No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is onamae.com legit or a scam?
Official 26-year-old domain registrar site for GMO Internet Group with clean security scans and no scam reports.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual 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 similarities noted — cleared by the overall checks
Our vision model noted some visual similarity to a known brand, but the domain, security records, and reputation checks confirm this is the legitimate site — so this is shown for transparency, not as a red flag.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
Intelligence
The domain onamae.com was registered in December 1999 and belongs to GMO Internet, Inc., a Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed company with active business registration in Japan. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. The site offers legitimate domain registration and hosting services with a dedicated abuse reporting page. Independent review sites show mixed customer feedback including complaints about support and pricing, but no widespread scam reports appear in our research. The combination of long domain history, corporate ownership, and clean technical signals supports a safe classification.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for onamae.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain onamae.com registered 1999-12-17 (26+ years old); expires 2026-12-17; registrar is GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com (IANA ID 49).
- Operated by GMO Internet, Inc., a publicly listed Japanese company (TSE Prime) with HQ in Shibuya, Tokyo; first ICANN-accredited registrar in Asia; claims >35-42 million domains registered and ~630 TLDs offered.
- Site promotes domain registration, rental servers, and related services; has dedicated abuse/misuse reporting page (onamae.com/abuse/) for phishing/spam complaints.
- Trustpilot page for www.onamae.com exists with 9 reviews and overall score 2.2/5 (poor).
- LowEndTalk forum thread (2024) contains a detailed 1/5 customer review citing dashboard ads, forced upsells on misclick, expensive renewals, unsolicited DNS records, excessive marketing emails, slow support, and false-positive suspensions.
- Reddit threads discuss domain purchases/transfers via Onamae.com/GMO and challenges reporting phishing domains hosted/registered there; no widespread scam reports found.
- Company actively promotes anti-abuse measures and has abuse contact (abuse@internet.gmo or abuse@gmo.jp).
GMO Internet, Inc. (GMOインターネット株式会社), parent of Onamae.com by GMO; Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime (code 4784 or group 9449); HQ at Cerulean Tower, 26-1 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8512; established 1991/1999; ICANN registrar ID 49 since 1999.
Our research found no scam reports for onamae.com. Customer complaints appear on Trustpilot (2.2/5 score) and LowEndTalk forums citing dashboard ads, forced upsells, expensive renewals, and slow support. Reddit discussions mention challenges reporting phishing domains hosted through the service, but no widespread fraud reports. The company maintains active abuse contacts and holds long-standing ICANN accreditation.
Domain Timeline
- Dec 17, 1999Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 27 years old today.
- Jul 8, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
onamae.com 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
Security Scans
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.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedDomain & Encryption
Server Reputation
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 onamae.com and not a lookalike like o-namae.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
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
Onamae.com is the official website of GMO Internet Group, a publicly listed Japanese domain registrar operating since 1999. The domain is 26 years old with clean scans and no malware detections. Users should still review service reviews before purchasing.
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 onamae.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- onamae.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 90/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. onamae.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020, expiring in 83 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- onamae.com is 26.6 years old, registered on 12/17/1999 through GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com. 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 onamae.com as clean.
- No. onamae.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- onamae.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.
- Yes. onamae.com sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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