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Ashley Madison

Adult dating ashleymadison.com

Operated by Ruby Life Inc. (Toronto), formerly Avid Life Media.
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Traffic rank

30,703
Tranco rank (2026-08-19)
31,295
51 days ago
rank trend (lower = better)

Source: Tranco list (tranco-list.eu), daily.

Trust & safety

2/7
accountability signals
2002
first seen online (Wayback)
030811934
accounts exposed in breaches
Age verification 2257 notice RTA label DMCA agent Removal route Ownership disclosed Malware-clean

Known data breach: AshleyMadison (2015). Source: Have I Been Pwned. Full scorecard →

Profile

Launched
2001
Headquarters
CA
Founder(s)
Darren J. Morgenstern

Facts from Wikipedia. Advertised figures are the site’s own, as displayed.

Ownership

Reported parent
ruby Corp
HQ country
CA

Ownership is drawn from public company records and reporting; see the Companies section for sources.

Infrastructure

Registrar
SafeNames Ltd.
Registered
2001-11-13
Nameserver
cloudflare.com
Hosting ASN
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc. (AS13335)
CDN
Cloudflare
TLS issuer
Google Trust Services
Server header
cloudflare
2257 notice on homepage
no
RTA label
no
Age-verification vendor
none detected
First archived
2002-03-29
Certificates logged
Measured
2026-08-16

Measured from public RDAP, the TLS handshake, DNS, HTTP response headers, certificate transparency logs (crt.sh) and the Internet Archive. Marker fields (2257 / RTA / AV vendor) test for specific strings on the homepage and read “unknown” when the page could not be fetched.

Third-party tech

Services detected in the rendered homepage. Trackers and ad networks see your visit; payment processors reveal who handles the money.

Trackers & analytics
Google Analytics

Measured by Adult Web Census by rendering the homepage; substring detection of known service domains.

Safety

No malware/phishing flags

Google Safe Browsing
clean
VirusTotal
59 engines say clean
URLhaus (abuse.ch)
not listed

Sources: Google Safe Browsing, VirusTotal, URLhaus. As of 2026-08-16.

Reputation

Trustpilot
1.1 / 5 (636 reviews) · view

Measured availability

What the site actually served when fetched from each location (datacenter egress, 18/18 locations reachable). “Age verification” = an age-check wall; “blocked / withdrawn” = an explicit location notice; “not measurable” = the site refused our IP there (not counted as blocking).

LocationResultEvidence
BrazilReachable
CanadaReachable
GermanyReachable
SpainReachable
FranceReachable
United KingdomReachable
ItalyReachable
NetherlandsReachable
PolandReachable
TurkeyReachable
CaliforniaReachable
FloridaReachable
North CarolinaReachable
New JerseyReachable
New YorkReachable
TexasReachable
UtahReachable
VirginiaReachable

Measured by Adult Web Census through datacenter proxies; structural detection only.

Network blocking (OONI)

CountryConfirmedAnomalousMeasurements
Singapore747
Singapore747
Singapore747
Singapore747
Singapore544
Singapore544
Singapore342
Singapore241

Source: OONI aggregation API, 30-day window. Confirmed = block fingerprinted; anomalous = probable but unconfirmed.