No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is rule34.us legit or a scam?
Established Rule 34 adult imageboard with clean scans, 2020 domain registration, and millions of monthly visits.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site runs as a Gelbooru-powered adult image board focused on Rule 34 content. Strong legitimacy signals include a domain first registered in 2020 with renewal through 2033 and listed US business ownership. Our antivirus and blocklist checks returned clean, the hosting IP shows zero abuse reports, and traffic ranks place it among popular sites. No scam patterns, login forms, or malicious redirects appear in the scan. The only minor note is missing contact details, which is common for this type of adult platform.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot 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.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows a fully rendered Gelbooru-style image board with no scam patterns visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for rule34.us, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Adult Rule 34 image/video site running Gelbooru Beta 0.1.11, serving 12,854,888+ posts
- High traffic: 15.64M visits in April 2026 (Semrush), global rank ~3,065
- Domain registered June 15, 2020 via Cloudflare; long-term renewal to 2033
- Scamadviser: popular (Tranco rank 180), valid SSL, old domain; 'very likely not a scam but legit'
- Reddit threads discuss site safety (e.g., 'Turn off JavaScript... porn image sites'); no widespread scam reports
- WHOIS owner: Benjamin Hopson II / Gelcom / ABW Media, support@gelbooru.com; US address listed
- Competitors: rule34video.com, gelbooru.com, rule34.paheal.net, e621.net
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, rule34.us is very likely not a scam but legit and reliable."
WHOIS lists owner Benjamin Hopson II, organisation Gelcom / ABW Media, address in Janesville Wisconsin; domain registered 2020-06-15, renews 2033-06-15
Our research found no scam reports or complaints. Independent review sites rate the site as legitimate, business registration records confirm an active US entity, and the domain has been registered since 2020 with renewal through 2033. Reddit discussions focus on normal adult-site usage tips with no widespread fraud claims.
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://rule34.us/
- 2200https://rule34.us/
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 rule34.us and not a lookalike like r-ule34.us.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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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 rule34.us. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- rule34.us passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 87/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. rule34.us presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 48 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. rule34.us is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- rule34.us 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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