Use cases
Who this is actually for
LegitSonar was built for the thirty seconds between seeing a link and deciding whether to trust it. That moment happens to a shopper, a support agent and a moderator in almost the same way — what changes is how many times a day.
Once, and it matters
You are deciding about your own money
Two moments that happen a handful of times a year, and cost real money when they go wrong. Nothing here needs an account, a card or an app.
Before you buy
An advert led you to a shop you have never heard of, and the price is better than it should be.
- Check the domain age before entering a card number — most fraudulent shops are weeks old.
- See whether anyone is named as the owner, and whether a real company is behind it.
- Read the findings rather than the score: "registered three weeks ago" is a sentence you can act on.
Helping someone else
A relative forwards you a message and asks whether it is genuine.
- Send them the report rather than an opinion — it explains itself.
- The verdict is one sentence in plain language, not a technical readout.
- No account and no app to install for either of you.
Many times a day
You are deciding on someone else's behalf
The same assessment, but it has to arrive fast, be citable afterwards, and survive somebody asking why. That is what the API, the PDF and the dated record are for.
Support and trust teams
A customer forwards a link and asks whether it is really from you.
- Get a dated, sourced assessment in seconds instead of a judgement call.
- Attach the PDF to the ticket so the reasoning survives the conversation.
- Re-run the analysis when a site changes — the record updates and keeps its history.
Moderation and marketplaces
A seller posts a link, and you have minutes to decide whether it stays up.
- Screen a domain against blocklists, registration age and infrastructure in one request.
- Use the API to score links as they are posted rather than after they are reported.
- Point at the report when you remove something, so the decision can be reviewed.
Research and journalism
You are looking at a network of sites and need to describe it precisely.
- Query 607,297 assessed domains by score, ending and age.
- See risk concentration by top-level domain, with the counts behind every claim.
- Cite a report by URL and date — it is a snapshot, and it says so.
Protecting your own brand
Someone has registered a domain that looks almost like yours.
- Search for the patterns around your name and see what has been registered.
- Check what a lookalike is scoring, and what signals it is failing.
- Keep the dated report for the registrar complaint.
None of these quite fit?
The tool is the same either way — a domain in, an explained score out. Tell us what you are using it for and it may shape what gets built next.