Warning signs detected
17-year-old ICANN-accredited registrar with repeated complaints of account closures and domain seizures on hosting forums. Several risk indicators suggest caution. This site might be legitimate — but treat it as unverified until you can independently confirm.
Is pananames.com legit or a scam?
17-year-old ICANN-accredited registrar with repeated complaints of account closures and domain seizures on hosting forums.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
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 red flags detected in the screenshot
The site presents a professional and clean design for a domain services provider with no immediate visual indicators of scam or phishing activity.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProfessional layout with consistent branding and high-quality typography
Functional navigation menu including About, Pricing, SSL, API, and FAQ
Mock dashboard graphic uses placeholder-style names like 'Sue B. Query' and 'Hosty McServerton'
No aggressive urgency tactics, fake countdowns, or intrusive pop-ups visible
The design appears to be a legitimate domain registrar or management service landing page
Intelligence
The domain itself is old and the company holds real ICANN accreditation since 2009, which rules out a fly-by-night operation. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned clean results with no malware or phishing detections. The strongest negative signal comes from the evidence package: four separate complaints on WHTop, NamePros, and WebHostingTalk describe sudden account closures, domain theft, and withheld refunds. an independent review aggregator shows only four reviews averaging 2.5/5, and no positive reviews surfaced in our research. The combination of long history plus persistent service-quality complaints points to a legitimate but high-risk provider rather than outright fraud.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for pananames.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered 2009-04-07 (17+ years old); registrar is URL Solutions, Inc. (IANA 1449), self-hosted on pananames.com
- Company: URL Solutions Inc., Panama-based, ICANN-accredited domain registrar; claims 1M+ domains registered, 450+ TLDs, 1000+ resellers
- Trustpilot: 4 reviews, TrustScore 2.5/5 (as of Jun 2026)
- WHTop: 2 reviews averaging 1/10; specific complaints of account suspension, domain seizure without refund, poor support response
- Older forum posts (2013 NamePros, WebHostingTalk): accusations of scam and non-response to support
- ScamAdviser: rates pananames.com as 'very likely not a scam but legit and reliable' based on age, SSL, popularity
- Company operates abuse reporting page and has ICANN-mandated contacts; linked in some reports to bulk domain registrations used in ad/malware networks
- WHTopopen
"Illegal account closure and domain theft... After which my account was closed and the domains were stolen. The money was also not returned... This company steals domains and apparently takes money to close domains."
- WHTopopen
"The exact same thing happened to me just last week by this company. It was a slightly different wording on their scam. But they did the same thing. I am fighting them on it but their support is terrible."
- NameProsopen
"They are a scam . They will take your money and run! My recommendation: stay away from those pirates."
- WebHostingTalkopen
"They are a scam . They will take your money and run! My recommendation: stay away from those pirates."
URL Solutions Inc. d/b/a PanaNames, ICANN accredited registrar IANA ID 1449 since 2009; address Edificio Ipasa, Piso 3, Panama; owner Konstantin Bezruchenko
Our research located four complaints across WHTop, NamePros, and WebHostingTalk. Users report sudden account closures followed by domain seizures and withheld refunds, with support described as unresponsive. an independent review aggregator lists only four reviews averaging 2.5/5. No positive reviews or independent endorsements were found in the sources examined.
Domain Timeline
- Apr 7, 2009Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 17 years old today.
- Jul 8, 2026Latest security review — Flagged as suspicious
This scan re-ran every check; the current findings are detailed above.
pananames.com is an established domain now carrying threat signals. An older domain that starts tripping security checks is a classic pattern for an asset that was sold, repurposed, or compromised — the age alone is not reassurance.
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 · referencedContact 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 phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://pananames.com/
- 2200https://pananames.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
Proceed with caution
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Treat pananames.com as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- Verify the business through independent channels
Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.
- Never use irreversible payment methods
Crypto, gift cards, wire transfers, and cash apps offer zero buyer protection. Use a credit card or PayPal if you must pay.
- OpenShare your experience
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Final Verdict
Pananames is a 17-year-old domain registrar with an active ICANN accreditation. Multiple forum complaints allege account closures and domain seizures without refunds, and recent review scores sit at 2.5/5.
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 marked pananames.com as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.
- pananames.com currently scores 55/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. pananames.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by GoDaddy.com, Inc. · Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, expiring in 147 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- pananames.com is 17.3 years old, registered on 4/7/2009 through URL Solutions, Inc.. 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 pananames.com as clean.
- No. pananames.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- pananames.com resolves to an IP operated by URL SOLUTIONS INC in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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 July 8, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around pananames.com 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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