Our automated security review found no threat indicators on spot.im. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.

Is spot.im safe to use?

spot.im passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.

Does spot.im have a valid SSL certificate?

Yes. spot.im presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 90 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.

Has spot.im been flagged by antivirus engines?

No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report spot.im as clean.

Is spot.im on any phishing or malware blacklists?

No. spot.im is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.

Where is spot.im hosted?

spot.im 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.

Is spot.im a well-known website?

Yes. spot.im 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.

How often is the spot.im report updated?

This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 15, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around spot.im have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Security Review

Is spot.im legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 92/100

SafeSuspiciousDangerous

Spot.IM (now OpenWeb) is an established comment-moderation platform serving major publishers, with clean security scans and verified business registration in Israel.

Why we trust it

Verified active business registration in Israel with full company details and founding history.Significant venture funding history ($170M+ total, including $25M Series D in 2019) from reputable investors.Serves major publishers including TechCrunch, MarketWatch, Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, and Fox News.

spot.imScanned 2h ago

Post Facebook

Trust score

SAFE

Heuristics 100·MT 88

Warning signals (1)

Redirects to another domain

Positive signals (4)

Antivirus clear Not on major blacklists Encrypted connection Clean server reputation

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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence

0/92

All engines report clean

Domain Age

—

Registration date unknown

MT Intelligence

Safe

Low likelihood · 95% confidence

SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

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LIVE RENDER

spot.im

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence

MT Security Analyst

Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust88/100

MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection

Confidence

Spot.IM is the original product name of OpenWeb Technologies Ltd, an Israeli company founded around 2012–2015 by Nadav Shoval and Ishay Green. The company rebranded to OpenWeb in 2020 but continues to operate the Spot.IM moderation platform. Our antivirus network flagged zero detections across 92 engines, the hosting IP has zero abuse reports, and SSL is valid. Business registration confirms the company is active in Israel with a history of significant venture funding ($170M+ total, including $25M Series D in 2019) from reputable investors. The platform serves major publishers including TechCrunch, MarketWatch, Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, and Fox News, with reported reach of 150M monthly active users. Web research found no scam reports, complaints, or fraud allegations; instead, independent sources confirm the company's legitimacy and market position.

Full dossier

Analysis complete

Page Content

Spot.IM is a comment-moderation and community-engagement platform operated by OpenWeb Technologies Ltd. The domain now redirects to or is referenced as part of the OpenWeb ecosystem, which provides moderation tools, social features, and publisher analytics for major media outlets.

Infrastructure

Hosting IP 18.173.132.21 (Amazon) has zero abuse reports and a clean reputation score. SSL certificate is valid and issued by Amazon, with 90 days remaining. No malware or phishing detections across our antivirus network (0/92 engines flagged).

Domain History

Spot.IM was registered as the product name of OpenWeb Technologies Ltd, founded in 2012–2015. The company rebranded to OpenWeb in 2020 but continues operating Spot.IM as a moderation platform. The domain ranks in the global top-100k by traffic, reflecting its use by major publishers.

Web Reputation

Business registration confirms OpenWeb Technologies Ltd is an active private limited company in Israel (registration 514745983, Tel Aviv). The company has raised multiple funding rounds from established venture investors including Insight Partners and Index Ventures. No scam reports, complaints, or fraud allegations found across web searches, consumer-review sites, or news sources.

Positive Signals

Verified active business registration in Israel with full company details and founding history.
Significant venture funding history ($170M+ total, including $25M Series D in 2019) from reputable investors.
Serves major publishers including TechCrunch, MarketWatch, Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, and Fox News.
Zero detections across 92 antivirus engines and zero abuse reports on hosting IP.
Valid SSL certificate and clean browser blocklists.

AI Recommendation

Spot.IM is a legitimate business platform. If you are a publisher or user interacting with this service, it is safe to proceed. If you have concerns about a specific transaction or account, contact OpenWeb's support directly through their official website.

Next-gen fraud intelligence

Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for spot.im, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration

Active · Israel

Site traces back to an actively registered business.

Clone check

Not a clone

No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.

Typosquat check

No look-alike match

The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.

