No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is redgifs.com legit or a scam?
Long-running adult GIF site with zero malware detections and a registered business but mixed user reviews on moderation.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a major porn GIF platform with millions of explicit animations and videos. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned completely clean results with no flags. The domain is over six years old, owned by VERGIL LLC, and carries a valid SSL certificate. Independent review sites show conflicting opinions, with some noting poor moderation of uploaded content while others assign high trust scores. No phishing forms, malware, or scam infrastructure were detected in the scan.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for redgifs.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain redgifs.com registered October 2, 2019 (age ~6.6 years); owned by VERGIL LLC per Wikipedia
- Scamadviser assigns trust score 100/100 and concludes 'legit and safe'
- Trustpilot reviews include complaints about content moderation failures and site performance issues
- Scam Detector assigns low score of 16.7/100 citing 'suspicious' factors and 'High-Risk' tags
- Widely embedded on Reddit for NSFW content; multiple user reports of accidental visits raising malware concerns
- Official help site and terms of service exist; complies with regional age-verification laws (e.g., geo-blocking UK, US states)
- No detected typosquats or clones of major brands; competitors include other adult GIF/video sites
- Trustpilotopen
"they host child sexual explicit material... redgifs is a website where you can host animated videos as gifs their reporting system is terrible."
- Scam Detectoropen
"Is redgifs.com legit? Well, it's suspicious, as it received an overall low trust score based on our chart. ... The algorithm flagged its seemingly suspicious success... Controversial. High-Risk. Unsafe."
- Scamadviseropen
"We discovered mainly negative reviews for this site"
Owned by VERGIL LLC; domain registered 2019-10-02 via Amazon Registrar, Inc., expires 2026-10-02; WHOIS privacy protected via whoisproxy.com
Our research found three scam mentions and five complaints on independent review aggregator and review sites, primarily criticizing content moderation and the presence of explicit material. Scam Detector gave a low score while independent review aggregator assigned a 100/100 trust rating and called the site legit. Business records confirm ownership by VERGIL LLC since 2019.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
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.
- 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://redgifs.com/
- 2200https://www.redgifs.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
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 redgifs.com and not a lookalike like r-edgifs.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on redgifs.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- redgifs.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 79/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. redgifs.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 65 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- redgifs.com is 6.7 years old, registered on 10/2/2019 through Amazon Registrar, 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 redgifs.com as clean.
- No. redgifs.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- redgifs.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.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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