Is screenrant.com legit or a scam?
ScreenRant is a legitimate entertainment news site established in 2003 with a massive global audience and verified corporate ownership.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
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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 page displays the visual characteristics of a legitimate entertainment news website with professional design, consistent branding, and no identified scam patterns.
What our vision model saw
6 signalsProfessional layout consistent with a legitimate entertainment news publication
High-quality, relevant imagery for featured articles
Standard navigation bar with functional categories like Exclusives and SR Database
Presence of a legitimate 'Sign In' button and user interface elements
No visible countdown timers, fake trust badges, or intrusive pop-ups
Content matches the established Screen Rant branding and logo
MT Intelligence
The domain has been active for over 20 years and is a well-known fixture in the digital media landscape. Our analysis confirms it is owned by Valnet Inc., a major Canadian media company with a verifiable physical headquarters and business registration. Technical scans show no malicious code or phishing patterns across its infrastructure. Although some readers complain about the quality of its reporting or 'clickbait' tactics on independent review sites, these are editorial grievances rather than security threats. The site maintains a high traffic rank and is recognized as a legitimate business entity.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for screenrant.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain screenrant.com registered December 9, 2003 via GoDaddy.com, LLC; age matches provided 8244 days (~22.5 years).
- Owned by Valnet Inc. since February 2015 acquisition; Valnet is a Canadian digital media company founded 2012 in Montreal, Quebec, also owns Collider, CBR, Game Rant, etc.
- Trustpilot rating 1.4/5 based on 126 reviews, with complaints focused on clickbait and speculative content.
- Wikipedia confirms launch November 13, 2003 by Vic Holtreman; active status, YouTube channel with 8.43M subscribers.
- Multiple class action lawsuits against Valnet Inc. regarding misclassification of content creators as independent contractors (e.g., Quintiliano v. Valnet, 2024) and privacy claims (pen register suit, 2026).
- Contact: info@screenrant.com; legal@valnetinc.com; physical address references Ogden, UT and Montreal, QC.
- No scam reports linking the domain to fraud, phishing, or malware; criticisms center on journalistic practices and labor issues at parent company.
- Trustpilotopen
"Speculative clickbait, pretending to have scoops on hotly anticipated movies/series, then you find out it's just baseless guessing or old news."
- Redditopen
"Screenrant are absolutely not reliable by themselves, they just post poorly written clickbait."
- Facebookopen
"I recently blocked them due to false info. They don't put out actual facts till after reliable media outlets drop info."
- Valnet Inc.open
"Over the years, ScreenRant has gained a reputation among the most trusted sources of entertainment news and analysis, reaching billions of readers worldwide."
- Valnet Inc.open
"ScreenRant has been an exceptional partner in delivering top-notch film content. Their dedication to providing accurate and engaging coverage has made them a trustworthy source."
Valnet Inc. (parent company), incorporated under Canadian law, headquartered at 7405 Transcanada Highway, Suite 100, Saint-Laurent, Quebec H4T 1Z2; Business Number 847841244, Registry ID 8278539. Screen Rant acquired by Valnet in 2015.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Technical checksdomain · encryption · redirects · server reputation
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 (1999999805).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://screenrant.com/
- 2200https://screenrant.com/
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 screenrant.com and not a lookalike like s-creenrant.com.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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on screenrant.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- screenrant.com 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. screenrant.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE1, expiring in 66 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- screenrant.com is 22.6 years old, registered on 12/8/2003 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. 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 screenrant.com as clean.
- No. screenrant.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- screenrant.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Technologies Inc. in US (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.
- Yes. screenrant.com sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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