Is youutube.com safe?
http://youutube.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (60 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading · not available: did not fully complete
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
youutube.com is a misspelled YouTube lookalike that redirects to a second lookalike domain, youvetube.com, showing a "domain may be for sale" parking page.
The address is a typo-squat: the host name is a misspelling of youtube.com, and the request is redirected cross-domain to youvetube.com, another near-miss variant of the same brand. The page that loads is a parking notice reading "Find information, resources and relevant links for youvetube.com. This domain may be for sale." with only Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links and no About, contact, product or checkout elements. Independent research includes warnings that the site was flagged as possibly malicious and that its content could not be analysed, plus a blog post calling this domain family phishing sites posing as genuine ones. The multi-engine malware scan shows 1 malicious and 2 suspicious detections across 93 engines, while the browser threat feed returned no warning. The site's own pages could not be read at all, so no operator, contact or policy text was reviewed.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan3 antivirus engines flagged this URLChong Lua Dao, alphaMountain.ai, GridinsoftWhere 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 38/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 4 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Moderate1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result.
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This website has been reported by Gridinsoft as possible malware"
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "These are phising sites- sites posing as genuine ones."
- MinorThe host is a doubled-letter misspelling of youtube.com and redirects to youvetube.com, a second near-miss spelling of the same brand.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the host.
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 7355 days old, consistent with an aged domain being reused.
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).
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- Report the site
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- Ignore anyone offering to recover your money
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Full answers about refunds and reporting are in the Safety FAQ below.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The address is a typo-squat: the host name is a misspelling of youtube.com, and the request is redirected cross-domain to youvetube.com, another near-miss variant of the same brand. The page that loads is a parking notice reading "Find information, resources and relevant links for youvetube.com. This domain may be for sale." with only Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links and no About, contact, product or checkout elements. Independent research includes warnings that the site was flagged as possibly malicious and that its content could not be analysed, plus a blog post calling this domain family phishing sites posing as genuine ones. The multi-engine malware scan shows 1 malicious and 2 suspicious detections across 93 engines, while the browser threat feed returned no warning. The site's own pages could not be read at all, so no operator, contact or policy text was reviewed.
A misspelled YouTube address that hands visitors to a second lookalike domain
The requested host, youutube.com, is a doubled-letter misspelling of youtube.com, and the browser ends up on youvetube.com — a different near-miss spelling of the same brand. A German question-and-answer thread describes exactly this: someone who mistyped youtube.com while searching landed on youutube.com. That is the whole traffic model here: catching people who mistype the real site.
What loads after the redirect is not a video site. The page carries a large heading with the youvetube.com name and body text saying the domain may be for sale, with only Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links in the footer. There is no About page, no contact route, no product and no checkout, so nobody is disclosed as running it.
A subdomain-scanning service states plainly that it is not affiliated with youvetube.com, which underlines that the lookalike name is not tied to any recognised operator.
Independent warnings and mixed engine results
Public checks on this domain include a report that it was flagged as possible malware, and a note that the site does not allow its content to be analysed. A blog post about the YouTube typo family goes further and calls these addresses phishing sites posing as genuine ones, describing the same page appearing under the www variant.
The same pattern is reported for the redirect destination: a flag as potentially malicious and an observation that many low-rated websites sit on the same server. Engine scanning of the original host returned 1 malicious and 2 suspicious verdicts across 93 engines, with a strongly negative reputation score.
The counterweight is real but limited: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, most engines returned harmless, and the domain has been registered since 2006, which fits an old domain being reused rather than a freshly made one. A valid TLS certificate exists, though the scanned address was served over plain HTTP with no redirect to HTTPS.
The site's own pages could not be reviewed, and the hosting has abuse history
Repeated attempts to read the site timed out over both HTTP and HTTPS, so its own page, contact, About and policy text was never reviewed. What we know about the page comes from the rendered screenshot and from third-party records, not from the operator's own words.
The hosting address carries an abuse confidence score of 35 out of 100 across 32 saved reports, last reported the same day as the scan. That is a shared-hosting signal rather than proof about this domain specifically, but it does not add reassurance.
Why the score is 38
1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
3/ 93
detectionsFresh result
3 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 1
- Suspicious
- 2
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| Chong Lua DaoMalicious | malicious |
| alphaMountain.aiSuspicious | suspicious |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- Chong Lua Dao - Malicious
- alphaMountain.ai - Suspicious
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - 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
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- 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
- 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 - Unrated
- 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 - Unrated
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiSuspicious
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerparked domain
- Xcitium Verdict Cloudmoderated forums
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.
