Is nic.video legit or a scam?
Official registry infrastructure for the .video top-level domain operated by Identity Digital with over 11 years of clean history.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
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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
MT Intelligence
The domain serves as the official Network Information Center (NIC) for the .video extension. Our analysis confirms it is managed by Identity Digital, a reputable US-based company that handles hundreds of global domain types. The site has been active for over 4,200 days and matches official global internet records for this extension. All security engines and blocklists show the domain is clean. There are no signs of malicious intent or deceptive practices.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for nic.video, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- nic.video is the official name server domain for the .video top-level domain (v0n0.nic.video through v2n1.nic.video with listed IPs).
- Registry operator is Dog Beach, LLC (c/o Identity Digital Inc., Bellevue, WA, USA); transferred to Dog Beach in June 2021 from United TLD Holdco, Ltd (delegated 2014).
- Registration services and RDAP point to https://www.identity.digital/ and https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/.
- Identity Digital manages a large portfolio of gTLDs including .video, .live, .media, .games and others; claims 86% of Fortune 50 companies use their domains.
- No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews found across web searches, Reddit, or review sites. No association with malicious activity.
- Domain age of ~11.6 years (4237 days) aligns with .video TLD launch timeline; WHOIS server is whois.nic.video.
- Page title and description match Identity Digital's official registry branding and services.
Dog Beach, LLC (c/o Identity Digital Inc.), Bellevue, WA. ICANN-approved registry operator for .video TLD since 2021 transfer (originally delegated 2014).
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.
- Phone number listed (2021-2025).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://nic.video/
- 2301http://identity.digital/cross-domain
- 3200https://identity.digital/cross-domain
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 nic.video and not a lookalike like n-ic.video.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
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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 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.video. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- nic.video passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 86/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. nic.video presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, expiring in 105 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- nic.video is 11.6 years old, registered on 11/18/2014 through Registry Operator acts as Registrar (9999). 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 nic.video as clean.
- No. nic.video is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- nic.video resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 26, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around nic.video have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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