Highscore 46 · flagged Wednesday, September 9, 2026

backrubrh.fun

Appeared in the .fun zone on Wednesday, September 9, 2026; by the end of that day the census found active website. Full domain report

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What matched

TLD with a high abuse rate
matched: fun
+8
brand in page title, not in the name
matched: google
+20
form on a brand-styled page
matched: has_form
+18
Registrar
Name.com, Inc.
Nameserver provider
Nameservers
ns1.vercel-dns.com, ns2.vercel-dns.com
First-day state
active website
HTTP status
200
Page title
BackRub — The Search Engine Before Google
Has a form
yes
Brand echoed

Model opinions

First passlooks benignconfidence 85%· claude-haiku-4-5

The site is a historical tribute/fan site about BackRub, Google's predecessor search engine. The page title clarifies it is about 'The Search Engine Before Google' (not impersonating Google itself), contains properly sourced citations to Google's official history and Stanford research papers, and the search form is a functional historical recreation, not a credential harvesting form. The 'google' mention in the title is accurate historical context, not deceptive branding.

A model looked at the screenshot and page text and wrote what it thought. It can be wrong, and it is not a finding.

What the page looked like on Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Screenshot of backrubrh.fun taken by the zone census on 2026-09-09

Same data as JSON: /api/zone/domain/backrubrh.fun. This page is not indexed by search engines and does not link to the site it describes.