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lycos.com

Category: Search Engine

Scanned: May 31, 2026, 01:08 AM UTC · First seen: May 31, 2026 · Threat Engines: 0 / 91 · Times Scanned: 1
93 / 100 Trust Score Based on scan findings at the time of analysis
No Threats Found
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Screenshot of lycos.com Captured May 31, 2026
https://lycos.com
Screenshot of lycos.com
31 years
Very Popular - #1,900 Tranco rank (>10M monthly visitors)
Not listed (91 checked)
✓ Valid (TLS)
Vultr Holdings, LLC
Piscataway, United States
Caddy
Unknown
207.246.83.185
Domain & WHOIS Information
Registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registered April 13, 1995
Expires April 14, 2027
Name Servers AARAV.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
DNSSEC Unsigned
Hosting Vultr Holdings, LLC
Reputation & Threat Check 91 security engines checked
File Scan Summary Powered by Quttera Engine
22 files scanned
No threats
15
Low Risk
0
Medium Risk
7
High Risk
0
No threats Low Risk Medium Risk High Risk
lycos.com/privacy/es 28.5 KB Flagged: medium risk
lycos.com/privacy/en 25.3 KB Flagged: medium risk
lycos.com/privacy/ne 27.4 KB Flagged: medium risk
lycos.com/privacy/it 27.3 KB Flagged: medium risk
lycos.com/privacy/de 28.5 KB Flagged: medium risk
lycos.com/privacy/fr 29.8 KB Flagged: medium risk
lycos.com/privacy/# 25.3 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-WHVZFPX5 266 B No threats
lycos.com/contact 6.3 KB No threats
lycos.com/# 11.1 KB No threats
lycos.com/terms/es 10.2 KB No threats
lycos.com/terms/en 9.7 KB No threats
lycos.com/terms/ne 10.2 KB No threats
lycos.com/terms/it 10.1 KB No threats
lycos.com/terms/de 10.4 KB No threats
lycos.com/terms/fr 10.1 KB No threats
lycos.com/terms/# 9.7 KB No threats
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External Links & Domains
35
External Links
1 Flagged
1
Iframes
Clean
15
Referenced Domains
1 Flagged
2
Flagged Resources
Detected
optout.aboutads.infoFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
http://optout.aboutads.info/#!/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
http://optout.aboutads.info/#!/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/structure/data-protection-authorities/index_en.htmNot flagged
http://lycos.com/contactNot flagged
http://lycos.com/p/for-advertisersNot flagged
http://lycos.com/privacyNot flagged
http://lycos.com/privacy/deNot flagged
http://lycos.com/privacy/enNot flagged
http://lycos.com/privacy/esNot flagged
http://lycos.com/privacy/frNot flagged
http://lycos.com/privacy/itNot flagged
http://lycos.com/privacy/neNot flagged
http://lycos.com/public/theme/default/fa/css/all.min.cssNot flagged
http://lycos.com/public/theme/srch/css/bootstrap.min.cssNot flagged
http://lycos.com/public/theme/srch/css/style.cssNot flagged
http://lycos.com/termsNot flagged
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optout.aboutads.infoFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
allaboutdnt.comNot flagged
ec.europa.euNot flagged
fonts.googleapis.comNot flagged
fonts.gstatic.comNot flagged
googletagmanager.comNot flagged
lycos.comNot flagged
optout.networkadvertising.orgNot flagged
support.exacthosting.comNot flagged
tools.google.comNot flagged
webmail.lycos.comNot flagged
www.aboutads.infoNot flagged
www.allaboutcookies.orgNot flagged
www.google.comNot flagged
www.googletagmanager.comNot flagged
<iframe src%3D"https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id%3DGTM-WHVZFPX5" height%3D"0" width%3D"0" style%3D"display:none%3Bvisibility:hidden">Not flagged
lycos.com Overview

Description of lycos.com

Lycos.com appears to be the web presence of Lycos, a long-established internet brand historically associated with search and web services. Based on the homepage screenshot, the current site functions primarily as a simple search portal and informational landing page, with links to contact details, privacy terms, advertising information, and webmail-related resources.

The page also includes a notice stating that Exact Hosting has partnered with Lycos to provide a continuity path for customers affected by discontinued email services. Combined with the domain's long registration history and strong web popularity ranking, this suggests the site is an established legacy internet property that may now serve a narrower set of services than it did in earlier years.

Safety Assessment for lycos.com

Scan results are broadly reassuring at the time of this scan. The domain was not flagged by any of 91 security engines, and the checked blacklist and threat-database sources did not report active malicious listings. The domain is also very old and well-known, which generally reduces the likelihood of it being a throwaway phishing or malware-hosting site.

One malware scan did mark several privacy-policy pages and a referenced advertising opt-out link as suspicious using a generic heuristic label. Because this appears to be a single-source heuristic finding without corroboration from other security engines or blacklist databases, it may represent a low-confidence pattern match rather than confirmed harmful activity. Based on available scan data, no significant threats were detected at the time of this scan.

Technical Description

The site is using a valid Let's Encrypt SSL certificate with expiry in July 2026. It resolves through Cloudflare nameservers, DNSSEC appears to be unsigned, and the observed web server is Caddy hosted on infrastructure associated with Vultr in the United States.

From a security posture perspective, the main concern in the provided data is the isolated heuristic flag on privacy-related pages and an external ad-preferences URL. No confirmed malware detections, blacklist listings, or broader multi-engine consensus were present at the time of this scan.

HTTP Redirect Chain
No redirects detected - direct connection to destination
Website Insights
#1,900
Tranco Rank
Very Popular
Visitors >10M/mo
Category: Search Engine
Rank History (30 days)
Apr 20 May 30
1 cookie detected
Essential1
Analytics0
Advertising0
Social0
1 1st party cookie
0 3rd party (trackers)
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