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Is pi-hole.net safe?

http://pi-hole.net/

95/100
Safe

Analysis coverage: strong · 3 of 5 core capabilities

Verdict

Pi-hole.net is the official site for the Pi-hole network ad blocker

Pi-hole.net is the legitimate homepage and documentation hub for the open-source Pi-hole network-wide ad blocking project operated by Pi-hole LLC. All deterministic signals including VirusTotal (0 malicious detections), Google Safe Browsing (clean), valid TLS, 11-year-old domain, and clean IP reputation confirm safety. Page content matches the well-known project with transparent team details, own-domain contact addresses, and links to GitHub and community forums.

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No antivirus detections across 92 engines
Visit https://pi-hole.net/ directly for official Pi-hole resources. Verify downloads only from the linked GitHub repositories. No additional precautions are required beyond standard safe browsing practices.
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01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

Pi-hole.net is the legitimate homepage and documentation hub for the open-source Pi-hole network-wide ad blocking project operated by Pi-hole LLC. All deterministic signals including VirusTotal (0 malicious detections), Google Safe Browsing (clean), valid TLS, 11-year-old domain, and clean IP reputation confirm safety. Page content matches the well-known project with transparent team details, own-domain contact addresses, and links to GitHub and community forums.

What the site appears to do

The site presents itself as the official resource for installing and configuring Pi-hole, an open-source DNS sinkhole that blocks advertisements and trackers across an entire network. It includes step-by-step installation guides, feature descriptions, team information, and links to documentation, GitHub repositories, Discourse forums, and social profiles.

Decisive evidence

VirusTotal reports 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections across 92 engines with a clean reputation. Google Safe Browsing returned no threats. The domain was registered in 2015 and shows no signs of recent changes or suspicious infrastructure. Page positives include a legal@pi-hole.net contact address and verified social links. No credential harvesting, deceptive downloads, or external redirects to malicious domains were observed.

Practical user impact

Users can safely visit the site to download the installer, read documentation, or join the community. No financial transactions or personal data collection beyond voluntary contact occurs. The project remains a trusted, long-standing open-source tool with no observed deceptive or harmful behaviors.

Why the score is 95

The saved analysis does not include enough completed checks for a Safe rating. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.

02 · Security Evidence

Security evidence

Antivirus Engines

Saved result - stale

No detections across 92 engines

No antivirus engine in this saved scan raised an adverse result. This is one signal, not a guarantee.

