Highscore 46 · flagged Sunday, August 30, 2026

smartnewsso.xyz

Appeared in the .xyz zone on Sunday, August 30, 2026; by the end of that day the census found redirects elsewhere. Full domain report

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What matched

TLD with a high abuse rate
matched: xyz
+8
brand in page title, not in the name
matched: twitter
+20
form on a brand-styled page
matched: has_form
+18
Registrar
Spaceship, Inc.
Nameserver provider
Nameservers
ns1.zaaakodpass.com, ns2.zaaakodpass.com
First-day state
redirects elsewhere
HTTP status
200
Page title
Xquik: X (Twitter) Scraper API, MCP & Automation Tools
Has a form
yes
Brand echoed

Model opinions

First passlooks benignconfidence 92%· claude-haiku-4-5

smartnewsso.xyz is a redirect to xquik.com, a legitimate third-party X (Twitter) scraper API service that explicitly disclaims affiliation with X Corp. The destination site has its own brand identity, offers genuine developer tools with transparent pricing and documentation, and uses standard OAuth/account creation patterns—not credential phishing. The suspicious nameserver and domain name are a redirect setup, not impersonation by the intermediate domain.

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 Sunday, August 30, 2026

Screenshot of smartnewsso.xyz taken by the zone census on 2026-08-30

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