Verdict
khanacademy.org 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 | Khan Academy homepage content describing free educational resources, user types (students, teachers, families), impact metrics, and donation/support options. Includes login/signup and cookie/consent controls. |
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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 | 20 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20075000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GlobalSign Atlas R3 DV TLS CA 2026 Q2 | 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 2007.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Khan Academy is an established educational website presenting free online courses, lessons, practice exercises, test preparation, teacher tools, and learning support for students, families, and educators. Its apparent business model is nonprofit education funded through donations, grants, and partners, with account registration and optional donor support rather than payment being required for core learning access.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed across the supplied evidence. The homepage’s educational content, student and teacher workflows, donation model, and login or signup functions are coherent with the stated nonprofit purpose. The site does not exhibit reported phishing, impersonation, malicious-content, or coercive-monetization indicators, and the login form is presented as part of the normal account functionality rather than as a deceptive credential-collection mechanism. The available evidence supports an apparently legitimate, established website, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
- The homepage identifies free courses, practice content, teacher resources, student and family learning, and optional donations; no red flags were recorded.
- Domain registration: 2006-03-14T22:24:02Z (~20.43 years old), with registration expiring 2029-03-14T22:24:02Z.
- Historical provenance records 5,000 archive snapshots spanning 2007-03-02 to 2018-09-12, covering 12 years with continuous historical activity.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, no search-engine-malware flag, and no blacklist hit.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents an education-focused nonprofit model rather than a financial or investment service. The supplied homepage does not establish a regulated license or registration number; this is a disclosure item for ordinary organizational verification, not evidence of scam activity. The available evidence is consistent with an established site, while the operator’s real-world identity remains independently unverified. Transport security and recognized delivery infrastructure support technical integrity but do not establish legal identity or regulatory status.
- The homepage describes free educational access supported by donations, grants, and partners and does not claim a financial-services license.
- The site’s server layer is served from AS54113 (FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US).
- TLS uses GlobalSign Atlas R3 DV TLS CA 2026 Q2, validation level DV, valid to 2026-11-11T17:18:53+00:00.
- The site has a high page-authority profile and a strong global traffic footprint; the available broker-context check produced no match.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an enterprise or user should independently confirm the organization’s legal identity through an authoritative nonprofit or corporate registry, review the applicable terms, privacy, donation, and refund information, and confirm that any payment flow is protected by the expected payment provider. Support or account-recovery channels should be confirmed through an independently sourced official route rather than relying solely on an unverified contact path.
- The homepage provides login, signup, donation, and consent functions, creating distinct account and payment-related interaction points.
- The site describes core learning access as free and presents donor support as optional.
- The supplied content includes privacy and cookie controls but does not independently establish the operator’s legal identity.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with strong convergence between the site’s stated educational purpose, long-running public presence, clean external reputation, and stable technical behavior. The evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website, but it does not independently prove the real-world operator identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Amazon CloudFront CDN/WAF infrastructure, which provides a meaningful mitigation against direct exposure and common abuse patterns but is not, by itself, proof of legitimacy. Observed delivery includes CDN edge infrastructure and a potential origin candidate; this is consistent with a layered enterprise hosting design.
- CDN/WAF protection is identified as aws_cloudfront, with edge IPs 18.165.140.120, 18.165.140.46, 18.165.140.61, and 18.165.140.81 on AS16509.
- Infrastructure hosting is identified as AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US, AS16509.
- The observed transport behavior completed successfully in 2 of 2 runs, with no cloaking, hidden forms, wallet-drainer activity, clipboard hijacking, or suspicious inline scripts detected.
Closing Assessment
Normal educational browsing and account use are proportionate to the available evidence; before providing credentials or making a donation, ordinary independent checks of organizational identity, transaction protections, and applicable policies should be completed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-13 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 khanacademy.org.
- The request stayed on khanacademy.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by awsdns-58.org, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2029-03-14. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2007-03-02. Clear
- It is hosted on FASTLY, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
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| Hosting | FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 199.232.173.42 |
| Name servers | ns-1489.awsdns-58.org, ns-125.awsdns-15.com, ns-1664.awsdns-16.co.uk, ns-798.awsdns-35.net |
| SSL issuer | GlobalSign Atlas R3 DV TLS CA 2026 Q2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-11 |
| Domain age | 20.43 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2029-03-14 |
| Archive first seen | 2007-03-02 |
| 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 khanacademy.org 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.