Is worldtimeapi.org safe?
http://worldtimeapi.org/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (60 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading · not available: did not fully complete
- page capture · not available: did not fully complete
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
WorldTimeAPI is a long-standing free time service with no detections, but its own pages could not be reviewed
WorldTimeAPI is a free, non-commercial time and timezone microservice that has been online for years. Technical checks are clean: the domain is 3038 days old, the multi-engine malware scan shows 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections across 93 engines, and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. However, the site's own page, contact, About and policy text could not be captured, so its current operator, purpose and any commercial mechanisms remain unverified. With no adverse evidence and no established reputation beyond domain age, the score sits in the Low Risk band rather than Safe.
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 78/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. No adverse finding was saved; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
No adverse finding was saved with this report.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 3038 days old, indicating a long-standing registration rather than a new throwaway domain.
- SupportsThe multi-engine malware scan reports 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections across 93 engines.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the domain.
Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
WorldTimeAPI is a free, non-commercial time and timezone microservice that has been online for years. Technical checks are clean: the domain is 3038 days old, the multi-engine malware scan shows 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections across 93 engines, and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. However, the site's own page, contact, About and policy text could not be captured, so its current operator, purpose and any commercial mechanisms remain unverified. With no adverse evidence and no established reputation beyond domain age, the score sits in the Low Risk band rather than Safe.
Clean technical signals, but not proof of safety
The saved multi-engine malware scan result shows 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections across 93 engines, and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. These are positive indicators that no known malware or phishing signature is associated with the domain at the time of scanning.
The saved TLS check did not validate the connection. This is a neutral technical observation: it means the encrypted connection could not be confirmed in this scan, not that the site is malicious. It does, however, mean visitors cannot rely on a validated secure connection from this evidence alone.
Operator and page content remain unverified
The site's own page, contact, About and policy text could not be captured because the connection was reset. As a result, the current operator, the service's present status, and any commercial or data-collection practices were not reviewed. This is a significant gap: clean antivirus and Safe Browsing results mean no detections, not that the site is safe or trustworthy.
The registrable domain is 3038 days old, which indicates a long-standing registration rather than a newly created throwaway domain. Domain age is a supportive context signal, but it does not by itself establish that the current operator or service is legitimate or that the site is still active.
Why the score is 78
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/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 60 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 33 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Clean
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiInformation Technology
- BitDefenderadvice
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerinformation technology
- Googletechnology
- Sophosinformation technology
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Independent evidence classifies the site as content, but the page's own claim could not be captured.
What we observed
The page itself could not be fully inspected, so the report relies on the other saved checks.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
1 of the 4 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
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The registrable domain is 3038 days old, indicating a long-standing registration rather than a new throwaway domain.
- 02The site's own page, contact, About and policy text could not be captured, so operator and commercial practices were not reviewed.
- 03The browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the domain.
Web research findings
Independent findings for worldtimeapi.org, 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 worldtimeapi.org. 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.
- Domainworldtimeapi.org
- Redirects toworldtimeapi.org
- Hosted byFly.io, Inc
Domain Timeline
- Jun 28, 2018Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 8 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 22, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
worldtimeapi.org has operated for years and this review found no material threat — a long track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Domain & Encryption
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.
Server Reputation
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentunavailable
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidenceunavailable
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.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
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 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Oct 22, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
| Page content | Page content was not available for semantic review | Unavailable | No saved finding | Not available |
| Visual evidence | The saved page capture was not reliable enough to use | Unavailable | No saved finding | Not available |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 22, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage content was not available for semantic review
- CompletionUnavailableFindingNo saved finding
- FreshnessNot available
- Visual evidence
- ResultThe saved page capture was not reliable enough to use
- CompletionUnavailableFindingNo saved finding
- FreshnessNot available
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 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.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
WorldTimeAPI is a long-standing free time service with no detections, but its own pages could not be reviewed
The written conclusion remains part of the saved report.
WorldTimeAPI is a free, non-commercial time and timezone microservice that has been online for years. Technical checks are clean: the domain is 3038 days old, the multi-engine malware scan shows 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections across 93 engines, and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. However, the site's own page, contact, About and policy text could not be captured, so its current operator, purpose and any commercial mechanisms remain unverified. With no adverse evidence and no established reputation beyond domain age, the score sits in the Low Risk band rather than Safe.
09 · Community
Community
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