No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is sketchup.com legit or a scam?
Official SketchUp site owned by Trimble Inc. since 2000 with clean scans and established business registration.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual 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 website appears to be a legitimate, professionally designed software landing page for Trimble SketchUp with no visual indicators of scam or malicious intent.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProfessional branding for Trimble SketchUp with high-quality graphics
Standard navigation menu including Plans, Industries, and Resources
Functional cookie consent banner with links to Terms of Use and Privacy Notice
Presence of language selector, search icon, and shopping cart
Consistent design language and high-resolution architectural imagery
Intelligence
The domain sketchup.com is 26.5 years old and registered to Trimble Navigation through CSC Corporate Domains. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines. The page content matches legitimate marketing for Trimble SketchUp 3D modeling software with professional branding and navigation. Business records confirm Trimble Inc. is a publicly traded Delaware corporation that acquired SketchUp from Google in 2012. The only concerning signals are third-party phishing emails impersonating Trimble licensing, which forums explicitly warn users to ignore. No clone indicators, no malware distribution, and the hosting IP carries a zero abuse score.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for sketchup.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain sketchup.com registered January 18, 2000 (26+ years old); expires 2027; owned by Trimble Navigation / Trimble Inc. (US).
- Trimble Inc. is a Delaware public company (NASDAQ: TRMB) with SEC filings; acquired SketchUp from Google in 2012.
- Official site for Trimble SketchUp 3D modeling software; page title and description match legitimate product marketing.
- Multiple user reports of suspicious 'unauthorized license' emails from third parties (e.g., ruvixx.com) claiming to represent Trimble; forums advise ignoring as potential scams/phishing.
- Trustpilot for www.sketchup.com shows low rating (1.5/5 from 69 reviews); G2 and Capterra show ~4.5/5 from 1000+ reviews each.
- No evidence of domain being a typosquat or clone; redirects/related domains point to sketchup.trimble.com.
- Complaints center on aggressive third-party licensing enforcement emails and subscription model changes, not the core domain or software legitimacy.
- SketchUp Community Forumsopen
"I just received a very suspicious email from a generic consulting company saying they represent Trimble and that my company is using 6 unauthorized licenses."
- Reddit r/Sketchupopen
"This is 100% a phishing attack. Very common for scammer to claim copyright infringement. Do not follow up!"
- SketchUp Community Forumsopen
"I received this email titled “Unauthorized Use of SketchUp ” from the address trimblelicensinglatam@ruvixx.com."
- Software Adviceopen
"The fact there is a free version, which although limited compared with the paid version, it is a very powerful tool for early concept design for architecture or building development that can turn ideas into real."
- Capterraopen
"Based on 1,046 reviews... Overall rating 4.5"
- G2open
"1327 reviews... SketchUp helps architects and designers turn their ideas into reality with simple, powerful 3D modeling software."
Owned by Trimble Inc., a publicly traded Delaware corporation (NASDAQ: TRMB) originally incorporated in California in 1981, reincorporated in Delaware 2016. Domain registered to Trimble Navigation, CA, US since 2000-01-18 via CSC Corporate Domains.
Our research found three reports of suspicious licensing emails sent from addresses like trimblelicensinglatam@ruvixx.com. Forum users on sketchup.com and Reddit identify these as phishing attempts and advise ignoring them. Positive software reviews appear on Software Advice, Capterra (4.5/5 from 1,046 reviews), and G2 (1,327 reviews). Business records confirm Trimble Inc. ownership since the 2000 domain registration. Complaints center on third-party enforcement tactics and subscription changes rather than the core domain or software legitimacy.
Domain Timeline
- Jan 18, 2000Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 26 years old today.
- Jul 9, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
sketchup.com 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.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedContact 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 (1819808).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://sketchup.com/
- 2301https://sketchup.com/
- 3301https://www.sketchup.com/
- 4301https://sketchup.trimble.com/cross-domain
- 5200https://sketchup.trimble.com/encross-domain
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
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 sketchup.com and not a lookalike like s-ketchup.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
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
This is the official SketchUp website operated by Trimble Inc. The domain has been registered since 2000 and shows no malicious indicators.
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 sketchup.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- sketchup.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 94/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. sketchup.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, expiring in 105 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- sketchup.com is 26.5 years old, registered on 1/18/2000 through CSC Corporate Domains, 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 sketchup.com as clean.
- No. sketchup.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- sketchup.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, 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.
- Yes. sketchup.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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