No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is youtube.com legit or a scam?
Official YouTube video platform with clean scans, 21-year domain age, and confirmed Alphabet ownership.
Analysis Summary
AI Security Analysis
The site is the well-known YouTube service for watching and uploading videos. Strongest signal is the domain age of 7771 days combined with confirmed ownership by Alphabet Inc. / Google LLC. Our antivirus network returned zero detections and browser blocklists are clean. The hosting IP shows minimal abuse history and valid SSL is present. Evidence package confirms no scam reports and matches the official business records exactly.
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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for youtube.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- youtube.com is the primary domain for the official YouTube video platform, owned by Google/Alphabet since 2006.
- Founded February 14, 2005 by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen; acquired by Google for $1.65 billion in 2006.
- No scam reports directly targeting youtube.com as fraudulent; results instead discuss phishing emails, fake copyright notices, and scams promoted on the platform.
- Domain age listed as 7771 days (~21 years); consistent with 2005 founding.
- Searches for 'youtube.com scam', complaints, and typosquats primarily surface impersonation attempts or platform-related issues, not domain illegitimacy.
- Wikipedia and official sources confirm US-based operation under Alphabet Inc.
- Redditopen
"YouTube is a great app ! However, some people say there's too many ads, but there really isn't."
Owned by Alphabet Inc. / Google LLC; founded February 14, 2005
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 contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (3600000).
- Links to 9 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://youtube.com/
- 2301https://youtube.com/
- 3200https://www.youtube.com/cross-domain
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 youtube.com and not a lookalike like y-outube.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 youtube.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- youtube.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 91/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. youtube.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WR2, expiring in 63 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- youtube.com is 21.3 years old, registered on 2/15/2005 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 youtube.com as clean.
- No. youtube.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- youtube.com resolves to an IP operated by Google LLC in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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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