Is yooutube.com a scam?

Our automated security review flags yooutube.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.

Is yooutube.com safe to use?

No — yooutube.com scored 15/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.

How old is the yooutube.com domain?

yooutube.com is 19.7 years old, registered on 9/15/2006 through MarkMonitor Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.

Has yooutube.com been flagged by antivirus engines?

2 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged yooutube.com as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.

Is yooutube.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?

No. yooutube.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.

How often is the yooutube.com report updated?

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.

DANGEROUS

Brand impersonation — not the real site

Old typosquat of youtube.com showing only a browser DNS error with two security engines raising flags. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.

Security Review

Is yooutube.com legit or a scam?

Name: Is yooutube.com legit or a scam?
Item: yooutube.com
Rating: 1
Author: MalwareTips

Our verdict:Dangerous· 15/100

SafeSuspiciousDangerous

Old typosquat of youtube.com showing only a browser DNS error with two security engines raising flags.

Top reasons

Domain is a documented typosquat of youtube.com.Seclookup and alphaMountain.ai both flagged the name.Fingerprinting links it directly to youtube.com clone patterns.

yooutube.comScanned 5h ago

Post Facebook

Trust score

DANGEROUS

Heuristics 0·MT 25

Category tags

typosquatting#Clone Site75% MT confidence

Technical red flags (3)

2 of 92 engines flagged Scam-network signals (65/100)Typosquat of youtube.com

Positive signals (2)

Not on major blacklists Domain is 20 years old

These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.

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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence

0/92

Engines flagged this URL

Domain Age

20 years old

Registered Sep 15, 2006

MT Intelligence

Suspicious

Moderate likelihood · 75% confidence

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence

MT Security Analyst

Moderate scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust25/100

MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspectionNetwork correlation

Confidence

The domain yooutube.com matches a known typosquat pattern of youtube.com and carries a 65/100 suspicion score from our fingerprinting. Two engines in our antivirus network flagged the domain while browser blocklists stayed clean. The page itself does not exist and returns an NXDOMAIN error with no content loaded. The domain itself is over nineteen years old with no scam reports or complaints attached to it in our searches. These factors together point to a dormant but risky name that should be avoided.

Full dossier

Analysis complete

Page Content

The screenshot displays a standard browser DNS error page for a non-existent domain. No site content, forms, or redirects are present.

Infrastructure

Seclookup marked the domain malicious and alphaMountain.ai marked it suspicious. Browser blocklist feeds returned clean. No SSL or sandbox data was available.

Domain History

WHOIS records show the domain is 7203 days old and registered through MarkMonitor Inc. without privacy protection. It has appeared in past UDRP filings and forum discussions as a youtube.com variant.

Web Reputation

No scam reports, complaints, or business registrations were located. Mentions are limited to old references linking the name to YouTube-related topics.

Risk Factors

Domain is a documented typosquat of youtube.com.
Seclookup and alphaMountain.ai both flagged the name.
Fingerprinting links it directly to youtube.com clone patterns.

Positive Signals

Domain has been registered for over nineteen years.
No scam reports or consumer complaints were found.
Browser blocklists did not flag the domain.

AI Recommendation

Avoid visiting or entering any information on misspelled versions of major sites. Use bookmarks or direct typing of the correct domain.

Scam network detected

1 linked domain correlated

Domain matches clone and typosquat patterns of youtube.com.

youtube.com

Next-gen fraud intelligence

Evidence-backedCross-checked

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LIVE RENDER

yooutube.com

1Browser DNS error page displayed for non-existent domain yooutube.com (NXDOMAIN)

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.

/ 100

No visual red flags

No scam visual patterns detected

Screenshot shows standard browser error page; no website content or scam indicators are present.

Visual risk0/100

What our vision model saw

1 signal

Browser DNS error page displayed for non-existent domain yooutube.com (NXDOMAIN)

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for yooutube.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Domain age

19 yrs

Registered Sep 2006

Business registration

No public record found

Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.

