Is windscribe.de safe?
http://windscribe.de/
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How we checked
Coverage: partial · 4 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (63 of 71 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading · limited: did not fully complete
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
windscribe.de is not the official Windscribe VPN site — it redirects to a Sedo domain-sale parking page
Visitors who type or click windscribe.de expecting the Windscribe VPN service are sent to an unrelated external domain, a Sedo marketplace listing, rather than to any Windscribe product. The landing page itself is a parked placeholder that reads "The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." No malware, phishing form or credential-harvesting page was detected, and the hosting IP carries no abuse reports, so this is a brand-adjacent parked domain rather than an active attack. Because the domain trades on a well-known VPN brand name while serving no legitimate content, it sits in the Low Risk band rather than Safe.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 72/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 1 finding pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- MinorThe scanned address redirects the browser to an unrelated external domain, a Sedo domain marketplace listing, instead of hosting any Windscribe content.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for this address.
- SupportsThe hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across zero saved reports.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Visitors who type or click windscribe.de expecting the Windscribe VPN service are sent to an unrelated external domain, a Sedo marketplace listing, rather than to any Windscribe product. The landing page itself is a parked placeholder that reads "The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." No malware, phishing form or credential-harvesting page was detected, and the hosting IP carries no abuse reports, so this is a brand-adjacent parked domain rather than an active attack. Because the domain trades on a well-known VPN brand name while serving no legitimate content, it sits in the Low Risk band rather than Safe.
A brand-name domain that leads to a domain-sale page
The scanned address http://windscribe.de/ does not host a Windscribe VPN site. The browser is redirected to an unrelated external domain, a Sedo search/details page, which is a domain marketplace where the name is listed for sale or inquiry. The only content rendered on the landing page is a placeholder notice that the page is temporarily unavailable.
The name closely resembles the well-known Windscribe VPN brand, but the domain is not the official service. The Internet Archive holds captures of the home page from 2018 and 2019, which dates when the site was archived, not when the domain was registered; the .de registry's public lookup gives no registration date.
No active threat detected, but the brand-adjacent name is the real concern
Technical checks are clean: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, and the hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across zero saved reports. There is no evidence of malware, a phishing form or a credential-harvesting page on this domain.
One technical weakness is present: although a valid TLS certificate exists for the host, the scanned address was served over plain HTTP with no redirect to HTTPS, so the connection to it was not encrypted. That matters if a visitor ever submits anything on this address, but it is not evidence of phishing by itself.
The operator-side risk is the name itself. A domain that mirrors a real VPN brand while serving only a domain-sale placeholder can be used to confuse visitors, and the contact details behind the redirect were not attributed to this site because the address lands on another site.
Why the score is 72
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 71
No detectionsSaved analysis from September 11, 2019 - stale
No detections across 63 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 8 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 71
All 71 engine results
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Avira - Clean
- BADWARE.INFO - Clean
- Baidu-International - Clean
- BitDefender - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- CLEAN MX - Clean
- Comodo Site Inspector - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- CyberCrime - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Clean
- Dr.Web - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- EonScope - Clean
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity-Threat Inside - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- FraudScore - Clean
- FraudSense - Clean
- G-Data - Clean
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Clean
- Kaspersky - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Malc0de Database - Clean
- Malekal - Clean
- Malware Domain Blocklist - Clean
- Malwarebytes hpHosts - Clean
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwareDomainList - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- malwares.com URL checker - Clean
- Netcraft - Unrated
- NotMining - Unrated
- Nucleon - Clean
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Opera - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- SecureBrain - Clean
- securolytics - Clean
- Segasec - Unrated
- Sophos - Unrated
- Spam404 - Clean
- Spamhaus - Clean
- StopBadware - Unrated
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Tencent - Clean
- ThreatHive - Clean
- Trustwave - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Clean
- Virusdie External Site Scan - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Web Security Guard - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZCloudsec - Clean
- ZDB Zeus - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- Zerofox - Clean
- ZeusTracker - Clean
- zvelo - Clean
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
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What the captured page showed
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What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Domain Details Page
Pages we read
- Main page/search/details/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Domain Details Page
What we observed
Saved browser evidence recorded cross domain landing.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
2 of the 6 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Unknown
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The scanned address redirects the browser to an unrelated external domain, a Sedo domain marketplace listing, instead of hosting any Windscribe content.
- 02The Internet Archive captured the home page in 2018 and 2019; this dates when the site was archived, not when the domain was registered, and the .de registry gives no registration date.
- 03The hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across zero saved reports.
Web research findings
Independent findings for windscribe.de, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for windscribe.de. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The 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.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainwindscribe.de
- Redirects towindscribe.de
- Hosted byIONOS SE
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for windscribe.de.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it. This is the address of sedo.com, the site this URL lands on.
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Server Reputation
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentpartial
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The scanned address redirects the browser to an unrelated external domain, a Sedo domain marketplace listing, instead of hosting any Windscribe content.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 71 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Sep 11, 2019 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 29, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Limited | No saved finding | this scan · Oct 29, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 29, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 29, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 71 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Sep 11, 2019
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 29, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 29, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 29, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 29, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is windscribe.de a scam or is it safe?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
windscribe.de is not the official Windscribe VPN site — it redirects to a Sedo domain-sale parking page
Visitors who type or click windscribe.de expecting the Windscribe VPN service are sent to an unrelated external domain, a Sedo marketplace listing, rather than to any Windscribe product. The landing page itself is a parked placeholder that reads "The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." No malware, phishing form or credential-harvesting page was detected, and the hosting IP carries no abuse reports, so this is a brand-adjacent parked domain rather than an active attack. Because the domain trades on a well-known VPN brand name while serving no legitimate content, it sits in the Low Risk band rather than Safe.
09 · Community
Community
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