No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is ustream.tv legit or a scam?
This looks safe to use.
Legitimate IBM enterprise video streaming service with 19.8-year-old domain and clean security record.
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 page appears to be a legitimate, fully-rendered corporate landing page for IBM Video Streaming with no visual indicators of a scam.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProfessional layout with high-quality imagery and consistent branding
Standard cookie consent banner with links to privacy statement and preferences
Functional navigation bar with 'Log in' and 'Sign up' options
Clear value proposition for IBM Video Streaming services
No visible urgency tactics, fake trust badges, or suspicious forms
Intelligence
The domain ustream.tv has been registered since October 2006 and is owned by International Business Machines Corporation. Our antivirus network returned zero detections from 92 engines and the hosting IP carries an abuse score of zero. The page renders as a professional corporate landing page with IBM branding, functional navigation, and no suspicious forms or urgency tactics. Independent sources confirm IBM acquired the service in 2016 for roughly $130 million and that major clients include NASA, Samsung, and Facebook. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators appear in our research.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for ustream.tv, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- The domain ustream.tv is a legitimate enterprise video streaming platform owned by IBM.
- Acquired by IBM in January 2016 for approximately $130 million and integrated into the IBM Cloud Video (now IBM Watson Media) unit.
- The domain has been registered since 2006 and has a long-standing reputation in the live-streaming industry.
- Major clients include NASA, Samsung, Facebook, and Nike for corporate and public broadcasts.
- Security audits and WHOIS data confirm the registrant is International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
- Scrutiny Deskopen
"We rate Ustream Safe for everyday use within the News & Media category. The headline safety score is 9.0 / 10... Yes. Ustream is a legitimate operator."
- Streaming Mediaopen
"Ustream is the platform of choice for live and on-demand business video for organizations like Facebook, Discovery Channel, Sony, NASA, and Samsung."
Owned by International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) since 2016.
Our research located two positive references to ustream.tv. An industry publication describes Ustream as the platform of choice for organizations including Facebook, Discovery Channel, Sony, NASA, and Samsung. A separate safety audit rates the service 9.0/10 within the News & Media category and explicitly states it is a legitimate operator. Business registration records confirm active ownership by International Business Machines Corporation in the United States since the 2016 acquisition. No scam reports, consumer complaints, or negative mentions were found across the sources searched.
Domain Timeline
- Oct 11, 2006Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 20 years old today.
- Jul 13, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
ustream.tv 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.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://ustream.tv/
- 2308http://www.ustream.tv/
- 3200https://video.ibm.com/cross-domain
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 ustream.tv and not a lookalike like u-stream.tv.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
Ustream.tv is the legitimate IBM Video Streaming platform. The domain is 19.8 years old, owned by IBM since 2016, and shows zero malicious detections across our antivirus network and blocklists.
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 ustream.tv, 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 19.8 years old, registered on October 11, 2006 — 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.
- ustream.tv 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 ustream.tv), 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 ustream.tv 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 ustream.tv 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 — ustream.tv 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.
- ustream.tv is 19.8 years old, registered on October 11, 2006 through CSC Corporate Domains, 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 — ustream.tv presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · DigiCert EV RSA CA G2, valid for another 27 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".
- ustream.tv resolves to an IP operated by IBM Cloud 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.
- Yes — ustream.tv 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 13, 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 ustream.tv 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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