little high-risk activity and is considered reliable and secure. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions were found across the sources checked. The evidence confirms CZ.NIC operates as the official registry for .cz domains with an active business registration in the Czech Republic.

Domain Timeline

  1. Oct 29, 1997
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 29 years old today.

  2. Jul 14, 2026
    Latest security review — Reviewed as safe

    This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.

nic.cz 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

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious61Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not queried
ESET-NOD32
Not queried
Avira
Not queried
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Not queried
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

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.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

Technical Details

The 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.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers01.07.2026 14
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles3
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Phone number listed (01.07.2026 14).
  • Links to 3 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age29 years old
RegistrarHidden
RegisteredOct 29, 1997
ExpiresMar 14, 2027
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YE2
ExpiresSep 8, 2026 (56d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingCZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
Server locationCZ
Web servernginx
PopularityTop 100k worldwide

Redirect Chain

Hops
2
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1308http://nic.cz/
  • 2301https://nic.cz/
  • 3200https://www.nic.cz/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPCZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

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 nic.cz and not a lookalike like n-ic.cz.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.

  • Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

    Open

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·nic.cz
SAFE

nic.cz is the official registry for Czech .cz domains. The domain has operated since 1997 with clean security scans and active business registration.

The site is safe to use for .cz domain registration and related registry services.

AV engines
92
Domain age
29 yrs
Flagged
0
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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 nic.cz, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, it ranks among the world's most-visited sites, and the domain is 28.7 years old, registered on October 29, 1997 — 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.
  • nic.cz passed our automated checks with a trust score of 95/100. 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 nic.cz), 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 nic.cz 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 nic.cz 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 — nic.cz 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.
  • nic.cz is 28.7 years old, registered on October 29, 1997. 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 — nic.cz presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE2, valid for another 56 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".
  • nic.cz resolves to an IP operated by CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o. in CZ (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.
  • Yes — nic.cz ranks in the global top 100,000 most-visited sites, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. Genuine popularity doesn't automatically make a site safe, but throwaway scam domains almost never reach this level of traffic, so it's a meaningful point in the site's favour.
  • This report is a record of the scan run on July 14, 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 nic.cz 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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