Is spongebob.com safe?
http://spongebob.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 91 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
spongebob.com redirects to Nickelodeon's official SpongeBob fan hub
spongebob.com is a long-registered legacy domain that sends visitors to the official SpongeBob SquarePants fan hub on nick.com. The page carries Viacom International Inc. (Paramount) copyright and trademark text, and security checks found no problems. The redirect is the brand owner's own, so we rate the site as safe.
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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 95/100
Safe covers scores 85–100. 1 finding pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- StrongThe page automatically sent the browser to an unrelated external site.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe domain redirects to Nickelodeon's official SpongeBob fan hub, which carries Viacom/Paramount ownership text.
- SupportsThe domain has been registered for almost 27 years.
- SupportsSafe Browsing, TLS and IP reputation checks were clean.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
spongebob.com is a long-registered legacy domain that sends visitors to the official SpongeBob SquarePants fan hub on nick.com. The page carries Viacom International Inc. (Paramount) copyright and trademark text, and security checks found no problems. The redirect is the brand owner's own, so we rate the site as safe.
Who runs it and where it leads
The browser was automatically sent from spongebob.com to https://www.nick.com/fan-hub/spongebob-squarepants. This looks unusual in isolation, but the destination page names Viacom International Inc. as owner of Nickelodeon and its characters. Research also describes spongebob.com as the show's former official website, since taken down.
The domain has been registered for roughly 27 years (9,982 days). The linked pages go to Paramount privacy, contact and legal policies, and to a TV ratings guideline site, with no commercial or monetized flows flagged.
Technical and operator risk
The browser threat feed reported no threat, the TLS connection was valid, and the hosting IP has no abuse reports. The operator is a major media company, and the cross-site links in the graph are policy and legal pages without commercial intent. The site's own contact details were not fully reviewed, but the identified owner is well established.
Why the score is 95
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/ 91
No detectionsSaved analysis from April 26, 2026 - stale
No detections across 59 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 32 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 91
All 91 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- 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 - Unrated
- CINS Army - Clean
- Cluster25 - Unrated
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Clean
- 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
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- 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
- Seclookup - Clean
- securolytics - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- 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
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerentertainment
- Googlemedia_and_entertainment
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
nickelodeon Spongebob SQUAREPANTS
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
nickelodeon Spongebob SQUAREPANTS
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
Nickelodeon SpongeBob SquarePants | Fan Favorites
- Meta description
Journey to Bikini Bottom for under-the-sea hijinks with SpongeBob SquarePants, his pet snail Gary, BFFs Patrick Star and Sandy Cheeks, and his Krusty Krab coworkers Squidward and Mr. Krabs.
Pages we read
- Main page/fan-hub/spongebob-squarepantsRead
- Terms/legal/ussoge/terms-of-useRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Nickelodeon SpongeBob SquarePants | Fan Favorites
What we observed
Saved browser evidence recorded cross domain landing.
What independent research found
1 external finding was saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
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 Nickelodeon's official SpongeBob fan hub, which carries Viacom/Paramount ownership text.
- 02The domain has been registered for almost 27 years.
- 03Safe Browsing, TLS and IP reputation checks were clean.
Web research findings
Independent findings for spongebob.com, 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.
- SpongePediaopen
"SpongeBob.com was the official website of the show SpongeBob SquarePants. It was made for the show’s 10th anniversary. The website had many clips from episodes, but had much less full episodes. It also containd playlists of episodes. The separate website has since been taken down, so whenever you type "SpongeBob.com," it redirects you to SpongeBob.Nick.com"
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.
- Domainspongebob.com
- Redirects towww.nick.com
- Hosted byAkamai Technologies, Inc.
- Referencesbtg.mtvnservices.com · cdn.cookielaw.org
Domain Timeline
- Jun 21, 1999Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 27 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 20, 2026Saved security review — Rated Safe
This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.
spongebob.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.
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 nick.com, the site this URL lands on. Certificate issued for mtvnservices.com.
A shared Akamai 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 www.nick.com, the site this URL lands on.
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://spongebob.com/
- 2200https://www.nick.com/fan-hub/spongebob-squarepantscross-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
- Antiviruspartial
- 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
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The page automatically sent the browser to an unrelated external site.
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 91 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Apr 26, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Independent research | 1 independent finding was saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 91 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Apr 26, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Independent research
- Result1 independent finding was saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 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
spongebob.com redirects to Nickelodeon's official SpongeBob fan hub
spongebob.com is a long-registered legacy domain that sends visitors to the official SpongeBob SquarePants fan hub on nick.com. The page carries Viacom International Inc. (Paramount) copyright and trademark text, and security checks found no problems. The redirect is the brand owner's own, so we rate the site as safe.
09 · Community
Community
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