No specific threat detected
Legitimate 17-year-old non-profit site with clean scans and verified 501(c)(3) registration.
Is thepixelproject.net legit or a scam?
Legitimate 17-year-old non-profit site with clean scans and verified 501(c)(3) registration.
This is the legitimate website of a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization focused on ending violence against women. The domain is 17 years old, carries no antivirus detections, and shows no scam indicators. No action needed.
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 website appears to be a legitimate, fully-rendered informational page for a non-profit organization with no visible indicators of malicious intent or scam patterns.
What our vision model saw
4 signalsThe page displays a professional, well-structured layout consistent with a non-profit organization website.
No deceptive urgency tactics, fake trust badges, or suspicious pop-ups are present.
The content is coherent and descriptive of the organization's mission.
The design elements, including navigation menus and call-to-action buttons, appear standard and functional.
Intelligence
The domain thepixelproject.net was registered in 2009 and has maintained continuous operation for over 17 years. Zero of 92 antivirus engines flagged the site, browser blocklists returned clean, and the hosting IP carries an abuse score of zero. The page content matches the mission of a volunteer-led charity, and the evidence package confirms active 501(c)(3) status in the United States. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators appear in any searched source. The combination of long domain history, clean technical signals, and independent verification of non-profit registration places the site firmly in the safe category.
Web Research Findings
Independent findings for thepixelproject.net, 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.
- The Pixel Project is a legitimate, volunteer-led 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to ending violence against women.
- The organization was founded in 2009 and operates primarily as a virtual entity using social media and the internet for advocacy and awareness.
- The domain is frequently cited in media and by authors/activists as a charitable organization, not a commercial or scam site.
- There is no evidence of the domain being involved in financial scams; mentions of 'scams' in search results refer to unrelated cryptocurrency 'Pixel' projects or general warnings about online fraud.
- The site provides resources, educational campaigns, and information for survivors and activists.
The Pixel Project is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for thepixelproject.net and didn't find scam reports or complaints. The evidence package confirms the domain belongs to a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with no history of fraudulent activity.
Domain Timeline
- May 21, 2009Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 17 years old today.
- Jul 23, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
thepixelproject.net 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 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://thepixelproject.net/
- 2301https://thepixelproject.net/
- 3200https://www.thepixelproject.net/
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 thepixelproject.net and not a lookalike like t-hepixelproject.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
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
This is the legitimate website of a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization focused on ending violence against women. The domain is 17 years old, carries no antivirus detections, and shows no scam indicators. No action needed.
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 thepixelproject.net, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, and the domain is 17.2 years old, registered on May 21, 2009 — 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.
- thepixelproject.net 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 thepixelproject.net), 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 thepixelproject.net 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 thepixelproject.net 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 — thepixelproject.net 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.
- thepixelproject.net is 17.2 years old, registered on May 21, 2009 through Name.com, Inc.. 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 — thepixelproject.net presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR2, valid for another 61 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".
- thepixelproject.net resolves to an IP operated by International Business Machines Corporation in US (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.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 23, 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 thepixelproject.net 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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