Is rankwave.live safe?
http://rankwave.live/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Nine-day-old 'Rank Wave' marketing site claims a London office but shows no verifiable operator identity
rankwave.live presents itself as a digital marketing agency, offering a 'Get a Free Quote' button and a 'Schedule a Free Call' prompt. The domain is only 9 days old, the page lists a generic London office address, and no operator postal address is visible on the captured page. The name overlaps with a defunct South Korean company and a separate active marketing site, which raises identity-confusion concerns. No malware or phishing detections were recorded, but the combination of a brand-new domain, unverifiable identity, and an unencrypted connection places this in the Moderate Risk band.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 58/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 3 findings pulled the score down; 1 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateNo operator postal address is visible on the captured page, and the only address-like text is a generic London office line often associated with virtual-office services.-14 pts
- ModerateThe 'Rank Wave' name overlaps with a defunct South Korean company and a separate active marketing site, creating identity-confusion risk.-14 pts
- MinorThe registrable domain is only 9 days old, so there is no established reputation or history to assess.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsNo malicious or suspicious detections were recorded across 93 engines, and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 86 to 58 and split those 28 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger. Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
rankwave.live presents itself as a digital marketing agency, offering a 'Get a Free Quote' button and a 'Schedule a Free Call' prompt. The domain is only 9 days old, the page lists a generic London office address, and no operator postal address is visible on the captured page. The name overlaps with a defunct South Korean company and a separate active marketing site, which raises identity-confusion concerns. No malware or phishing detections were recorded, but the combination of a brand-new domain, unverifiable identity, and an unencrypted connection places this in the Moderate Risk band.
Unverifiable operator identity behind a brand-new domain
The registrable domain rankwave.live is only 9 days old, meaning there is no established history, reputation, or track record to evaluate. New domains are not inherently malicious, but they remove the main trust signal a visitor would otherwise rely on when deciding whether to hand over contact details or payment.
The site presents itself as a London-based agency, yet the captured page shows no operator postal address, and the only address-like text is a generic 'Office 19050 182-184 High Street North' line. That style of address is commonly associated with virtual-office or mail-forwarding services rather than a staffed business location, so it does not independently confirm a real London operation.
The 'Rank Wave' name also overlaps with a defunct South Korean company founded in 2011, and with a separate active marketing site that lists a Sheridan, Wyoming address. This creates brand-confusion risk: a visitor searching for either entity could land on this new domain without realizing it is a different operation.
Clean detections, but an unencrypted connection and a lead-capture funnel
Technical checks are clean: no malicious or suspicious detections were recorded across 93 engines, and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. These results mean no known threat was flagged at scan time; they do not verify the operator's legitimacy or the safety of engaging with the business.
A valid TLS certificate exists for the host, but the scanned address was served over plain HTTP with no redirect to HTTPS, so the connection was not encrypted. For a site that invites visitors to schedule calls and request quotes, this is a meaningful technical weakness: any information submitted through an unencrypted page travels in the clear.
The commercial flow is a standard lead-capture funnel. The page shows a 'Get a Free Quote' call to action and a 'Schedule a Free Call' prompt, directing visitors to contact the agency for services. There is no checkout, no payment form, and no cross-domain order path observed in the evidence, so the immediate risk is to personal data and time rather than to card details.
Why the score is 58
No operator postal address is visible on the captured page, and the only address-like text is a generic London office line often associated with virtual-office services. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 57 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 36 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Unrated
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekernewly registered websites
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
GET A FREE QUOTE
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
GET A FREE QUOTE
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Rank Wave – Where Ideas Become Content
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/terms-of-service/Read
- Refund / returns policy/refund_returns/Read
- Contact page/contact-information/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Rank Wave – Where Ideas Become Content
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 57 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The registrable domain is only 9 days old, so there is no established reputation or history to assess.
- 02No operator postal address is visible on the captured page, and the only address-like text is a generic London office line often associated with virtual-office services.
- 03The page offers a 'Get a Free Quote' button and a 'Schedule a Free Call' prompt, directing visitors to contact the agency for services.
Web research findings
Independent findings for rankwave.live, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
- Tracxnopen
"RankWave is a deadpooled company based in Seoul (South Korea), founded in 2011 by SungWha Shim."
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
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.
- Domainrankwave.live
- Redirects torankwave.live
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesgmpg.org · stats.wp.com
Domain Timeline
- Oct 24, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 9 days old when this review was saved.
- Nov 3, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
rankwave.live was registered very recently when this review was saved. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, so a young domain whose evidence is mixed or incomplete warrants extra caution.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (support@rankwave.live).
- Phone number listed (+31631283487).
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
A certificate issued weeks or days before the scan on a domain registered recently is common on short-lived sites, though new legitimate sites look the same.
Certificate issued for rankwave.live.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Site platform
- WordPress
Analytics and ads
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Chat, reviews and email
- Tawk.to chat
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No operator postal address is visible on the captured page, and the only address-like text is a generic London office line often associated with virtual-office services. · The 'Rank Wave' name overlaps with a defunct South Korean company and a separate active marketing site, creating identity-confusion risk.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Nov 3, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 3, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 3, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 3, 2026
07 · 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 rankwave.live a scam or is it safe?
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Is rankwave.live on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Nine-day-old 'Rank Wave' marketing site claims a London office but shows no verifiable operator identity
rankwave.live presents itself as a digital marketing agency, offering a 'Get a Free Quote' button and a 'Schedule a Free Call' prompt. The domain is only 9 days old, the page lists a generic London office address, and no operator postal address is visible on the captured page. The name overlaps with a defunct South Korean company and a separate active marketing site, which raises identity-confusion concerns. No malware or phishing detections were recorded, but the combination of a brand-new domain, unverifiable identity, and an unencrypted connection places this in the Moderate Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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