Is steelcityrun.com legit or a scam?
Official site for the annual Steel City Run community event in Ballari with a four-year-old domain and zero scam indicators.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
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MT Intelligence
The page promotes a local running event called Steel City Run with clear details on race categories, dates, and organizers. Domain age of 1472 days and zero abuse reports on the hosting IP indicate established operation. No scam families or blocklist hits were recorded. Evidence package confirms the site matches real promotional activity on social media and running portals with no complaints found. The single Google impersonation flag appears to be a false positive given the unrelated event content.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for steelcityrun.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- steelcityrun.com is the official site for Steel City Run, an annual community running event in Ballari, Karnataka, India (5th edition scheduled for August 2026)
- Organized by Ballari Cyclists and Runners Foundation (BCRF/BCR); site includes event details, registration links to myraceindia.com, privacy policy, and past event info
- Promoted via Instagram (@steel_city_run), Facebook (BallariCyclistsRunners), and listed on indiarunning.com and bhaagoindia.com with sponsor mentions (e.g., JSW)
- No scam, fraud, complaint, or negative review mentions found across general web, Reddit, or targeted searches for 'scam'/'complaint'
- Domain referenced in multiple promotional posts for registrations (e.g., 16K/10K/5K/3K categories); event described as community fitness initiative running for multiple years
- No evidence of typosquatting or relation to major brands; appears as a legitimate local sports event site
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.
- Contact address uses a free-mail provider (gmail.com) — unusual for a real business.
- Page impersonates Google on a non-official domain.
- Phone number listed (+91 63609 56614).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 7 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://steelcityrun.com/
- 2301https://steelcityrun.com/
- 3200https://www.steelcityrun.com/cross-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 steelcityrun.com and not a lookalike like s-teelcityrun.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.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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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 steelcityrun.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- steelcityrun.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 81/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. steelcityrun.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 71 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- steelcityrun.com is 4.0 years old, registered on 5/25/2022 through HOSTINGER operations, UAB. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. steelcityrun.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- steelcityrun.com resolves to an IP operated by Brander Group 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 5, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around steelcityrun.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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