No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is wikihow.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate how-to site with 22-year domain history, clean reputation, and multiple positive reviews from independent sources.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site displays the official wikiHow homepage with matching title, description, and extensive how-to content. The domain is over 22 years old with valid SSL and zero abuse reports on its hosting IP. Our research found no scam reports or complaints, while positive mentions confirm awards and a 5-star independent review aggregator rating. Visual analysis confirms a professional, non-clone design with no scam indicators. The only minor note is a possible false-positive brand mention, but it does not affect the overall clean verdict.
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.
No scam visual patterns detected
This is the legitimate wikiHow homepage with clean, professional design and no scam indicators visible.
Brand Impersonation
medium confidenceThe page mentions or styles itself as Minecraft, but is hosted on a domain that is not an official Minecraft property.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for wikihow.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Founded January 15, 2005 by Jack Herrick as wikiHow, Inc. (US)
- Trustpilot: 5-star rating based on 120 reviews
- Scamadviser: "wikihow.com is legit and safe for consumers to access"
- Wikipedia: hybrid for-profit organization; multiple awards and positive media mentions (Webby, Mashable, Gizmodo, Forbes)
- No scam reports, fraud complaints, or negative consumer reviews identified in searches for "scam", "complaint", or "reddit"
- Domain age listed as 8018 days; page title/description match official wikiHow branding
- Extensive content on avoiding scams; no detected scam families
- Trustpilotopen
"wikiHow has 5 stars ! Check out what 120 people have written so far, and share your own experience."
- Wikipediaopen
"wikiHow has won multiple awards, including a Webby Award for Community in 2009... Mashable selected wikiHow as runner-up for best wiki... Gizmodo included wikiHow in its list of "100 Websites That Shaped the Internet""
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, we think wikihow.com is legit and safe for consumers to access."
wikiHow, Inc. (CIN: 204543869) listed as active; founded 2005 by Jack Herrick
Our research found no scam reports or complaints. Positive mentions on review sites and Wikipedia highlight its legitimacy and awards. Business registration confirms it's an active US company founded in 2005.
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.
- Page impersonates Minecraft on a non-official domain.
- Links to 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://wikihow.com/
- 2301https://wikihow.com/
- 3301https://www.wikihow.com/cross-domain
- 4200https://www.wikihow.com/Main-Pagecross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page mentions Minecraft (non-official domain).
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page mentions Minecraft (non-official domain).
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 wikihow.com and not a lookalike like w-ikihow.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 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 wikihow.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- wikihow.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 85/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. wikihow.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Certainly · Certainly Intermediate R1, expiring in 26 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- wikihow.com is 22.0 years old, registered on 6/12/2004 through Network Solutions, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. wikihow.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- wikihow.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.
- 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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