No threats detected
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Is npmjs.com legit or a scam?
Official npm registry homepage used by millions of developers for JavaScript package sharing.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site is the primary, long-established registry for the npm package manager. Its domain was registered more than 16 years ago through a major registrar and shows zero flags from our antivirus network or browser blocklists. The hosting IP carries no abuse reports and the SSL certificate is valid. Business records confirm npm Inc. as a real U.S. company acquired by GitHub in 2020. A handful of user complaints exist on review sites about support and spam packages, yet these do not indicate the domain itself is malicious. The visual scan matches the known official homepage with no impersonation or scam 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
Screenshot shows the fully rendered, official npmjs.com homepage with professional design and no scam indicators.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for npmjs.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- npmjs.com is the official website and registry for the npm JavaScript package manager, used by millions of developers.
- npm, Inc. established 2014, acquired by GitHub in March 2020; now part of Microsoft.
- Domain referenced as official in npm documentation, status pages, and Wikipedia.
- Trustpilot page for npmjs.com shows reviews including complaints about package unpublishing and support.
- Multiple Reddit and Hacker News threads discuss spam packages, low-quality uploads, and security concerns on the npm registry.
- No evidence of the domain itself being a typosquat or clone; it is the primary legitimate site.
- Registry at registry.npmjs.org is the default used by the npm CLI.
- Trustpilotopen
"If you don't unpublish your package from npmjs within 24 hours after publishing, then it will be impossible to do this in the future. ... Their support will also reject all your attempts to remove it. I would recommend to every european cit"
- Hacker Newsopen
"Spammers are possibly trying to take advantage of npmjs.com domain's high Google rank. I found and reported this spam account [1] with links to download movies. They seem to be using npmjs as a free web host with good SEO."
- npmjs.comopen
"Relied upon by more than 17 million developers worldwide, npm is committed to making JavaScript development elegant, productive, and safe. The free npm Registry has become the center of JavaScript code sharing, and with more than two millio"
- Wikipediaopen
"It consists of a command line client, also called npm, and an online database of public and paid-for private packages, called the npm registry. ... Over 3.1 million packages are available in the main npm registry."
npm, Inc. founded 2014 in Oakland, California; acquired by GitHub (Microsoft subsidiary) in 2020
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://npmjs.com/
- 2403https://www.npmjs.com/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 npmjs.com and not a lookalike like n-pmjs.com.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.
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 npmjs.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- npmjs.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 94/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. npmjs.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 68 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- npmjs.com is 16.2 years old, registered on 3/19/2010 through MarkMonitor Inc.. 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 npmjs.com as clean.
- No. npmjs.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- npmjs.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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