No threats detected
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Is sakura.ne.jp legit or a scam?
Official Sakura Internet rental server site run by a publicly listed Japanese company operating since 1996.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page promotes Sakura Rental Server with standard hosting features, pricing, and support details. Business records confirm SAKURA Internet Inc. as an active public company founded in 1996 with headquarters in Osaka. Positive reviews on independent hosting sites highlight reliable uptime and support. Isolated spam reports on spam.org trace to customer subdomains, not the core service. No malware detections, blocklist hits, or clone indicators appear 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 sakura.ne.jp, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- sakura.ne.jp is the primary domain for さくらのレンタルサーバ (Sakura Rental Server) operated by Sakura Internet Inc.
- Company is a long-established Japanese hosting provider (since 1996/1999), publicly listed on TSE Prime Market (3778).
- WHOIS shows registration 2017/07/21, organization SAKURA Internet Inc., email @sakura.ad.jp.
- Multiple positive user reviews on hosting review sites citing good uptime, support, and cost-performance.
- Isolated spam/phishing complaints on spam.org involving subdomains (e.g., izunoumi.sakura.ne.jp) used for phishing emails.
- No evidence of typosquatting famous brands; domain is the legitimate corporate site.
- Wikipedia and company sites confirm it as a major Japanese data center and hosting operator.
SAKURA internet Inc., public company listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange (code 3778), founded Dec 1996/incorporated Aug 1999, HQ Osaka, ~1000 employees
spam.org lists two complaints about phishing emails and unsubscribed messages sent from subdomains under sakura.ne.jp. hostings.info and itreview.jp each carry one positive review praising uptime and support. Company records confirm SAKURA Internet Inc. as a Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed firm founded in 1996.
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.
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://sakura.ne.jp/
- 2301https://www.sakura.ne.jp/cross-domain
- 3200https://rs.sakura.ad.jp/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 sakura.ne.jp and not a lookalike like s-akura.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.
Referenced Domains
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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 sakura.ne.jp. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- sakura.ne.jp passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 84/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. sakura.ne.jp presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. · JPRS Domain Validation Authority - G4, expiring in 116 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. sakura.ne.jp is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- sakura.ne.jp resolves to an IP operated by SAKURA Internet 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.
- 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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