Malicious
0
Suspicious
0
Total
92
All 92 engine results
  • 0xSI_f33d - unrated - Clean
  • Abusix - clean - Clean
  • Acronis - clean - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - clean - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - clean - Clean
  • AlienVault - clean - Clean
  • alphaMountain.ai - clean - Clean
  • AlphaSOC - unrated - Clean
  • Antiy-AVL - clean - Clean
  • ArcSight Threat Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • AutoShun - unrated - Clean
  • Bfore.Ai PreCrime - unrated - Clean
  • BitDefender - clean - Clean
  • Bkav - unrated - Clean
  • BlockList - clean - Clean
  • Blueliv - clean - Clean
  • Certego - clean - Clean
  • ChainPatrol - unrated - Clean
  • Chong Lua Dao - clean - Clean
  • CINS Army - clean - Clean
  • Cluster25 - unrated - Clean
  • CRDF - clean - Clean
  • Criminal IP - unrated - Clean
  • CSIS Security Group - unrated - Clean
  • CTX AI - clean - Clean
  • Cyan - unrated - Clean
  • Cyble - clean - Clean
  • CyRadar - clean - Clean
  • desenmascara.me - clean - Clean
  • DNS8 - unrated - Clean
  • Dr.Web - clean - Clean
  • EmergingThreats - clean - Clean
  • Emsisoft - clean - Clean
  • Ermes - unrated - Clean
  • ESET - clean - Clean
  • ESTsecurity - clean - Clean
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - clean - Clean
  • Fortinet - clean - Clean
  • Fortra - unrated - Clean
  • G-Data - clean - Clean
  • GCP Abuse Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • Google Safe Browsing - clean - Clean
  • GreenSnow - clean - Clean
  • GreyNoise - unrated - Clean
  • Gridinsoft - unrated - Clean
  • Guardpot - unrated - Clean
  • Heimdal Security - clean - Clean
  • Hunt.io Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • IPsum - clean - Clean
  • Juniper Networks - clean - Clean
  • K7AntiVirus - unrated - Clean
  • Kaspersky - clean - Clean
  • LevelBlue - clean - Clean
  • Lionic - clean - Clean
  • Lumu - unrated - Clean
  • Malwared - clean - Clean
  • MalwarePatrol - clean - Clean
  • MalwareURL - unrated - Clean
  • Mimecast - unrated - Clean
  • Netcraft - unrated - Clean
  • OpenPhish - clean - Clean
  • PhishFort - unrated - Clean
  • Phishing Database - clean - Clean
  • Phishtank - clean - Clean
  • PREBYTES - clean - Clean
  • PrecisionSec - unrated - Clean
  • Quick Heal - clean - Clean
  • Quttera - clean - Clean
  • Rising - clean - Clean
  • SafeToOpen - unrated - Clean
  • Sangfor - clean - Clean
  • Sansec eComscan - unrated - Clean
  • Scantitan - clean - Clean
  • SCUMWARE.org - clean - Clean
  • Seclookup - clean - Clean
  • Snort IP sample list - unrated - Clean
  • SOCRadar - unrated - Clean
  • Sophos - clean - Clean
  • StopForumSpam - clean - Clean
  • Sucuri SiteCheck - clean - Clean
  • ThreatHive - clean - Clean
  • URLhaus - clean - Clean
  • URLQuery - clean - Clean
  • Viettel Threat Intelligence - clean - Clean
  • VIPRE - unrated - Clean
  • ViriBack - clean - Clean
  • VX Vault - clean - Clean
  • Webroot - clean - Clean
  • Xcitium Verdict Cloud - clean - Clean
  • Yandex Safebrowsing - clean - Clean
  • ZeroCERT - clean - Clean
  • ZeroFox - unrated - Clean

Security Scans

Browser Threat Feed
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.

03 · Investigation Story

Investigation story

The behavior, reputation, and operator evidence that explains how this site may affect a visitor.
  1. 1

    What the site claims

    Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking

  2. 2

    What we observed

    The page content was captured and checked alongside 92 antivirus results.

  3. 3

    What independent research found

    No complete independent-research result was available in this saved report.

  4. 4

    What remains unverified

    2 of the five core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.

What kind of site and risk is this?

Threat category

No threat category confirmed

Service and business model

Content

Free

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗
Also verify:Spamhaus ↗DNSBL / SURBL ↗PhishTank ↗

04 · Domain & Infrastructure

Domain & infrastructure

Timeline · identity · encryption · redirects · hosting

The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.

Infrastructure map

How the saved page connected to the wider web.

Domainpi-hole.net
Redirects topi-hole.net
Hosted byWebhosting Holdings LLC
Referencesfonts.gstatic.com · gmpg.org

Domain Timeline

  1. Mar 20, 2015
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 11 years old today.

  2. Jul 30, 2026
    Saved security review — Reviewed as safe

    This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.

pi-hole.net 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.

Contact Verification

Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.

What We Found
Has a contact email on its own domain
Emails on site's domainlegal@pi-hole.net, adblock@pi-hole.net
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles9
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • Contact email on the site's own domain (legal@pi-hole.net).
  • Links to 10 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age11 years old
RegistrarPorkbun LLC
RegisteredMar 20, 2015
ExpiresMar 20, 2033
Owner privacyUnknown
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YE2
ExpiresOct 6, 2026 (67d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingWebhosting Holdings LLC
Server locationUS
Web serverLiteSpeed
Platform / CMSWordPress
PopularityTop 100k worldwide

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://pi-hole.net/
  • 2200https://pi-hole.net/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPWebhosting Holdings LLC
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

fonts.gstatic.comgmpg.orgjs.stripe.comfonts.googleapis.comgithub.comreddit.comtwitter.com

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
Completed analysis

The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.

