scnsrc.me
Category: Piracy, Plagiarism, Scam, Illegal, Unethical
Description of scnsrc.me
scnsrc.me appears to be SceneSource, a long-running index-style website focused on release information for television, movies, games, music, software, and related digital media. Based on the homepage content and category labels, the site functions as a catalog of scene releases and provides references such as torrent and Usenet download pointers, release names, and metadata for newly published media content.
The domain name, page branding, and on-page navigation suggest it is operated as an independent media-release listing platform rather than an official studio, broadcaster, or software publisher site. Available classification data places it in a mixed area spanning news/games content and piracy-related or unethical-content labeling, which is consistent with a site that aggregates release information for copyrighted media.
Safety Assessment for scnsrc.me
Scan results were mixed at the time of this scan. Two out of 91 security engines flagged the domain with generic suspicious labels, while broader malware scanning reported no flagged files and major threat databases did not list the site for phishing, malware distribution, or other known content-based abuse. The domain is also relatively old, which can modestly reduce the likelihood of throwaway abuse compared with newly registered domains.
That said, the site appears to be associated with piracy-related content, and one scanner reported a generic malicious-object label tied to a challenge-platform URL on the same domain. Because that finding is generic and not strongly corroborated by broader blacklist data, it may reflect a low-confidence heuristic or an automated challenge page rather than confirmed malicious content. Based on available scan data, no significant threats were detected at the time of this scan, but the site's apparent connection to unauthorized media distribution may still present legal, privacy, or unwanted-content risks for visitors.
Technical Description
The domain uses a valid SSL/TLS certificate issued by a mainstream certificate authority, with expiry listed for 2026-09-03. It is hosted behind Cloudflare infrastructure on IP address 104.21.47.211, with Cloudflare nameservers and a web server identified as Cloudflare. This setup commonly provides CDN, caching, and traffic-filtering functions.
WHOIS data indicates the domain was created in 2011 and is registered through NAMECHEAP INC, with registration extending to 2027. DNSSEC appears to be unsigned, which means DNS responses may not benefit from DNSSEC validation. No major blacklist-database hits were reported at the time of this scan, and DNS-based blocklist checks were clean.
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