What we observed
Visual context from the captured page
Dark navy page with a large centered heading reading 'youvetube.com' — the final URL after redirect, not the requested youutube.com. Body text reads 'Find information, resources and relevant links for youvetube.com. This domain may be for sale.' — a domain-parking/for-sale notice rather than a product or service page. Only two links are visible: 'Terms of Service' and 'Privacy Policy'. No About, contact, product, cart, or checkout elements are shown. The displayed domain 'youvetube.com' is a near-miss misspelling of youtube.com, consistent with a typo-squat landing page reached from the misspelled host youutube.com.
What the captured page showed
4 observations- 01
Dark navy page with a large centered heading reading 'youvetube.com' — the final URL after redirect, not the requested youutube.com.
- 02
Body text reads 'Find information, resources and relevant links for youvetube.com. This domain may be for sale.' — a domain-parking/for-sale notice rather than a product or service page.
- 03
Only two links are visible: 'Terms of Service' and 'Privacy Policy'. No About, contact, product, cart, or checkout elements are shown.
- 04
The displayed domain 'youvetube.com' is a near-miss misspelling of youtube.com, consistent with a typo-squat landing page reached from the misspelled host youutube.com.
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
No page claim could be verified for youutube.com because no usable page content or saved capture was available.
What we observed
Saved browser evidence recorded cross domain landing.
What independent research found
9 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 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
Phishing & Impersonation
Service and business model
Unknown
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The multi-engine malware scan returned 1 malicious and 2 suspicious verdicts across 93 engines with a strongly negative reputation score.
- 021 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result.
- 03The registrable domain is 7355 days old, consistent with an aged domain being reused.
Web research findings
Independent findings for youutube.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- ScamAdviseropen
"This website has been reported by Gridinsoft as possible malware"
- ScamAdviseropen
"El sitio no nos permite analizar su contenido"
- nokik.wordpress.com (this and that blog)open
"I also tried “http://www.youutube.com” adn the same page comes up."
- nokik.wordpress.com (this and that blog)open
"These are phising sites- sites posing as genuine ones."
- ScamAdviseropen
"Gridinsoft has flagged this website as potentially malicious"
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.
Infrastructure map
- Domainyouutube.com
- Redirects toyouvetube.com
- Hosted byAmazon Technologies Inc.
Domain Timeline
- Sep 15, 2006Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 20 years old when this review was saved.
- Nov 5, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
youutube.com is an established domain now carrying threat signals. An older domain that starts tripping security checks is a classic pattern for an asset that was sold, repurposed, or compromised — the age alone is not reassurance.
Domain & Encryption
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
This is the certificate of youvetube.com, the site this URL lands on. Certificate issued for youvetube.com.
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.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://youutube.com/
- 2206http://youvetube.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentunavailable
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. · The host is a doubled-letter misspelling of youtube.com and redirects to youvetube.com, a second near-miss spelling of the same brand.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This website has been reported by Gridinsoft as possible malware" · 2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "These are phising sites- sites posing as genuine ones."
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 3 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Nov 4, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 5, 2026 |
| Page content | Page content was not available for semantic review | Unavailable | No saved finding | Not available |
| Visual evidence | 4 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 5, 2026 |
| Independent research | 9 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 5, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result3 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 4, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 5, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage content was not available for semantic review
- CompletionUnavailableFindingNo saved finding
- FreshnessNot available
- Visual evidence
- Result4 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 5, 2026
- Independent research
- Result9 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 5, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is youutube.com a scam or a legit website?
Is youutube.com safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on youutube.com — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from youutube.com?
Did youutube.com steal my password or personal information?
How do I report youutube.com?
youutube.com looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has youutube.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is youutube.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the youutube.com domain?
Does youutube.com have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the youutube.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
youutube.com is a misspelled YouTube lookalike that redirects to a second lookalike domain, youvetube.com, showing a "domain may be for sale" parking page.
The address is a typo-squat: the host name is a misspelling of youtube.com, and the request is redirected cross-domain to youvetube.com, another near-miss variant of the same brand. The page that loads is a parking notice reading "Find information, resources and relevant links for youvetube.com. This domain may be for sale." with only Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links and no About, contact, product or checkout elements. Independent research includes warnings that the site was flagged as possibly malicious and that its content could not be analysed, plus a blog post calling this domain family phishing sites posing as genuine ones. The multi-engine malware scan shows 1 malicious and 2 suspicious detections across 93 engines, while the browser threat feed returned no warning. The site's own pages could not be read at all, so no operator, contact or policy text was reviewed.
09 · Community
Community
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