No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is nyaa.si legit or a scam?
Established anime and manga torrent site that replaced the original NyaaTorrents in 2017 with clean security scans and no scam reports.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The domain nyaa.si is over nine years old and serves as the direct successor to the well-known NyaaTorrents tracker that shut down in 2017. Our antivirus network returned zero malicious flags and only one suspicious result, while browser blocklists are clean. The page content matches its stated purpose as a community torrent index for Eastern Asian media. Independent sources confirm it as the legitimate replacement site rather than a fraudulent clone. No scam reports or complaints appear in our research, supporting a safe classification despite the torrent nature of the content.
Website Preview
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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
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for nyaa.si, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain nyaa.si registered May 9, 2017; expires May 9, 2028; WHOIS private (registrant O829401, status client_delete_prohibited etc.); hosted via IQWeb LLC (Belize IP noted in some scans)
- Site self-describes and is widely discussed as BitTorrent tracker for anime/manga/Eastern Asian media; successor to prior Nyaa domains
- Reddit r/animepiracy threads frequently reference nyaa.si as primary source for anime torrents, with discussions on trusted uploads, seed reliability, and alternatives
- One security scan (pcrisk.com May 2026) gives 89/100 trust score; 1/92 engines flagged; no major malware on site itself per reports
- Scamadviser notes site flagged for illegal content (file-sharing) but 'very likely not a scam but legit and reliable'
- Wikipedia and torrends.to confirm nyaa.si as popular replacement for defunct NyaaTorrents; original site had fake mirrors reported in 2017
- User reports of spam/malware torrents on site (common torrent ecosystem issue); no site-wide scam or phishing campaigns identified
nyaa.si launched as replacement after original NyaaTorrents (nyaa.se) shutdown in May 2017; described as clone site in multiple sources
Our research found no scam reports or consumer complaints about nyaa.si. Multiple sources describe it as the direct replacement for the original NyaaTorrents after the 2017 shutdown, with references on Reddit and torrent directories confirming its role as a BitTorrent index for anime and manga content.
Scam Network Intelligence
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 (2026-06-01 14).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://nyaa.si/
- 2200https://nyaa.si/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
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 nyaa.si and not a lookalike like n-yaa.si.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 nyaa.si. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- nyaa.si passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 74/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. nyaa.si presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 85 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- nyaa.si is 9.1 years old, registered on 5/9/2017 through SAAX d.o.o.. 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 nyaa.si as malicious or suspicious. Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. nyaa.si is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- nyaa.si resolves to an IP operated by IQWeb FZ-LLC in BZ (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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