Scam Lookup
Automated Website Trust & Risk Intelligence Report
https://scamlookup.net/website/youtube
Generated: Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:54:06 GMT
Target Website: youtube.com
Overall Trust Score: 88/100 (Trusted)
youtube.com
Trusted
Scanned: Sep 5, 10:54 AMTRUST SCORE
88
CONFIDENT
Low Risk
88/100
TRUST SCORE
CONFIDENT
Low Risk
SAFETY
100/100
100/100
TRANSPARENCY
15/100
15/100
DOMAIN RISK
LowLow Tier
LowRisk
SSL SECURITY
100/100
100/100
PAYMENT RISK
NoNo Risk
NoRisk
VERDICT
Trusted
Trusted
AI Security Summary
88/100 — trusted. Long-established domain (21.6 years old), clean threat reputation, no impersonation patterns. Verdict driven by: no privacy policy found; no terms of service found; no contact page found — worth extra caution before trusting.
No malware/phishing on feedsGood reputationHTTPS enabled
HTTPS & SSL
SecureSecure
Standard Trusted CA
Threat Status
CleanClean
No blacklists or malware
Domain Age
21.6 years21.6 years
Registered 2/15/2005
Reputation
High TrustHigh Trust
Based on 65+ verified signals
IP & Server
142.251.178.91142.251.178.91
cloudflare
Email Security
ProtectedProtected
SPF, DMARC, MX active
Performance
36 / 10036 / 100
Standard speed
Redirects
1 Hop1 Hop
Redirect chain analyzed
Top Priority RecommendationAction Needed
No mobile viewport meta tag
The page won't render correctly on phones without a viewport tag.
Why it matters
Addressing this signal prevents trust downgrades and potential security risks.
View Glossary GuidePositive Signals
- Site responded with 200
- HTTPS is enforced
- Served through Cloudflare
- 8 address record(s) resolved
- IPv6 (AAAA) available
- 4 authoritative nameservers
- Domain registered 22+ years ago
- Owner information disclosed
Warnings
- No mobile viewport meta tag
- No privacy policy found
- No terms of service found
- No contact page found
- Large response served uncompressed
Critical Issues
No critical issues found
Domain passes all high-risk checks
- Registrar Name
- MarkMonitor Inc.
- Creation Date
- February 15, 2005 (21.6 years ago)
- Last Updated
- January 14, 2026
- Registry Expiry Date
- February 15, 2027
- WHOIS Privacy Protection
- Publicly Visible
- Domain Status Codes
- client delete prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited, server delete prohibited, server transfer prohibited, server update prohibited
ICANN Status Badges
client delete prohibitedclient transfer prohibitedclient update prohibitedserver delete prohibitedserver transfer prohibitedserver update prohibited
Domain registered 22+ years ago
Long-established domains are far less likely to be disposable scams.
+15
Registered via MarkMonitor Inc.
Owner information disclosed
The domain publishes registrant contact info — a small positive transparency signal.
+2
Security Header Baseline
Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
Content-Security-PolicyMissing
X-Frame-Options Present
X-Content-Type-Options Present
Referrer-PolicyMissing
Permissions-PolicyMissing
Recommended Missing Headers
missing: Referrer Policy
All Response Headers (26)
HSTS is set
Tells browsers to only use HTTPS for this domain.
+6
Content Security Policy is set
Restricts which scripts and resources the page can load.
+5
X-Frame-Options is set
Prevents clickjacking by disallowing framing.
+3
X-Content-Type-Options is set
Blocks MIME-sniffing browser attacks.
+2
Missing Referrer Policy
Controls what referrer information is sent with requests.
-2
Permissions Policy is set
Restricts access to powerful browser features (camera, mic, etc.).
