Verdict
curl.se appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Official curl project site content: downloads, release notes, documentation, API references, security/CVE information, sponsorship and contribution information. Focused on an open-source networking tool and library. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 5.8 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
curl.se presents itself as the curl project website, providing downloads, release information, documentation, API references, security and vulnerability information, contribution resources, sponsorship options, and optional paid support for the open-source curl command-line tool and libcurl library.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: the available evidence shows no phishing, impersonation, blacklist, or malicious-content indicators. The homepage and project documentation describe a coherent informational and open-source model rather than a deceptive commercial or financial-service operation. The site contains no login form, sensitive submission form, wallet connection, or suspicious external activity in the observed interaction. Its established domain history, strong global traffic footprint, clean external reputation, and high page authority materially support the conclusion that the website is apparently legitimate, while not independently proving the real-world operator’s identity.
- Homepage: presents curl downloads, documentation, development resources, sponsorship, and paid support without red-flag content.
- Security pages: provide curl CVE information, a vulnerability table, and a vulnerability-disclosure policy.
- Observed site behavior: two successful runs, HTTP 200 stability, zero external XHR or POST activity, no hidden forms, and no wallet or credential-handling activity.
- Domain registration: created 2020-10-19; approximately 5.83 years old.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site appears to operate as an open-source software project rather than as a regulated financial or investment service. The available material does not independently establish the real-world operator or provide a verified regulated-license basis; this is a transparency and verification consideration, not evidence of a scam or identity contradiction. The named registrar, valid transport encryption, established hosting arrangement, clean reputation, and high page-authority signal are consistent with a mature public project. No matching third-party broker reputation record was identified, although that context is not a legal or licensing determination.
- Domain registration: registrar is Oderland; creation date is 2020-10-19 and expiration date is 2026-10-19.
- Hosting: served from AS54113, FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US.
- TLS: certificate issued by YR2, domain validated (DV), valid to 2026-11-02.
- Project pages: identify curl, libcurl, documentation, releases, security resources, contribution channels, and support options, but the supplied evidence does not independently verify a legal-entity operator.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an enterprise should confirm the project’s official ownership and support arrangements through an independent source, review the applicable terms for any paid-support engagement, and ensure that payment protections and refund or service remedies are suitable for the transaction. Any licensing question should be checked against the relevant jurisdictional registry only if the proposed activity extends beyond software access or support.
- Project and “Who and Why” pages: suitable points for confirming the stated project governance and official ownership details through an independent route.
- Paid-support pages: suitable points for reviewing the scope, contracting party, service terms, and payment conditions.
- Sponsorship and contribution pages: suitable points for confirming the intended recipient and payment-protection arrangements before funds are transferred.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence supports a high-trust, low-risk posture for an established informational open-source website. The site is apparently legitimate and evidence-consistent with a mature public project, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Fastly CDN/WAF infrastructure, which is a mitigating control that reduces direct exposure of the serving environment but is not, by itself, proof of legitimacy. The observed infrastructure includes CDN edge delivery and a potential origin candidate; that arrangement is compatible with standard web-service protection and does not create a contradiction in this assessment.
- Fastly edge addresses observed: 151.101.1.91, 151.101.129.91, 151.101.193.91, and 151.101.65.91.
- Infrastructure resolution: 13 unique IP addresses, including 12 CDN edge addresses and 1 likely origin candidate.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary browsing, documentation access, downloads, and standard project engagement are proportionate to the assessment; independent confirmation of the contracting party and payment protections should precede credential submission or paid transactions.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-16 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of curl.se.
- The request stayed on curl.se. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Oderland. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by amplitut.de, across 5 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-19. Noted
- It is hosted on FASTLY, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Oderland |
|---|---|
| Hosting | FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2a04:4e42:e00::347 |
| Name servers | ns.amplitut.de, ns1.haxx.se, nx3.named.se, nx2.named.se, nx1.named.se |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-02 |
| Domain age | 5.83 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-19 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about curl.se at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.