Is profile.hatena.ne.jp a scam?

Our automated security review found no threat indicators on profile.hatena.ne.jp. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.

Is profile.hatena.ne.jp safe to use?

profile.hatena.ne.jp 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.

Does profile.hatena.ne.jp have a valid SSL certificate?

Yes. profile.hatena.ne.jp presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M03, expiring in 112 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.

Has profile.hatena.ne.jp been flagged by antivirus engines?

No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report profile.hatena.ne.jp as clean.

Is profile.hatena.ne.jp on any phishing or malware blacklists?

No. profile.hatena.ne.jp is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.

Where is profile.hatena.ne.jp hosted?

profile.hatena.ne.jp resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in JP (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.

How often is the profile.hatena.ne.jp report updated?

This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 15, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around profile.hatena.ne.jp have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Security Review

Is profile.hatena.ne.jp legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 90/100

SafeSuspiciousDangerous

Official Hatena profile service — a legitimate Japanese web platform with 20+ years of operation and clean security standing.

Why we trust it

Hatena Co., Ltd. is a registered active Japanese corporation founded in 2001 with confirmed corporate registration number.Zero malware detections across 91 antivirus engines and clean browser blocklists.Hosting IP has zero abuse reports and a reputation score of 0/100 (clean).

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Trust score

SAFE

Heuristics 87·MT 92

Positive signals (4)

Antivirus clear Not on major blacklists Encrypted connection Clean server reputation

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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence

0/91

All engines report clean

Domain Age

—

Registration date unknown

MT Intelligence

Safe

Low likelihood · 95% confidence

SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

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profile.hatena.ne.jp

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MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence

MT Security Analyst

Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust92/100

MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection

Confidence

profile.hatena.ne.jp is a subdomain of Hatena Co., Ltd., a registered active Japanese corporation founded in 2001 and headquartered in Kyoto. Our research confirms this is the official profile service used across Hatena's ecosystem (blogs, bookmarks, user accounts) since at least 2013. The domain carries a 99/100 trust score from independent security scanners, with zero malware detections across 91 engines and no abuse reports on the hosting IP. Business registration data shows Hatena is a legitimate operating company (corporate number 1013201014709). No scam reports, phishing indicators, or credential-harvesting patterns were found. The page itself is a straightforward profile-settings interface with no suspicious redirects, login traps, or malicious scripts.

Full dossier

Analysis complete

Page Content

The page is a profile-settings interface for Hatena's user-account system. It displays information about Hatena profiles, sign-up options, and links to terms of service and privacy policy. No login form, countdown timers, or push-notification spam detected. External resources load only from Hatena's own domains and Google Tag Manager (standard analytics).

Infrastructure

Hosted on Amazon infrastructure (IP 54.250.172.83) with valid SSL certificate issued by Amazon. The hosting IP has zero abuse reports and a clean reputation score. No redirects or domain-spoofing indicators present.

Domain History

profile.hatena.ne.jp is an official subdomain of hatena.ne.jp, operated by Hatena Co., Ltd. since at least 2013 when profile functionality was migrated to this subdomain. The parent domain hatena.ne.jp has been in operation for over 20 years.

Web Reputation

Independent security scanners rate the domain 99/100 for trust. Zero detections from our antivirus network and major browser blocklists. Business registration confirms Hatena Co., Ltd. is an active, legitimate Japanese corporation. No scam reports or complaints found in consumer-review databases.

Positive Signals

Hatena Co., Ltd. is a registered active Japanese corporation founded in 2001 with confirmed corporate registration number.
Zero malware detections across 91 antivirus engines and clean browser blocklists.
Hosting IP has zero abuse reports and a reputation score of 0/100 (clean).
Valid SSL certificate from Amazon with 112 days remaining.
Official subdomain used for user profiles across Hatena's legitimate service ecosystem since 2013.

AI Recommendation

This is a safe, legitimate service. You can use your Hatena profile without concern. If you create an account, follow standard security practices (strong password, two-factor authentication if available).

Next-gen fraud intelligence

Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for profile.hatena.ne.jp, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration

Active · Japan

Site traces back to an actively registered business.

Clone check

Not a clone

No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.

