Is wetriedtls.com legit or a scam?
A well-established web novel translation site with a 900-day history and strong community support on Reddit and NovelUpdates.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
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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 site appears to be a legitimate fan-translation platform for web novels, currently displaying a standard legal compliance notice rather than any scam or phishing indicators.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsLarge modal overlay with an 'Important Notice' regarding legal threats and content removal
Links provided to legitimate external platforms like tapas.io and wuxiaworld.com
Professional layout for a web novel translation site including navigation, search, and rankings
Presence of upcoming chapter countdowns which are standard for serial content sites
No deceptive trust badges or typical phishing forms observed
MT Intelligence
The domain has been active for over 900 days and shows no signs of malicious activity. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists report no threats or phishing indicators. While the site uses countdown timers for chapter releases, these are standard for serial content platforms and not a deceptive urgency tactic. Community feedback across major forums is overwhelmingly positive, identifying this as a primary source for specific novel translations. The presence of a valid SSL certificate and professional layout further supports its legitimacy.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for wetriedtls.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- wetriedtls.com is a web novel translation and reading site (We Tried TLs / WeTried Translations) specializing in Korean web novels such as 'A Regressor's Tale of Cultivation', 'I'm an Infinite Regressor', and others; active for ~903 days (~
- Site offers free chapters along with a premium/coin system using PayPal, Stripe, and previously Binance Pay for paid chapters and subscriptions.
- Has faced legal threats from Kakao Entertainment, resulting in removal of certain licensed works from the site.
- Frequently discussed positively on Reddit communities (r/RegressorsTOC, r/SSSClassSuicideHunter, r/ProgressionFantasy) as a primary reading source; occasional downtime reported by users.
- Page includes scheduled release countdowns and urgency elements for upcoming chapters, matching the detected 'Countdown / Urgency' pattern.
- No scam reports, fraud complaints, malware associations, or negative reviews found across web searches, Reddit, or review platforms.
- ScamAdviser score of 66/100 noted; site has real traffic (~1.75M monthly per Semrush) and is listed with competitors like novelupdates.com and webnovel.com.
- Reddit (r/ProgressionFantasy)open
"The best cultivation novel I've read thus far (Regressor's Tale of Cultivation) ... Read from here: https://wetriedtls.com/series/a-regressors-tale-of-cultivation"
- NovelUpdatesopen
"WeTried Translations ... Series (48). Releases 6895"
- Reddit (r/RegressorsTOC)open
"Yes we tried tls is the best place to read RTOC"
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.
- Countdown timer or 'limited time' urgency pressure detected.
- Scam family match: Countdown / Urgency.
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://wetriedtls.com/
- 2200https://wetriedtls.com/
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 wetriedtls.com and not a lookalike like w-etriedtls.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.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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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 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 wetriedtls.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- wetriedtls.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 81/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. wetriedtls.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 76 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- wetriedtls.com is 2.5 years old, registered on 1/7/2024 through NameCheap, 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 wetriedtls.com as clean.
- No. wetriedtls.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- wetriedtls.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, 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.
- Independent trust-rating sites currently show the following for wetriedtls.com: ScamAdviser: 66/100. Those scores come from user reviews and their own heuristics, so they are worth comparing against our verdict.
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