Is t0x.net legit or a scam?
A 27-year-old hobbyist domain hosting a vintage BBS and personal technical projects with no history of fraud.
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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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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
MT Intelligence
The domain was registered in 1999, making it exceptionally old and stable. Our research confirms it is used by a hobbyist in France to host a Telnet-accessible 'Deadline BBS' and various IPv6 testing subdomains. There are zero reports of phishing, malware, or scam activity across our antivirus network and major blocklists. While the web landing page is nearly empty, this is consistent with a private technical site rather than a fraudulent storefront. The long history and lack of commercial intent suggest it is a benign personal asset.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for t0x.net, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered approximately 27 years ago (around 1999, matching the provided 9924-day age as of ~2026).
- Hosts a Telnet-accessible BBS called "Deadline BBS" running PCBoard software at t0x.net:1337, located in Mantes-la-Jolie, France (active as of 2026 per telnetbbsguide.com).
- Subdomains such as muscaria.t0x.net, agaric.t0x.net, and shiitake.t0x.net are used for IPv6 testing (ipv6-test.com) and personal servers hosted on OVH infrastructure in France.
- Domain and subdomains appear in multiple Hybrid-Analysis (Falcon Sandbox) malware reports as nameserver (NS1.t0x.net, NS5.HE.NET etc.) or creation-date artifacts; no direct malicious hosting confirmed for t0x.net itself.
- No scam reports, fraud complaints, phishing listings, or negative reviews found on Reddit, Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, VirusTotal, or general web searches.
- http://home.t0x.net/ returns no retrievable content; appears to be a low-profile personal or hobbyist domain with long history and no commercial presence.
- No business entity, registrant name, or formal organization publicly tied to the domain beyond hobbyist BBS and IPv6 testing activity.
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 contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
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 t0x.net and not a lookalike like t-0x.net.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.
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 t0x.net. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- t0x.net passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 84/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- t0x.net is 27.2 years old, registered on 4/28/1999 through Gandi SAS. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report t0x.net as clean.
- No. t0x.net is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- t0x.net resolves to an IP operated by Free SAS in FR (usage type: Fixed Line ISP). 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 30, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around t0x.net 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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