No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is sslip.io legit or a scam?
Legitimate wildcard DNS service sslip.io has operated for over ten years and appears in major vendor documentation despite past spam and phishing abuse by others.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page presents itself as the official site for nip.io and sslip.io, a DNS service that maps hostnames containing IP addresses back to those IPs. Our antivirus network returned only a single flag while browser blocklists stayed clean and the hosting IP shows minimal abuse history. Evidence confirms the project is open-source, has run for more than a decade, and receives over 10,000 queries per second with mentions in Google, IBM, Cisco, and Oracle documentation. Two GitHub reports note that spammers and phishers have misused the service, yet independent review sites still classify the domain as legitimate. The combination of long uptime, valid SSL, and professional informational content outweighs the isolated abuse incidents.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot 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
Clean, fully rendered informational page for the legitimate nip.io DNS service with professional layout and no scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for sslip.io, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- sslip.io and nip.io provide wildcard DNS service mapping hostnames with embedded IPs (e.g., 127-0-0-1.sslip.io → 127.0.0.1); operational >10 years, >10k queries/sec.
- Open-source Golang DNS server at github.com/cunnie/sslip.io; nip.io now hosted on sslip.io infrastructure.
- Used in dev tools/docs (Epinio, Dokku, Kubernetes examples) for local testing with valid SSL certs via Let's Encrypt HTTP-01.
- Past issues: 2015 Comodo cert revocation; recent spam/phishing abuse leading to Spamhaus DBL listing and DMARC measures.
- nip.io original creator Roopinder Singh deceased; service migrated to sslip.io (Brian Cunnie et al.).
- No evidence of domain being a typosquat or clone of major brands; legitimate wildcard DNS provider.
Our research found two GitHub reports describing misuse of sslip.io subdomains in phishing attempts and spam emails that led to temporary blocklist additions. Independent review sites state the domain itself is legitimate and safe. The project is maintained as open-source software with more than a decade of operation and no corporate registration details.
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 email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- Phone number listed (78-46-204-247).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 9 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://sslip.io/
- 2200https://sslip.io/
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 sslip.io and not a lookalike like s-slip.io.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 sslip.io. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- sslip.io passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 70/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. sslip.io presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 48 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged sslip.io as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. sslip.io is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- sslip.io resolves to an IP operated by Hetzner Online GmbH in DE (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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