AntiviruspartialBrowser threat feedcompletePage contentcompleteAnalysiscompleteVisual evidencenot run

Technical threat

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

unknown

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Operator / customer risk

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

unknown

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Source coverage and freshness

Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.

Antivirus
Result: 0 of 92 engines flagged
Limited
No saved finding
Freshness: stale fallback · Jul 30, 2026
Browser protection
Result: No browser threat-list match
Completed
No adverse finding
Page content
Result: Page fetched · HTTP 200
Completed
No adverse finding
Visual evidence
Result: No usable visual evidence was saved
Unavailable
No saved finding
Independent research
Result: Independent research was not available for this report
Unavailable
No saved finding

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

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 pi-hole.net and not a lookalike like p-i-hole.net 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.

  • Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

    Open
Final verdictLevel 1 of 5
95/100 safety

Safe

Pi-hole.net is the official site for the Pi-hole network ad blocker

Pi-hole.net is the legitimate homepage and documentation hub for the open-source Pi-hole network-wide ad blocking project operated by Pi-hole LLC. All deterministic signals including VirusTotal (0 malicious detections), Google Safe Browsing (clean), valid TLS, 11-year-old domain, and clean IP reputation confirm safety. Page content matches the well-known project with transparent team details, own-domain contact addresses, and links to GitHub and community forums.

  1. 01

    The saved analysis does not include enough completed checks for a Safe rating.

  2. 02

    0 malicious detections across 92 engines

  3. 03

    Domain registered March 2015 (4149 days old)

Visit https://pi-hole.net/ directly for official Pi-hole resources. Verify downloads only from the linked GitHub repositories. No additional precautions are required beyond standard safe browsing practices.
Evidence balance7 signals
Positive
3
Limited
3
Risk
1
Analysis coverage
75%
strong coverage
Core capabilities
3/5
completed checks
Source coverage
2/5
sources complete
Evidence checks
0/7
completed checks flagged
Technical threatNot confirmed50/100 risk
Operator / customer riskNot confirmed50/100 risk
Safety range

Saved evidence only. Missing checks are never treated as a clean result.

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07 · Community

Community

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08 · Safety FAQ

Safety FAQ

Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.

Is pi-hole.net legit and safe?
Our automated security review found no threat indicators on pi-hole.net, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, it ranks among the world's most-visited sites, and the domain is 11.4 years old, registered on March 20, 2015 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
Is pi-hole.net safe to use?
pi-hole.net has a Safety Score of 95/100 (Safe). Fresh core checks and semantic analysis found no material threat at scan time. Treat unexpected login or payment requests with normal caution.
Could a legitimate site like pi-hole.net still be used in a scam?
Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from pi-hole.net), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from pi-hole.net is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
Has pi-hole.net been flagged by antivirus engines?
No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report pi-hole.net as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
Is pi-hole.net on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — pi-hole.net is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
How old is the pi-hole.net domain?
pi-hole.net is 11.4 years old, registered on March 20, 2015 through Porkbun LLC. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
Does pi-hole.net have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — pi-hole.net presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE2, valid for another 67 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
Where is pi-hole.net hosted?
pi-hole.net resolves to an IP operated by Webhosting Holdings LLC in US (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
Is pi-hole.net a well-known website?
Yes — pi-hole.net ranks in the global top 100,000 most-visited sites, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. Genuine popularity doesn't automatically make a site safe, but throwaway scam domains almost never reach this level of traffic, so it's a meaningful point in the site's favour.
How often is the pi-hole.net report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on July 30, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about pi-hole.net has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.