Before you start
- No analysis proves a link is safe: the index says “nothing suspicious found”, never “no risk”.
- The HTTPS padlock says nothing about a site’s honesty — nearly all phishing pages have one.
- The address is sent to the configured threat databases; your history, though, stays in this browser.
- Only those databases’ verdict is kept for six hours on our server, under a fingerprint of the address.
How to check a link in 3 steps
Paste the address
Copy the link from the message or email — without opening it — and paste it into the field. Shortened and redirected links are exactly what the tool is for.
Read the real destination
The tool follows the redirect chain from our server and shows the arrival address in large type. For a shortened link, that is often the single most useful thing to read.
Follow the advice
The verdict comes with what it establishes and what it does not, plus a plain instruction. The analyzed address is never clickable here — checking a link should not make you visit it.
Why use this link safety checker
- A shortened or redirected link doesn't say where it leads. The tool follows the chain in your place, from our server, and shows the final address — your device never opens the link.
- Every signal is shown with what it proves and what it doesn't. When too many checks fail, the verdict is held back — in both directions: the tool may neither reassure nor accuse on thin evidence.
- A silent registry doesn't become “suspicious domain”: missing information is marked missing, with its reason. Absence never counts against a site.
- Paste, read, decide. No account, no quota to unlock — and no clickable link back to the address you just analyzed.
Frequently asked questions
Can this tool guarantee a link is safe?
- No — and no tool can. It estimates from technical signals: a brand-new phishing site may not appear in any database yet, and a legitimate site can look unusual. That is why the verdict always carries its confidence level, and why the final prudence remains yours.
Why does it sometimes answer “caution” instead of a clear yes or no?
- When too little could be verified, the confidence caps the verdict in both directions: the tool has no right to reassure or to accuse on missing evidence. A held-back verdict is an honest answer, not a malfunction.
Does my device open the link?
- No. Redirects are followed from our server; your browser never touches the analyzed address. The results page never makes it clickable either — an accidental click on the very page meant to prevent one would be the worst possible irony.
What exactly does it check?
- The destination after all redirects, the domain's age in public registries, its certificate, resemblance to known brand names, structural warning signs in the address itself, and exact matches in threat databases such as Google Safe Browsing and URLhaus.
What if the registry publishes nothing about the domain?
- The information is marked unavailable and produces no signal at all. Many registries publish no dates; treating that silence as suspicious would unfairly penalize entire regions' domains. Absence never accuses.
Is the address I analyze stored?
- Verdicts are kept for about six hours under a salted fingerprint of the address — never the address itself — so threat databases aren't queried twice for the same link. Failed analyses are never cached.
Can it read pages built with JavaScript?
- The tool never executes a site's scripts: running a suspicious site's code on our server, at a stranger's request, would rebuild the very danger it exists to prevent. A page assembled entirely in JavaScript therefore stays partly invisible — and that limit is stated in the report.