No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is runescape.wiki legit or a scam?
Official community-run RuneScape encyclopedia with 89k articles, clean security scans, and eight-year domain history.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as the official RuneScape encyclopedia written by players since 2005 and matches that description exactly in content and layout. No antivirus engines or browser blocklists flagged it, the hosting IP shows zero abuse reports, and the domain is over eight years old. Our research found two positive mentions on community sites and zero scam or complaint reports. The page renders as a fully functional wiki with standard navigation and no login forms or suspicious elements. These signals together confirm it is the legitimate reference site used by RuneScape players.
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
This is the fully rendered, legitimate RuneScape Wiki with standard wiki layout, navigation, and content. No scam indicators of any kind are present.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for runescape.wiki, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain runescape.wiki hosts the official RuneScape Wiki, established 2005, with 89,614 articles as of recent crawl.
- Self-describes as 'the official RuneScape encyclopaedia, written and maintained by the players' and endorsed/supported by Jagex.
- Separate but related site oldschool.runescape.wiki for Old School RuneScape.
- Moved from Fandom/Wikia to independent hosting around 2018; Jagex assists with infrastructure costs.
- No scam, malware, or phishing reports tied to the domain in search results.
- Community praise on Reddit and Hacker News for accuracy and quality; used as primary reference by players.
- Wiki itself documents in-game scams but has no association with fraudulent activity.
- Redditopen
"The RS Wiki is officially endorsed and supported by Jagex, but the team that manages it are not Jagex employees. It's a community-run wiki"
- Hacker Newsopen
"The Runescape wiki is simply amazing. It's one of the most well built fit for purpose pieces of quality software+content that I have ever come across."
Our research found no scam reports or complaints. Two positive reviews on Reddit and Hacker News describe the site as the official community encyclopedia for RuneScape, accurate and well-maintained, with support from the game developer Jagex.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (36785608).
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://runescape.wiki/
- 2200https://runescape.wiki/
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 runescape.wiki and not a lookalike like r-unescape.wiki.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.
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 runescape.wiki. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- runescape.wiki passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. runescape.wiki presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 64 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- runescape.wiki is 8.3 years old, registered on 2/7/2018 through Cloudflare, 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 runescape.wiki as clean.
- No. runescape.wiki is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- runescape.wiki 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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