No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is waze.com legit or a scam?
Official Waze navigation website with clean scans, 26-year domain history, and verified Google subsidiary status.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page content, title, and description match the well-known Waze driving app exactly. The domain is over 26 years old, registered through MarkMonitor with no privacy masking, which aligns with an established legitimate business. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned zero flags, and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. Evidence confirms Waze Mobile Ltd was founded in Israel in 2008 and acquired by Google in 2013. Positive reviews from independent sources further support legitimacy, with no scam reports or clone indicators present.
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 waze.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- waze.com is the official website for the Waze crowdsourced navigation app (page title and description match exactly)
- Waze founded in Israel in 2008 by Ehud Shabtai, Amir Shinar, and Uri Levine; acquired by Google June 2013 for approximately $1.3 billion
- No scam reports or fraud allegations found specifically targeting waze.com domain
- User reviews on Trustpilot and elsewhere focus on app routing issues (e.g., directing to restricted roads leading to fines) rather than site legitimacy
- Reddit discussions include isolated concerns about unsolicited Waze links but no widespread domain-related scams
- Historical research notes possible app spoofing/hacking for fake traffic reports (2014 studies), unrelated to the official domain
- Domain age 9558 days aligns with long-established legitimate service; no typosquat or clone indicators
Waze Mobile Ltd founded 2008 in Israel as FreeMap Israel; acquired by Google in 2013 for ~$1.3 billion and operates as subsidiary
Our research found no scam reports or complaints about waze.com. Two positive reviews were located from PCMag and ZDNet praising the app's routing features. Business records confirm Waze Mobile Ltd as an active Israeli company acquired by Google in 2013.
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://waze.com/
- 2301https://waze.com/
- 3200https://www.waze.com/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 waze.com and not a lookalike like w-aze.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 waze.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- waze.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 91/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. waze.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WR3, expiring in 71 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- waze.com is 26.2 years old, registered on 4/1/2000 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 waze.com as clean.
- No. waze.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- waze.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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