Typosquat check

No look-alike match

The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.

Web mentions

2 positive

Key findings

7 headline facts from open-web research

profile.hatena.ne.jp is the official profile service subdomain of Hatena (hatena.ne.jp / hatena.co.jp), a well-established Japanese web services company founded in 2001.
Hatena operates popular services including Hatena Bookmark (b.hatena.ne.jp), Hatena Blog, and user profiles for nicknames, self-introductions, and photos used across their ecosystem.
Official 2013 announcement confirms the profile functionality was migrated to profile.hatena.ne.jp with redirects from previous URLs.
Security scans rate hatena.ne.jp highly (99/100 trust score, no flags from 91 engines). No direct scam reports or complaints found for the profile subdomain.
Some user profiles on the domain contain promotional or spam-like links (e.g., casino, betting, affiliate), but these are user-generated, not indicative of the platform itself being malicious.
Hatena Co., Ltd. is a registered active Japanese corporation (法人番号 1013201014709) with physical address in Kyoto; recently reported suffering a large CEO fraud incident but remains operational.
No evidence of phishing, malware distribution, or cloning of other brands associated with this specific domain.

Positive reviews (2)

Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.

PCRisk Scanneropen
"Is hatena.ne.jp safe to visit? Check our automated security scan: trust score 99/100, 0/91 engines flagged"
Vocal Mediaopen
"Hatena.ne.jp helps improve your online visibility by allowing you to share blogs, articles, and creative content, engage with a large Japanese audience."

Business registration

Status: active · Japan

Hatena Co., Ltd. (株式会社はてな), founded 2001 in Kyoto, Japan. Corporate number 1013201014709. Operates hatena.ne.jp services including profiles, blogs, and bookmarks.

Research summary

Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

Our research confirmed that profile.hatena.ne.jp is the official user-profile subdomain of Hatena Co., Ltd., a well-established Japanese web-services company. Hatena was founded in 2001 and operates popular services including Hatena Bookmark, Hatena Blog, and user profiles. The profile subdomain has been in use since at least 2013. Independent security scanners rate hatena.ne.jp at 99/100 for trust with zero flags from 91 antivirus engines. Business registration records show Hatena Co., Ltd. is an active corporation registered in Japan (corporate number 1013201014709). No scam reports, phishing complaints, or malware incidents were found associated with this domain.

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified

Clean across 91 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 91 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious59Harmless91Engines

Clean

Kaspersky

Clean

Bitdefender

Clean

Microsoft

Not in pass

ESET-NOD32

Not in pass

Avira

Not in pass

Sophos

Clean

Fortinet

Clean

Google Safebrowsing

Clean

Emsisoft

Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check

Not flagged on major threat lists

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.

What We Found

No clear contact details on the page

Emails on site's domainNone

Phone numbersNone

Postal addressNot listed

Linked social profiles0

Signal Summary

Several contact red flags

No contact email found anywhere on the page.
No phone number listed on the page.
No postal address visible on the page.

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate

StatusValid

ProtocolTLSv1.2

IssuerAmazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M03

ExpiresOct 5, 2026 (112d)

Self-signedNo

Hosting & Technology

HostingAmazon.com, Inc.

Server locationJP

Web servernginx

Redirect Chain

Hops

Cross-domain

Lookalike

Punycode

1301http://profile.hatena.ne.jp/
2200https://profile.hatena.ne.jp/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence

Confidence score0%

Reports on file0

ISPAmazon.com, Inc.

Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

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 profile.hatena.ne.jp and not a lookalike like p-rofile.hatena.ne.jp.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.
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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 ↗

Referenced Domains

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

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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 profile.hatena.ne.jp. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
profile.hatena.ne.jp 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. profile.hatena.ne.jp presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M03, expiring in 112 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report profile.hatena.ne.jp as clean.
No. profile.hatena.ne.jp is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
profile.hatena.ne.jp resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in JP (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 June 15, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around profile.hatena.ne.jp have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

Trust / 100

Final Verdict·profile.hatena.ne.jp

SAFE

This is the official user-profile subdomain of Hatena, a legitimate Japanese web-services company founded in 2001. Clean security scans, active business registration, and no scam reports confirm it is safe.

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