Security Report: bit.ly - Analysis

Summary

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Scan result: counts, verdicts, details, IPs, technologies, hashes/api/v1/result/aaac0b39-ec86-4220-865f-d03d2c33d302 Domain and IP registration (RDAP)/api/v1/rdap/aaac0b39-ec86-4220-865f-d03d2c33d302 Certificate Transparency/api/v1/ct/graduateprograms.brown.edu How often this domain was scanned/api/v1/domain/stats/bit.ly Scan history for this domain/api/v1/domain/history/bit.ly?limit=15

This website contacted 41 IPs in 4 countries across 44 domains to perform 182 HTTP transactions. The main domain is bit.ly and was registered 5 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://bit.ly/4fUqsbY?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=2098f339f2-AdmissionsInsider_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-2098f339f2-238016430&mc_cid=2098f339f2&mc_eid=UNIQID

Effective URL:

https://graduateprograms.brown.edu/graduate-program/organizational-lea...

Redirected

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #7,359 of the top 1 million websitesTop 10K Site

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 92%

Risk Score

Marketing link that redirects to Brown University's official graduate programs site; first-party inquiry form with no password or payment fields and no threat-intel, YARA or IDS hits.

Safety Factors (5)

Final destination is the official brown.edu domain, not the bit.ly entry host

Cross-domain redirect is an ordinary marketing/email-campaign shortener link, explicitly not a risk signal

No credential, password or payment fields anywhere on the page

No Indicators of Compromise, malware patterns, IDS alerts or known phishing kits

Content is coherent, substantive higher-education program material with contact and mailing address details

Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Organizational Leadership (Online) | Graduate Programs | Brown University

Scan Type

public

Favicon Hash

MMH3: 1061537771

MD5: 16768b0f7743a279f5b50cdab84fd404

Domain Name Analysis

Within the Libyan country-code top-level domain (.ly), 'bit.ly' is registered with no subdomain. Its registrable label 'bit' stretches across 3 characters containing 1 vowel alongside two consonants. It segments into 1 word: bit. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Page Load Overview

6.20s

Total Load Time

3.6 MB

Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English

Code: en

Confidence:80%

Script:Latin

Direction:ltr

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en

Text Length:16,582 chars

Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

education45% confidence

Type: spa

Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

education

45%

adult content

27%

Detected Features

Domain & IP Information

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4	23.194.190.166Akamai · CDN	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS20940Akamai International B.V.
4	146.75.121.140Fastly · CDN	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS54113Fastly, Inc.
182	41	-	-