Verdict
interactivebrokers.com 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 | Interactive Brokers homepage promoting a regulated global brokerage offering trading, investing, margin, cash management, prediction markets, research, education, and multiple trading platforms. It includes extensive regulatory, risk, pricing, affiliate, and corporate disclosures. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | 29 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 19981230 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by DigiCert EV RSA CA G2 | 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 1998.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Interactive Brokers is an established financial-services website presenting global brokerage services, investment products, trading platforms, market research, account funding, cash management, and prediction markets. Its apparent business model is to provide regulated brokerage and investment infrastructure supported by commissions, spreads, margin interest, securities lending, market data, and related services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed between the site’s identity, business presentation, historical presence, and technical indicators. The homepage presents a coherent Interactive Brokers brokerage identity, while external reputation checks show no malicious or suspicious detections, no blacklist hit, and no phishing or impersonation indicator.
- Homepage: identified as “Home | Interactive Brokers LLC,” with no detected brand-impersonation or phishing indicators.
- External reputation assessment: zero malicious detections, zero suspicious detections, and no blacklist result.
- Domain registration: registered in 1997 and approximately 29.26 years old through Network Solutions, LLC.
- Web archive: 1,230 snapshots spanning 1998–2026, covering 29 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage contains extensive regulatory, pricing, risk, corporate, affiliate, and contact disclosures. It presents a substantial brokerage offering, including stocks, ETFs, options, futures, currencies, bonds, margin lending, cash interest, and prediction markets; advertised examples include 3.13% on uninvested cash, margin rates starting at 4.13%, and $0 commissions on eligible US stocks and ETFs. A third-party broker record identifies Interactive Brokers Hong Kong Limited as regulated with a license found, although withdrawal-related discussion constitutes contextual reputational information rather than a regulatory finding. The supplied page evidence does not establish a specific license number for the reviewed entity, so jurisdiction-specific authorization remains a normal verification item.
- Homepage: extensive regulatory, risk, pricing, corporate, and contact disclosures.
- Third-party broker record: Interactive Brokers Hong Kong Limited listed as regulated with a license found.
- Hosting: AS27163, Interactive Brokers Corp, United States.
- TLS: DigiCert EV RSA CA G2, EV validation for Interactive Brokers LLC, valid through 2026-10-03.
What to Verify Next
Before opening an account or initiating material transactions, the relevant legal entity and authorization should be matched to the account holder’s jurisdiction using the applicable regulator’s public register. Product-specific terms, pricing, custody arrangements, and applicable disclosures should also be reviewed within the account-opening and transaction workflow. Official support and contact channels should be confirmed through the site’s published corporate pages and an independent route.
- Homepage: provides jurisdictional, product, pricing, and risk-disclosure material for this verification.
- Account-opening materials: should be matched to the customer’s legal entity and jurisdiction.
- Corporate and contact pages: provide the stated channels for independent confirmation.
Summary Verdict
The site presents a legitimate, established, high-trust posture with strong convergence across identity, content quality, reputation, historical continuity, and technical evidence. Normal interaction, including account login and standard account use, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to likely origin infrastructure operated by Interactive Brokers Corp, with no detected third-party CDN or WAF layer. This provides a straightforward hosting posture; the absence of an intermediary protection layer is a technical characteristic rather than evidence of illegitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Standard account interaction is appropriate, with jurisdiction-specific authorization and product terms confirmed as part of normal onboarding and transaction governance.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-02 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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 80/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 40% |
- Trusted social count=4
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 interactivebrokers.com.
- The request stayed on interactivebrokers.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Network Solutions, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by interactivebrokers.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2032-05-06. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1998-06-15. Clear
- It is hosted on INTERACTIVE-BROKERS-CORP, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Network Solutions, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | INTERACTIVE-BROKERS-CORP - Interactive Brokers Corp, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 64.190.196.59 |
| Name servers | CDNS.INTERACTIVEBROKERS.COM, NDNS.INTERACTIVEBROKERS.COM |
| SSL issuer | DigiCert EV RSA CA G2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-03 |
| Domain age | 29.3 years |
| Domain expiry | 2032-05-06 |
| Archive first seen | 1998-06-15 |
| Archive snapshots | 1230 |
| 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 interactivebrokers.com 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.