Is vimeocdn.com legit or a scam?
Official Vimeo content delivery network with a 16-year history and zero security flags across our antivirus network.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
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
The page displays a technical XML error indicating a missing resource; visual cues are neutral and insufficient for a risk assessment.
What our vision model saw
1 signalPage renders a raw XML error message
MT Intelligence
This domain is a core part of Vimeo's technical operations. It has been registered for over 16 years and is managed by a reputable corporate registrar. Our analysis shows it is used exclusively for hosting video assets, player scripts, and image thumbnails. Because it is a technical backend, visiting the root domain often shows a raw XML error message, which is normal for a content server not intended for direct human browsing. All security signals are clean, and it is widely whitelisted by corporate networks for video playback.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for vimeocdn.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- vimeocdn.com is officially associated with Vimeo as its primary CDN domain for video hosting, thumbnails (i.vimeocdn.com), player assets (f.vimeocdn.com), and progressive/adaptive streaming.
- Multiple official Vimeo help articles instruct users and networks to whitelist *.vimeocdn.com for proper video playback and live streaming.
- Technical analyses (Netify, BuiltWith, developer docs) confirm it delivers content for Vimeo via Fastly, Akamai, and other edge networks; high-traffic legitimate use across thousands of sites.
- No scam reports, phishing complaints, or malware detections specifically targeting vimeocdn.com; phishing campaigns impersonate Vimeo via email but do not use this domain.
- desenmascara.me analysis of i.vimeocdn.com (subdomain) rates it legitimate with 0/100 risk, high Tranco ranking, no fraud signals, and detected brand Vimeo.
- Domain age of ~5903 days (~16 years) aligns with long-established Vimeo infrastructure; no negative reviews on major scam-checker sites.
- Vimeo, Inc. is a registered US company (New York); vimeocdn.com serves as its official video delivery network, not a third-party or suspicious entity.
- Netifyopen
"The vimeocdn.com domain is associated with Vimeo."
- desenmascara.meopen
"i.vimeocdn.com is a high-traffic website (ranked #3,339 globally on the Tranco list). No fraud signals, brand impersonation, or suspicious activity were detected. Heuristic analysis confirms this is a legitimate site."
- Vimeo Helpopen
"whitelist: *.vimeo.com; *.vimeocdn.com; *.akamaized.net"
Official CDN domain of Vimeo, Inc. (New York, NY); used for video streaming, thumbnails, and progressive delivery via Fastly and Akamai
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
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 vimeocdn.com and not a lookalike like v-imeocdn.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.
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 vimeocdn.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- vimeocdn.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 97/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. vimeocdn.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign Atlas R3 DV TLS CA 2025 Q3, expiring in 70 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- vimeocdn.com is 16.2 years old, registered on 4/21/2010 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 vimeocdn.com as clean.
- No. vimeocdn.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- vimeocdn.com resolves to an IP operated by Fastly, Inc. 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.
- Yes. vimeocdn.com sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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