+2
- IPv4 Addresses (A)
- 142.251.178.91, 142.251.178.190, 142.251.178.136, 142.251.178.93
- IPv6 Addresses (AAAA)
- 2607:f8b0:4023:1415::88, 2607:f8b0:4023:1415::5b, 2607:f8b0:4023:1415::be, 2607:f8b0:4023:1415::5d
- Mail Servers (MX)
- smtp.google.com (Priority: 0)
- Authoritative Nameservers (NS)
- ns3.google.com, ns2.google.com, ns4.google.com, ns1.google.com
- TXT Records Found
- 3 TXT verification records
A Records (IPv4)
142.251.178.91142.251.178.190142.251.178.136142.251.178.93
TXT Verification Records
facebook-domain-verification=64jdes7le4h7e7lfpi22rijygx58j1
v=spf1 include:google.com mx -all
google-site-verification=QtQWEwHWM8tHiJ4s-jJWzEQrD_fF3luPnpzNDH-Nw-w
8 address record(s) resolved
+4
IPv6 (AAAA) available
Modern dual-stack setup.
+2
4 authoritative nameservers
+2
- Registrable Domain
- youtube.com
- Registrar Organization
- MarkMonitor Inc.
- WHOIS Privacy Status
- Public Registration Data
- Registry Status Codes
- client delete prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited, server delete prohibited, server transfer prohibited, server update prohibited
- Delegated Authoritative Nameservers
- ns1.google.com, ns2.google.com, ns3.google.com, ns4.google.com
- Registration Lifecycle
- Registered: 2005 → Expires: 2027
Nameservers (NS)
ns1.google.comns2.google.comns3.google.comns4.google.com
Domain registered 22+ years ago
Long-established domains are far less likely to be disposable scams.
+15
Registered via MarkMonitor Inc.
Owner information disclosed
The domain publishes registrant contact info — a small positive transparency signal.
+2
- SPF Record
- v=spf1 include:google.com mx -all
- DMARC Policy Mode
- Policy: REJECT
- DMARC Raw Record
- v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:mailauth-reports@google.com
- DKIM Selectors Detected
- selector1
Email Protection Summary: This domain has strong email authentication configured to prevent spammers from sending emails impersonating this brand.
SPF record published
+5
DMARC published (reject)
+6
DKIM configured (selector1)
+3
URLhaus Malware
Clean / Not Listed
PhishStats Feed
Clean / Not Listed
Google Safe Browsing
Not checked
- Root Domain Label
- youtube
- Top-Level Domain (TLD)
- .com (Standard TLD)
- Punycode Obfuscation
- No (Standard ASCII)
- Homoglyph / Lookalike Script
- No mixed scripts
- Brand Match Analysis
- No recognized brand impersonation
- Typosquatting Risk
- Clean
No impersonation patterns detected
Domain doesn't look like a typosquat, doesn't embed a well-known brand, and uses ASCII characters.
+8
Detected Technologies by Category
js
Svelte
cdn
Cloudflare
Page Metadata & Fingerprint
- HTML Title
- YouTube
- Meta Description
- Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
- Document Language
- en
- Character Encoding
- utf-8
- Viewport Setting
- width=device-width
- Generator Software
- —
2 technologies detected
Svelte, Cloudflare
No mobile viewport meta tag
The page won't render correctly on phones without a viewport tag.
-3
Items to Fix & Optimize
Text compression (Brotli/Gzip)
MUCH NEEDEDEnable on server or CDN
Modern image formats (WebP/AVIF/SVG)
OPTIONALConvert heavy images to WebP/AVIF
Protocol
HTTP/3
QUIC-based, multiplexed
Compression
NONE
No compression detected
Optimization Signals (From Detectable Headers & Assets)
Image Formats
Legacy / Unchecked
Transfer
Uncompressed
Transport
QUIC/H3
These are server-side signals. Actual Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) require real-user measurement via PageSpeed Insights.
Detected Asset & Image Formats
WebPAVIFSVGJPEGPNG
- HTTP Response Time
- 570 ms
- Payload Body Size
- 858.2 KB
- Compression Status
- Uncompressed
- Cache Directives
- no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Large response served uncompressed
Enable gzip or brotli at the edge to cut transfer size dramatically.