Web mentions

3 positive

Key findings

7 headline facts from open-web research

spot.im is the former domain and product name of OpenWeb (OpenWeb Technologies Ltd), an Israeli company founded around 2012-2015 by Nadav Shoval and Ishay Green, providing comment moderation, community, and social engagement tools for publi
The company rebranded from Spot.IM to OpenWeb in 2020; Spot.IM is now referenced as their moderation platform on openweb.com.
OpenWeb serves major publishers including TechCrunch, MarketWatch, Huffington Post, Salon, Rolling Stone, and Fox News; claims 5.5B user minutes, 150M monthly active users, and 5000+ publishers.
Raised significant funding, including $13M Series A (2016) and $25M Series D (2019) from investors like Insight Partners, Index Ventures, and others; total funding near $170M per some reports.
Registered as active private limited company in Israel (Open Web Technologies Ltd, reg. 514745983) with address in Tel Aviv; also has US and UK entities.
Trustpilot page for spot.im exists with 17 reviews but no specific scam or fraud reports found across web searches, Reddit, or news.
Some subdomains (e.g. sync.spotim.market, traffic.spot.im) appear in historical malware analysis reports as trackers or in malicious contexts, but the main domain and company show no direct scam associations.

Positive reviews (3)

Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.

OpenWeb.comopen
"Our moderating platform Spot.IM makes sure all comments are within our editorial policy."
Wikipediaopen
"The company was founded in 2015 as Spot.IM by Israeli software architects Nadav Shoval and Ishay Green."
PR Newswireopen
"Spot.IM is Now OpenWeb. OpenWeb (formerly Spot.IM) is on a mission to democratize and improve conversations online."

Business registration

Status: active · Israel

OpenWeb Technologies Ltd (formerly Spot.IM Ltd), registration number 514745983, based in Tel Aviv. Founded 2012/2015, raised multiple funding rounds including $25M in 2019.

Research summary

Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

Web research confirmed Spot.IM as the original product name of OpenWeb Technologies Ltd, an Israeli company founded in 2012–2015 by Nadav Shoval and Ishay Green. The company rebranded to OpenWeb in 2020 but continues operating Spot.IM as a moderation platform. Multiple credible sources (OpenWeb.com, Wikipedia, PR Newswire) document the company's history, funding rounds ($170M+ total, including $25M Series D in 2019), and client base of major publishers including TechCrunch, MarketWatch, Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, and Fox News. Business registration confirms OpenWeb Technologies Ltd is an active private limited company in Israel (registration 514745983). No scam reports, complaints, or fraud allegations were found across web searches, consumer-review sites, or news sources.

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified

Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious60Harmless92Engines

Clean

Kaspersky

Clean

Bitdefender

Clean

Microsoft

Not in pass

ESET-NOD32

Not in pass

Avira

Not in pass

Sophos

Clean

Fortinet

Clean

Google Safebrowsing

Clean

Emsisoft

Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check

Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate

StatusValid

ProtocolTLSv1.3

IssuerAmazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04

ExpiresSep 14, 2026 (90d)

Self-signedNo

Hosting & Technology

HostingAmazon.com, Inc.

Server locationUS

PopularityTop 100k worldwide

Redirect Chain

Hops

Cross-domain

Yes

Lookalike

Punycode

1301http://spot.im/
2404https://www.spot.im/index.htmlcross-domain

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence

Confidence score0%

Reports on file0

ISPAmazon.com, Inc.

Usage typeContent Delivery Network

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 spot.im and not a lookalike like s-pot.im.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.
Discuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing

Not listedCheck ↗

VirusTotal

Not listedCheck ↗

AbuseIPDB

Not listedCheck ↗

Also verify:Spamhaus ↗DNSBL / SURBL ↗PhishTank ↗

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 spot.im. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
spot.im passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
Yes. spot.im presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 90 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report spot.im as clean.
No. spot.im is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
spot.im 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. spot.im 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.
This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 15, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around spot.im have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

Trust / 100

Final Verdict·spot.im

SAFE

Spot.IM is the former brand of OpenWeb, a legitimate Israeli comment-moderation and community platform founded in 2012 and now serving major publishers. The domain is clean across all security scans, has valid SSL, and the company maintains active business registration with significant funding history.

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