kickstarter.com
Category: Business, Economy, Information Technology
Description of kickstarter.com
Kickstarter appears to be a well-known crowdfunding platform focused on helping creators raise money for creative and entrepreneurial projects. Based on the domain name, page layout, and visible navigation, the site supports campaigns across categories such as art, comics, crafts, design, film, food, games, journalism, music, photography, publishing, technology, and theater.
The homepage shown in the scan presents featured and recommended projects, along with creator-oriented navigation and discovery tools. This suggests the platform is designed to connect project creators with backers who may choose to financially support new products, media, and artistic works. The domain has been registered since 1998, which is consistent with a long-established online service.
Safety Assessment for kickstarter.com
The scan results indicate no malware detections from 0 out of 92 security engines, and the malware scan reported no flagged files or suspicious external resources at the time of this scan. In addition, the domain was listed as clean across the checked blacklist and threat-database sources, which is a positive signal when assessing current website risk.
Other contextual indicators also support a lower-risk assessment: the domain is very old, has a strong web presence based on its high traffic ranking, and the screenshot matches the expected appearance of a mainstream crowdfunding platform rather than a deceptive landing page. The only notable access-related detail is a challenge-platform URL associated with bot protection, which is common on large sites and does not by itself indicate malicious behavior.
Based on available scan data, no significant threats were detected at the time of this scan.
Technical Description
The site is served over HTTPS with a valid SSL/TLS certificate issued by a mainstream certificate authority, expiring in July 2026. It appears to be fronted by Cloudflare infrastructure, with nameservers on Cloudflare and the web server resolving to a Cloudflare IP address in Toronto, Canada. This setup is commonly used for content delivery, DDoS mitigation, and traffic filtering.
DNSSEC appears to be unsigned, which is not uncommon but means DNS responses may not benefit from DNSSEC validation. No technical indicators of compromise were provided in the scan results, and the limited file/link analysis did not identify flagged resources at the time of this scan.
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