-3
AI Content Evaluation
88/100 — trusted. Long-established domain (21.6 years old), clean threat reputation, no impersonation patterns. Verdict driven by: no privacy policy found; no terms of service found; no contact page found — worth extra caution before trusting.
- Payment Red Flags
- None (No suspicious payment requests)
- High-Pressure Language
- None (No artificial urgency detected)
- Disposable Domain Risk
- No (Established infrastructure)
- Text Scanned Depth
- 513,887 characters verified
No scam-correlated language found on the home page
No crypto-only / gift-card / wire-only payment demands, and no obvious urgency tactics.
+6
- Primary Web Server
- cloudflare
- CDN / Cloud Provider
- Cloudflare
- Primary IP Address
- 142.251.178.91
- HTTP Status Code
- 200 OK
- Final Landing Destination
- https://www.youtube.com/
- Redirect Hop Count
- 1 hop
Redirect Hop Chain
- 1.https://youtube.com/ → https://www.youtube.com/
Site responded with 200
Final URL: https://www.youtube.com/. Response time 570ms.
+8
HTTPS is enforced
All redirects stayed on HTTPS. Traffic is encrypted end-to-end.
+10
Served through Cloudflare
Sites behind a major CDN benefit from DDoS protection and edge caching.
+4
- Certificate Authority (Issuer)
- Standard Trusted CA
- Subject Common Name (CN)
- youtube.com
- Validity Period
- 60 days remaining (Expires: 2026-11-04T10:54:09.619Z)
- Subject Alternative Names (SANs)
- 1 domain protected
- Certificates Logged (CT)
- 1 certs recorded
Subject Alternative Names (Sample)
youtube.com
HTTPS encryption active & verified
Live TLS connection established successfully on port 443 with valid cipher suites.
+8
Key Legal & Transparency Pages
privacy PageNot linked
terms PageNot linked
contact PageNot linked
about PageNot linked
refund PageNot linked
shipping PageNot linked
cookies PageNot linked
- Published Phone Numbers
- 20260902.07, 610401301, 899588437, 772657768, 513659523, 568333945
No privacy policy found
Legally required in most jurisdictions. Its absence is a real red flag.
-4
No terms of service found
Reputable sites usually publish a terms of service.
-4
No contact page found
Reputable sites usually publish a contact page.
-4
No about page found
Reputable sites usually publish a about page.
-3
No refund/return policy found
Reputable sites usually publish a refund/return policy.
-3
No cookie policy found
Reputable sites usually publish a cookie policy.
-2
Phone number published
+2
- Robots.txt Directives
- Present & Configured
- Sitemaps Declared
- https://www.youtube.com/sitemaps/sitemap.xml, https://www.youtube.com/product/sitemap.xml
- Disallow Rules Count
- 22 rules
View Raw robots.txt
# robots.txt file for YouTube # Created in the distant future (the year 2000) after # the robotic uprising of the mid 90's which wiped out all humans. User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* Disallow: User-agent: * Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /channel_picker Disallow: /comment Disallow: /feeds/videos.xml Disallow: /file_download Disallow: /get_video Disallow: /get_video_info Disallow: /get_midroll_info Disallow: /live_chat Disallow: /login Disallow: /qr Disallow: /results Disallow: /signup Disallow: /t/terms Disallow: /timedtext_video Disallow: /verify_age Disallow: /watch_ajax Disallow: /watch_fragments_ajax Disallow: /watch_popup Disallow: /watch_queue_ajax Disallow: /youtubei/ Sitemap: https://www.youtube.com/sitemaps/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.youtube.com/product/sitemap.xml
robots.txt published
+2
Export & Share Intelligence
Download the complete official PDF verification report (all sections and technical signals expanded), or export raw JSON telemetry.
Scan Engine Performance
Automated multi-signal inspection pipeline
Signals Analyzed
36
This scan
Sources Checked
18
Live security feeds
Scan Duration
3.79s
Ultra-fast
Last Scan
9/5/2026
Live timestamp
Overall Risk
Low Risk