Clone check

Clones youtube.com

The page impersonates a well-known brand's site.

Typosquat check

Typosquat of youtube.com

Deliberate misspelling of a real brand's domain.

Web mentions

No scam reports found

No complaints, no negative coverage turned up in our sweep.

Key findings

6 headline facts from open-web research

- Domain yooutube.com appears in web links for streaming live events and videos, e.g. 'Game will be streamed live on Yooutube.com /VarsityMedia' (Instagram post)
- Listed among similar domains in 2011 UDRP decision Google Inc. v Media Enseguida SA / Raul Gomez: '< yooutube.com >, <you7tube.com>, ...'
- Referenced in Google Webmasters forum thread (Dec 2020): 'Can i run AdSense on similar name website ! Eg: yooutube.com which is similar to youtube'
- Used in video descriptions and channel names, e.g. 'yooutube.com /c/thriveprogramme' and YouTube channel 'Yooutube. com'
- No dedicated scam reports, complaints, or reviews found for yooutube.com in targeted searches; results primarily surface general YouTube content due to similarity
- Domain age given as 7203 days (~19.7 years); no WHOIS/registration details surfaced in searches

Impersonation / typosquat

Typosquat of youtube.com

misspelling with extra 'o' (yooutube vs youtube)

Research summary

Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for yooutube.com and didn't find scam reports or complaints. For a new or low-traffic site this is expected and is not by itself a sign of trust.

Scam Network Intelligence

Cross-site correlation

This site shares signals with a broader cluster

Critical cluster

Many scams don't operate alone. We correlate third-party scripts, hosting infrastructure, brand-impersonation signals, and the AI evidence package to detect when a site is part of a broader scam network.

Suspicion score

0/100

ClearLowModerateHighCritical

Evidence (2)

Evidence confirms this site is a clone of youtube.com.
Domain is a typosquat of youtube.com.

Linked signals (2)

Clone of youtube.comTyposquat of youtube.com

Antivirus Engines

Detection matrix · live

2 engines flagged this URL

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. Each detection is listed below by engine name — even a single hit is a meaningful signal.

1Malicious1Suspicious57Harmless92Engines

of 92

Seclookup

Malicious· malicious

alphaMountain.ai

Suspicious· suspicious

2 antivirus engines flagged this URL. Even a single detection is a meaningful signal — treat this site with extra caution and avoid entering credentials, payment info, or downloading any files.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check

Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History

Age20 years old

RegistrarMarkMonitor Inc.

RegisteredSep 15, 2006

ExpiresSep 15, 2026

Owner privacyVisible

Scam-Type Likelihood

2 scam-type patterns detected

Scam-Type Likelihood

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.

Top match: Brand Impersonation

Brand Impersonation

Moderate likelihood

0/100

Domain is a typosquat of youtube.com.
AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.

Phishing

Low-level signals

0/100

Domain is a typosquat of youtube.com.

Scam-Type Likelihood

0 of 13 categories showed signals

Top match: Brand Impersonation

Brand Impersonation

Moderate likelihood

0/100

Domain is a typosquat of youtube.com.
AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.

Phishing

Low-level signals

0/100

Domain is a typosquat of youtube.com.

Brand impersonation detected

This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.

Do not interact with yooutube.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
Report the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing

Not listedCheck ↗

VirusTotal

ListedCheck ↗

Also verify:Spamhaus ↗DNSBL / SURBL ↗PhishTank ↗

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 flags yooutube.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.

Final Verdict

Trust / 100

Final Verdict·yooutube.com

DANGEROUS

yooutube.com is a long-registered typosquat of youtube.com that currently returns only a DNS error page. Seclookup flagged it malicious and alphaMountain.ai flagged it suspicious. Skip any similar misspelled domains.

Avoid visiting or entering any information on misspelled versions of major sites. Use bookmarks or direct typing of the correct domain.

AV engines

MT passes

Net signals

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