No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is sex.com legit or a scam?
Historic adult video site with clean scans and high traffic but mixed payout reviews on independent review aggregator.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page serves free porn videos and movies under the sex.com brand. Technical checks returned zero malware detections and a clean hosting IP. The domain has documented ownership history dating back decades and sold for millions, confirming it is the original site rather than a clone. Evidence shows two negative independent review aggregator entries about model payouts alongside two positive reviews. UK company records list dissolved entities tied to the name. No phishing, malware, or scam-family patterns 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 sex.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - Domain sex.com has extensive historical records including legal disputes over ownership (Gary Kremen vs Stephen Cohen) and sales for $13M+ in 2010/2006.
- - Scamadviser rates sex.com as 'Very Likely Safe' with valid SSL, high traffic ranking (Tranco 180), though notes negative reviews detected.
- - Scamy.io analysis concludes the domain 'appears to be safe' and 'legitimate' as an adult content platform with official contact pages.
- - UK company records exist for SEX.COM LIMITED (dissolved status per Companies House filings).
- - Trustpilot shows mixed user reviews including complaints about model payouts and positive comments like 'Great site'.
- - No evidence of the site being a typosquat or clone of another brand; it is the primary domain for this adult video platform.
- - General search results predominantly discuss unrelated sextortion scams rather than issues with sex.com itself.
SEX.COM LIMITED and SEX. COM LIMITED listed in Companies House records; one or both dissolved.
independent review aggregator shows two complaints about non-payment to models once payout thresholds are reached. Two positive reviews describe the site as 'Great' and 'Amazing'. independent review aggregator notes negative reviews but rates the site 'Very Likely Safe' with high traffic. UK Companies House records list dissolved entities for SEX.COM LIMITED. No evidence of phishing or malware tied to the domain itself.
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 (24509-537).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://sex.com/
- 2301https://www.sex.com/cross-domain
- 3200https://www.sex.com/encross-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 sex.com and not a lookalike like s-ex.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.
- 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 sex.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- sex.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 75/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. sex.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 70 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report sex.com as clean.
- No. sex.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- sex.com resolves to an IP operated by UpCloud Chicago 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.
- 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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