No specific threat detected
Established 1999 polling service with clean scans and registered German operator.
Is strawpoll.com legit or a scam?
Established 1999 polling service with clean scans and registered German operator.
Strawpoll.com is a legitimate polling platform operating since 1999. The domain shows clean antivirus results, a 27-year history, and a registered German business with no scam reports.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
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 screenshot shows a legitimate, functional landing page for the StrawPoll service.
What our vision model saw
2 signalsThe page displays a professional, fully-rendered interface for a polling service.
No suspicious elements, urgency tactics, or deceptive patterns are present.
Intelligence
The domain has operated continuously since January 1999 and is owned by a registered German company. Zero antivirus engines flagged the page and browser blocklists returned clean. The captured page shows a functional polling service with no deceptive patterns or credential forms. Independent evidence confirms the site is distinct from the defunct strawpoll.me and is widely used on Reddit and Twitch. The combination of age, infrastructure, and absence of complaints supports a safe verdict.
Web Research Findings
Independent findings for strawpoll.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.
- Strawpoll.com is a long-standing online polling platform established in 1999 and acquired by its current operators in 2017.
- The service is operated by a registered German company, Gregor Krambs Internet GmbH & Co. KG.
- The platform is widely used for informal, real-time polling and is frequently cited in online communities like Reddit and Twitch.
- The site provides free polling services funded by advertising, with optional paid subscriptions for advanced features.
- Security and privacy policies are publicly available, noting that IP addresses are encrypted and data is stored in Germany.
- While the site is legitimate, it is noted that poll results are not scientifically representative and can be subject to manipulation or botting by users.
Operated by Gregor Krambs Internet GmbH & Co. KG, based in Hamburg, Germany.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for strawpoll.com and didn't find scam reports or complaints. The evidence package confirms the site is operated by Gregor Krambs Internet GmbH & Co. KG, a registered German company, and is distinct from the now-defunct strawpoll.me.
Domain Timeline
- Jan 5, 1999Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 28 years old today.
- Jul 24, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
strawpoll.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 · referencedThe 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.
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 contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://strawpoll.com/
- 2200https://strawpoll.com/
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 strawpoll.com and not a lookalike like s-trawpoll.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
Strawpoll.com is a legitimate polling platform operating since 1999. The domain shows clean antivirus results, a 27-year history, and a registered German business with no scam reports.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, 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 strawpoll.com, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, it ranks among the world's most-visited sites, and the domain is 27.6 years old, registered on January 5, 1999 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
- strawpoll.com passed our automated checks with a trust score of 94/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
- Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from strawpoll.com), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from strawpoll.com is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
- No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report strawpoll.com as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
- No — strawpoll.com is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- strawpoll.com is 27.6 years old, registered on January 5, 1999 through Hetzner Online GmbH. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
- Yes — strawpoll.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE1, valid for another 48 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- strawpoll.com resolves to an IP operated by Hetzner Online GmbH in DE (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- Yes — strawpoll.com ranks in the global top 100,000 most-visited sites, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. Genuine popularity doesn't automatically make a site safe, but throwaway scam domains almost never reach this level of traffic, so it's a meaningful point in the site's favour.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 24, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about strawpoll.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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