Verdict
etherscan.io 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 | Ethereum blockchain explorer homepage showing live network statistics, blocks, transactions, gas data, token and NFT navigation, smart-contract utilities, API products, advertisements, and company resources. The page warns users not to store passwords or private keys in private-note fields. |
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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 | 11 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20155000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2015.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Etherscan is an Ethereum blockchain explorer and analytics platform that presents live network statistics, blocks, transactions, gas data, token and NFT activity, smart-contract utilities, developer tools, API services, and account-related features. Its apparent business model combines free public blockchain data with paid API plans, premium services, advertising, priority support, and explorer-as-a-service offerings.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: the supplied evidence contains no phishing, impersonation, malicious-content, or blacklist indicators. The site's long-running historical continuity, strong public footprint, clean external reputation, and high page-authority signals converge with the current Ethereum-explorer identity. The evidence supports an apparently legitimate and established site, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
- Domain registered 2015 (~11 years old), according to the site's registration continuity.
- 5,000 archive snapshots spanning 2015-08-15 to 2024-08-16, covering 10 years tracked.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, 0 abuse reports, and no blacklist hit for the domain.
- Historical page titles and content remained aligned with an Ethereum blockchain explorer and analytics purpose.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage presents a software and data-service model rather than a claimed regulated financial institution. It provides Ethereum exploration, API and developer services, advertisements, premium offerings, and account personalization, while expressly warning users not to place passwords or private keys in private-note fields. No regulatory license or registration number is claimed in the supplied site content; this is a disclosure point for any regulated use case, not evidence of deception. The available material is consistent with an established website, but it does not independently verify the legal entity operating it.
- Hosted on AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- TLS certificate issued by WE1 (DV), valid to 2026-09-20.
- Domain registrar: NAMECHEAP INC; registration date 2015-08-12; expiration date 2029-08-12.
- The homepage identifies company resources, policies, support resources, API pricing, and premium-service offerings, but no license number or licensing authority is shown in the supplied content.
What to Verify Next
For institutional or regulated use, the relevant legal entity should be confirmed through the site's company and terms materials and, where applicable, against the registry governing the intended service or jurisdiction. Before credential or payment interactions, ordinary independent checks of official contact channels, applicable terms, and payment-protection arrangements should be completed. Technical users should also confirm that any API subscription or integration is initiated through the intended official domain and documented service path.
- The homepage links to company resources, policies, support, API documentation, and API pricing pages that can be reviewed for contractual and legal details.
- The homepage contains sign-in and account-personalization functionality, making the terms and account-security guidance relevant before credential submission.
- Premium and paid-service references provide a basis for checking billing terms and payment protections before a commercial transaction.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with the evidence strongly consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. The remaining qualification is that the operator's real-world identity is not independently verified, so legitimacy should be understood as evidence-consistent rather than proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN and WAF protection provide a meaningful mitigating control by placing the service behind mainstream edge infrastructure and reducing direct exposure of the hosting environment. Observed delivery includes Cloudflare edge servers and a potential origin candidate; this infrastructure supports resilience and exposure management but is not, by itself, proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Routine informational use appears proportionate to the assessed posture; before submitting credentials or making payments, ordinary independent checks of identity, applicable terms, and payment protections should be completed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-11 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 | 25% |
- 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 etherscan.io.
- The request stayed on etherscan.io. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under NAMECHEAP INC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2029-08-12. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2015-08-15. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | NAMECHEAP INC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:10::ac42:9560 |
| Name servers | dora.ns.cloudflare.com, hank.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-20 |
| Domain age | 11.00 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2029-08-12 |
| Archive first seen | 2015-08-15 |
| Archive snapshots | 5000 |
| 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 etherscan.io 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.