Is www.research.net legit or a scam?
Official SurveyMonkey white-label domain used for a legitimate Malaysian government agency survey with a 30-year clean history.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
The domain is the official infrastructure for SurveyMonkey's professional white-label survey services. It has been registered since 1995 and is used by major corporations and government entities worldwide. Our analysis of the specific URL shows it is a satisfaction survey for the Pusat Pungutan Zakat (PPZ-MAIWP), a verified Malaysian authority. All technical signals, including SSL certification and hosting reputation, are excellent. There are no indications of phishing or data harvesting beyond the intended scope of a professional survey.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for www.research.net, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- www.research.net is the official white-label survey domain owned by SurveyMonkey Inc. (US), registered on 1995-09-14 and set to expire in 2027.
- It is used to host custom-branded surveys (e.g. https://www.research.net/r/XXXXXX) for legitimate organizations, governments, and research purposes.
- The current page is a Malay-language satisfaction survey titled "TINJAUAN KEPUASAN PEMEGANG TARUH (TETAP) PPZ-MAIWP 2026 Survey" for Pusat Pungutan Zakat (PPZ-MAIWP), a real Malaysian zakat collection authority.
- Scamadviser rates it "Very Likely Safe" with positive highlights including high Tranco rank, valid SSL, long age, and trust marks; only negative is hidden WHOIS owner details (standard for the company).
- TrustedSite certified; homepage promotes white-label survey software with HIPAA compliance and Fortune 500 usage.
- One notable user complaint on Reddit about surveys not crediting on Swagbucks; some unrelated SMS phishing attempts have misused similar-looking domains like action-research.net.
- No evidence of scam families, phishing, or malware associated with www.research.net itself.
- Reddit (r/SwagBucks)open
"Don't do any surveys from Research.net ! Done two now over the past few weeks. They just hit a final screen that says Thanks for doing the survey then hangs and stays on that."
Registered to SurveyMonkey Inc. since 1995; domain expires 2027; registrar MarkMonitor Inc.
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 email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
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 www.research.net and not a lookalike like w-ww.research.net.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 www.research.net. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- www.research.net passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. www.research.net presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, expiring in 156 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- www.research.net is 30.8 years old, registered on 9/14/1995 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 www.research.net as clean.
- No. www.research.net is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- www.research.net resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 23, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around www.research.net have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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