No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is nodejs.org legit or a scam?
Official Node.js project site with 16-year domain history, clean scans, and confirmed OpenJS Foundation ownership.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page displays the standard Node.js branding, documentation, and download links that match the project's known public resources. Domain registration dates back 6094 days with no privacy masking and a clean abuse record on the hosting IP. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 91 engines, and browser blocklists show no entries. The evidence package confirms the site is listed as the primary official domain on Wikipedia and GitHub, with active business registration for the OpenJS Foundation. Visual analysis matches the expected professional layout without any clone or phishing indicators.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
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.
No scam visual patterns detected
This is the fully rendered, legitimate Node.js official website (nodejs.org) with professional design and no scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for nodejs.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- nodejs.org is the official website for the Node.js JavaScript runtime (Wikipedia, GitHub repo nodejs/nodejs.org, official about page)
- Maintained by OpenJS Foundation (merged from Node.js Foundation in 2019); copyright notices on site confirm this
- Domain explicitly listed as official for downloads and docs on nodejs.org/en/about; redirects from nodejs.dev and iojs.org
- No scam, complaint, or negative review results tied directly to nodejs.org in searches for 'scam', 'complaint', 'review', 'reddit'
- Domain age given as 6094 days (~16.7 years); first release of Node.js May 2009
- Related domains like node.org exist but redirect or reference nodejs.org as the main source
OpenJS Foundation (successor to Node.js Foundation), San Francisco, CA; facilitates Node.js project
Our research confirms nodejs.org is the official site for the Node.js project, maintained by the OpenJS Foundation with active business registration in the United States. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions were found across general web sources.
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.
- Phone number listed (717.133 231.367).
- Links to 7 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1308http://nodejs.org/
- 2307https://nodejs.org/
- 3200https://nodejs.org/en
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 nodejs.org and not a lookalike like n-odejs.org.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 nodejs.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- nodejs.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. nodejs.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, expiring in 138 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- nodejs.org is 16.7 years old, registered on 9/29/2009 through 1API GmbH. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report nodejs.org as clean.
- No. nodejs.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- nodejs.org 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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