No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is tenor.com legit or a scam?
Official Tenor GIF platform owned by Google with a 30-year-old domain and zero malware detections across our engines.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as the well-known Tenor GIF service with matching title, description, and content focused on animated images. Our antivirus network returned zero flags and browser blocklists show it as clean. The domain age of over 30 years plus documented acquisition by Google in 2018 provide strong legitimacy signals. A small number of independent review aggregator complaints mention user-uploaded crypto scam GIFs, but these do not indicate the platform itself is malicious. Overall traffic and app-store ratings further support that this is a legitimate service rather than a fraudulent site.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for tenor.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain tenor.com registered for 11263 days (over 30 years).
- Acquired by Google on March 27, 2018 per official blog and TechCrunch.
- Scamadviser trust score indicates very likely safe with high Tranco ranking and valid SSL.
- Trustpilot rating 2.4/5 from 16 reviews citing content moderation issues including crypto scam GIFs.
- Powers GIF keyboards and search for Discord, Facebook Messenger, Twitter and others.
- Wikipedia and Google Developers confirm ownership by Google; no malware reports tied to the domain itself.
- App Store rating 4.6/5 from 39K ratings.
- Trustpilotopen
"BUT lately, there’s been an explosion of crypto scam GIFs, especially promoting “metaversx” from @blazzordnft."
Owned by Google since March 2018; address listed as Amphitheatre Parkway 1600, Mountain View, CA 94043
Our research found one independent review aggregator complaint about crypto scam GIFs appearing in search results. Two positive sources confirm the site is legitimate, including independent review aggregator stating it is safe and the Apple App Store showing strong user ratings. Business records confirm Google ownership since 2018 with an active US registration.
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
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://tenor.com/
- 2200https://tenor.com/
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 tenor.com and not a lookalike like t-enor.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
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 tenor.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- tenor.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 89/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. tenor.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WR3, expiring in 79 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- tenor.com is 30.9 years old, registered on 7/30/1995 through MarkMonitor Inc.. 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 tenor.com as clean.
- No. tenor.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- tenor.com resolves to an IP operated by Google LLC 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.
- 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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