Is sesame.org safe?
http://sesame.org/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Sesame Workshop's official nonprofit site redirects to its main domain and shows no scam or malware indicators.
sesame.org is the official domain of Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street. The site serves as a hub for educational resources, parenting support, and organizational information. It redirects visitors to sesameworkshop.org, the organization's primary content domain. Technical checks are clean, and the only commercial element is a standard nonprofit donation button. No scam, phishing, or malware mechanics were observed.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 92/100
Safe covers scores 85–100. No adverse finding was saved; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
No adverse finding was saved with this report.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsNo malware, phishing, or other technical threats were detected by multiple security services.
- SupportsThe site is the official domain of Sesame Workshop, a well-known nonprofit educational organization.
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 10918 days old
Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
sesame.org is the official domain of Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street. The site serves as a hub for educational resources, parenting support, and organizational information. It redirects visitors to sesameworkshop.org, the organization's primary content domain. Technical checks are clean, and the only commercial element is a standard nonprofit donation button. No scam, phishing, or malware mechanics were observed.
Official Nonprofit Identity and Cross-Domain Redirect
The scanned address sesame.org redirects to sesameworkshop.org, which is the primary domain for Sesame Workshop's content. This is a standard consolidation move by a well-known nonprofit, not a deceptive redirect. The page content includes references to 'Sesame Workshop' and 'Helping Children Grow', confirming the organization's identity.
The domain is over 10,000 days old, indicating long-standing registration. The site's own pages include links to leadership, partners, press releases, and resources, all consistent with a legitimate educational organization.
Clean Technical Checks and Standard Nonprofit Donation Flow
Security scans show no threats: zero malicious or suspicious detections across 93 engines, no browser threat feed warnings, and a valid TLS certificate. These technical indicators support the site's legitimacy.
The only commercial call-to-action is a 'Donate' button, which is typical for a nonprofit organization. There are no affiliate relationships, no cross-domain commercial CTAs, and no subscription traps or deceptive payment flows.
Why the score is 92
The saved checks and analysis found no material threat. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 59 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 34 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiEducation
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekereducational institutions
- Googlecivil_society_and_npo
- Sophosngos and non profits
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
Helping Children Grow
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Helping Children Grow
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Parenting Resources, Activities, & Early Childhood Development Support- Sesame Workshop
- Meta description
We’re the global nonprofit behind Sesame Street, harnessing the power of education, media, and research, reaching families in 190 countries so every child can grow up with the skills to thrive.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/about-us/Read
- Terms/about-us/legal/terms-of-use/Read
- Contact page/about-us/contact-us/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Parenting Resources, Activities, & Early Childhood Development Support- Sesame Workshop
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The domain redirects to sesameworkshop.org, the organization's primary content domain.
- 02The registrable domain is 10918 days old
- 03No malware, phishing, or other technical threats were detected by multiple security services.
Web research findings
Independent findings for sesame.org, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for sesame.org. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainsesame.org
- Redirects tosesameworkshop.org
- Hosted byPantheon
- Referencescmp.osano.com · google.com
Domain Timeline
- Dec 6, 1996Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 29 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 28, 2026Saved security review — Rated Safe
This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.
sesame.org has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
Domain & Encryption
This is the certificate of sesameworkshop.org, the site this URL lands on. Certificate issued for sesameworkshop.com.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it. This is the address of sesameworkshop.org, the site this URL lands on.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://sesame.org/
- 2301https://sesame.org/
- 3301https://www.sesameworkshop.org/cross-domain
- 4206https://sesameworkshop.org/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Oct 27, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 28, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 28, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 28, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 28, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 27, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Sesame Workshop's official nonprofit site redirects to its main domain and shows no scam or malware indicators.
sesame.org is the official domain of Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street. The site serves as a hub for educational resources, parenting support, and organizational information. It redirects visitors to sesameworkshop.org, the organization's primary content domain. Technical checks are clean, and the only commercial element is a standard nonprofit donation button. No scam, phishing, or malware mechanics were observed.
09 · Community
Community
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