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youtube.com

Category: Mixed Content, Potentially Adult, Video, Multimedia

Scanned: May 11, 2026, 04:22 PM UTC · First seen: Apr 23, 2026 · Threat Engines: 0 / 92 · Times Scanned: 9
93 / 100 Trust Score Based on scan findings at the time of analysis
No Threats Found
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Screenshot of youtube.com Captured May 11, 2026
https://youtube.com
Screenshot of youtube.com
21 years
Extremely Popular - #8 Tranco rank (>100M monthly visitors)
Not listed (92 checked)
✓ Valid (TLS)
Google LLC
Mountain View, United States
ESF
Unknown
172.217.22.110
Domain & WHOIS Information
Registrar Markmonitor Inc.
Registered February 15, 2005
Expires February 15, 2027
Name Servers ns1.google.com
DNSSEC Unsigned
Hosting Google LLC
Reputation & Threat Check 92 security engines checked
File Scan Summary Powered by Quttera Engine
25 files scanned
No threats
24
Low Risk
0
Medium Risk
1
High Risk
0
No threats Low Risk Medium Risk High Risk
www.youtube.com/ads/# 294 B Flagged: medium risk
www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id= 1.5 KB No threats
www.youtube.com/musicpremium 732.3 KB No threats
www.youtube.com/opensearch?locale=de_DE 542 B No threats
www.youtube.com/new 675.7 KB No threats
www.youtube.com/manifest.webmanifest 1.6 KB No threats
www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks?utm_campaign=ytgen&utm_source=ythp&utm_medium=LeftNav&utm_content=txt&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fhowyoutubeworks%3Futm_source%3Dythp%26utm_medium%3DLeftNav%26utm_campaign%3Dytgen 43.9 KB No threats
www.youtube.com/supported_browsers?next_url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2f 5.7 KB No threats
www.youtube.com/# 1.3 MB No threats
www.youtube.com/supported_browsers?next_url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2f.http-redirect 142 B No threats
accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=youtube&uilel=3&passive=true&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fsignin%3Faction_handle_signin%3Dtrue%26app%3Ddesktop%26hl%3Dde%26next%3D%252Fsignin_passive%26feature%3Dpassive&hl=de 1.2 MB No threats
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External Links & Domains
721
External Links
All Clean
4
Iframes
Clean
71
Referenced Domains
All Clean
0
Flagged Resources
None Detected
http://youtube.com/../kids/familyfriendly-videos/Not flagged
http://youtube.com/../kids/fun-everyscreen/Not flagged
http://youtube.com/../kids/parent-resources/Not flagged
http://youtube.com/../kids/safer-experience/Not flagged
http://youtube.com/?hl%3DdeNot flagged
http://youtube.com/?lfhs%3D2Not flagged
http://youtube.com/_/identitypoliciesui/manifest.jsonNot flagged
http://youtube.com/creators/Not flagged
http://youtube.com/creators/how-things-work/building-community/Not flagged
http://youtube.com/creators/how-things-work/content-creation-strategy/Not flagged
http://youtube.com/creators/how-things-work/get-involved/Not flagged
http://youtube.com/creators/how-things-work/getting-started/Not flagged
http://youtube.com/creators/how-things-work/policies-guidelines/Not flagged
http://youtube.com/creators/how-things-work/video-monetization/Not flagged
http://youtube.com/creators/partner-program/Not flagged
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Showing first 500 of 721 entries.
about.googleNot flagged
about.youtubeNot flagged
accounts.google.comNot flagged
ajax.googleapis.comNot flagged
artists.youtubeNot flagged
artists.youtube.comNot flagged
assistant.google.comNot flagged
blog.googleNot flagged
blog.youtubeNot flagged
brand.youtubeNot flagged
business.google.comNot flagged
cloud.google.comNot flagged
developers.google.comNot flagged
eventsonair.withyoutube.comNot flagged
families.google.comNot flagged
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<iframe src%3D"https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id%3DGTM-K7VCRCF" height%3D"0" width%3D"0" style%3D"display: none%3B visibility: hidden" >Not flagged
<iframe name%3D"passive_signin" src%3D"https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service%3Dyoutube&amp%3Builel%3D3&amp%3Bpassive%3Dtrue&amp%3Bcontinue%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fsignin%3Faction_handle_signin%3Dtrue%26app%3Ddesktop%26hl%3Dde%26next%3D%252Fsignin_passive%26feature%3Dpassive&amp%3Bhl%3Dde" style%3D"display: none">Not flagged
<iframe src%3D"//www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id%3DUA-150549451-1" height%3D"0" width%3D"0" style%3D"display:none%3Bvisibility:hidden">Not flagged
<iframe src%3D"https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id%3DGTM-5WBWB7Z" height%3D"0" width%3D"0" style%3D"display:none%3Bvisibility:hidden">Not flagged
youtube.com Overview

Description of youtube.com

YouTube appears to be a major video-hosting and multimedia platform where users can watch, upload, share, and monetize video content. The page metadata and screenshot indicate standard YouTube functionality such as search, subscriptions, creator resources, shopping integrations, and family-oriented sections like YouTube Kids. Multiple web-classification sources broadly place the site in video, multimedia, and social web categories.

Based on the domain, branding, and infrastructure references, the service appears to be operated within the Google ecosystem. The domain is long-established, highly ranked in global traffic data, and connected to numerous related Google and YouTube properties, which is consistent with a large mainstream consumer platform rather than a newly created or obscure site.

Safety Assessment for youtube.com

The scan results are broadly reassuring at the time of this scan. The domain was not flagged by any of 92 security engines, and the checked blacklist and threat-database entries were reported clean. The domain is also more than 21 years old and has a very high traffic ranking, both of which are consistent with a well-established web platform.

One malware scan did mark a single path related to ads as "suspicious," but no malware family was named, no external links or referenced domains were flagged, and this signal was not corroborated by the broader engine consensus or blacklist checks. In context, this appears to be a low-confidence heuristic finding rather than strong evidence of active malicious behavior.

Because YouTube hosts user-generated content, some classification providers label it as mixed content or potentially adult, which reflects the variety of material that may be accessible on the platform rather than a direct site-level threat indicator. Based on available scan data, no significant threats were detected at the time of this scan.

Technical Description

The site presented a valid SSL/TLS certificate issued by Google Trust Services, with expiration in July 2026. It is hosted on Google LLC infrastructure in the United States, uses Google-operated nameservers, and the web server was identified as ESF. These details are consistent with a large-scale production deployment.

DNSSEC appears to be unsigned, which is not uncommon but means DNS responses may not benefit from that additional integrity layer. Aside from the single low-confidence heuristic flag on an ads-related path, the technical scan did not show flagged external links, flagged referenced domains, or blacklist hits at the time of this scan.

HTTP Redirect Chain
301 https://youtube.com/
200 https://www.youtube.com/
Website Insights
#8
Tranco Rank
Extremely Popular
Visitors >100M/mo
Category: Mixed Content, Potentially Adult, Video, Multimedia
Rank History (30 days)
Mar 30 May 10
7 cookies detected
Essential7
Analytics0
Advertising0
Social0
7 1st party cookies
0 3rd party (trackers)
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