No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is ucdavis.edu legit or a scam?
Official UC Davis university homepage showing no malicious indicators or impersonation attempts.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page content directly matches the known UC Davis homepage with standard university navigation and contact details. Our antivirus network returned zero flags and browser blocklists show clean status. Business registration confirms it as an active public university in California. The hosting IP carries only a modest abuse score with no connection to known scam patterns. No scam reports or complaints appear in our research, and the domain is explicitly listed as the official campus site by the UC system.
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 ucdavis.edu, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- ucdavis.edu is the official website of the University of California, Davis (Wikipedia, UC system sites)
- Page title 'UC Davis | California's College Town' matches the live homepage at https://www.ucdavis.edu/
- No scam reports or complaints found directly targeting the domain ucdavis.edu itself
- Multiple Reddit threads discuss phishing/job scams that may spoof @ucdavis.edu addresses, but domain is legitimate
- Accredited public university with official social media accounts (@ucdavis on X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube)
- University of California system lists https://www.ucdavis.edu/ as the Davis campus site
- WSCUC accreditation page confirms One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 with URL https://www.ucdavis.edu
Public land-grant research university in Davis, California
Our research confirms ucdavis.edu as the official site of the University of California, Davis, a public land-grant research university with active accreditation and official social media presence. No scam reports or complaints were found targeting the domain itself.
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.
- Phone number listed (530-752-1011).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://ucdavis.edu/
- 2301https://ucdavis.edu/
- 3200https://www.ucdavis.edu/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 ucdavis.edu and not a lookalike like u-cdavis.edu.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 ucdavis.edu. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- ucdavis.edu passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 90/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. ucdavis.edu presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 30 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report ucdavis.edu as clean.
- No. ucdavis.edu is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- ucdavis.edu resolves to an IP operated by Pantheon 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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