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videolan.org
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Business details

Category
Utility and system software
Founded
2009
Sells
Digital products
Kind of seller
Charity or non-profit
Licensed trade
No licence normally needed
Domain age
26 years
Address
VideoLAN 18, rue Charcot 75013 Paris
Email address
Not found
Phone number
+33 9 51 11 20 20
Contact page
videolan.org/contact.html
Website
videolan.org
Social media

Customer reviews

SiteReviewsRating
Trustpilot12 reviews
Total12
Customer satisfactionNo rating found yetFrom independent reviews, weighed by their number
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Summary

Is videolan.org legit and trustworthy? Truth score 81 out of 100, high truth signals: 9 of 10 public checks clear, 1 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. Customer satisfaction: no rating found yet.

We read 3 of its pages: contact, terms and privacy. Its website address was registered 26 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. It has 12 reviews on Trustpilot. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find an email address.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

Positives

  • We read 3 of its pages · contact, terms and privacy.
  • Its website address was registered 26 years ago.
  • 12 reviews on Trustpilot.
  • No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Not found

  • Email address information was not found from our checks.

What they offer

VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS!
— videolan.org, in their own words
Getting help

videolan.org offers support and help through their help page, which can be found in the sources below.

How to check if videolan.org is legit

To check if videolan.org is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews, visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about videolan.org; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.

Who they are

Company detailsFounded in 2009 (Wikipedia)
Country
Where the company is based
Not stated with its address
Why we believe that
it publishes pages in 77 languages
From Wikipedia
Type (Wikipedia)
declared association
Industry
other voluntary membership organizations (France)
Founded
2009
SourcesWikipedia
Domain registrationIts website address was registered 26 years ago
  • Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else
Domain age
26 years
Domain transfer lock enabled
Yes
Website detailsWe read 3 of its pages: contact, terms and privacy
  • Company contact phone number is available
HTTPS enabled
Yes
Contact phone number found
+33 9 51 11 20 20
Contact page found
Contact page
What its pages say

Quoted word for word from videolan.org.

Ways to contact them
“If you want to contact us about the update warning, as pictured above, you may encounter on Windows platforms” Contact page

Reputation and track record

Customer reviews12 reviews on Trustpilot
PlatformRatingReviews
TrustpilotUnknown12
SmartCustomerNot found
G2Not found
CapterraNot found
Reviews.ioNot found
FeefoNot found
TrustindexNot found
GoogleNot checked
Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months
  • Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
  • It is among the 10,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)
Monthly visitor data
Popularity among Chrome users
top 100,000 sites
First known user traffic
Feb 2021 or earlier
Months with real traffic, of the last 24
24
Traffic pattern
sustained
Rank jump in the last 12 months
none
Rank drop in the last 12 months
none
Cloudflare Radar
Popularity across the internet
top 10,000 sites
Web history and authorityFound: wikipedia page
Wikipedia page
yes
SourcesWikipedia
Social presenceIt is on 4 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and X); the largest audience is 138,289 followers on Facebook
PlatformProfileAudience
FacebookProfile138,289 followers
InstagramProfile39 followers
XProfile45,900 followers
LinkedInProfile7,635 followers
YouTubeNot found
TikTokNot found
Social platforms with discovered profiles
facebook, instagram, linkedin, x
Social follower counts
191,863 followers in total

What data this site collects about you

What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data
Says you can ask it to delete your data.
“One can request deletion of their account, by contacting VideoLAN.”
Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Analytics

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Analytics
Counts your visits and what you look at.

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.
Malware or phishing threat status
None
Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company
Known data breaches found
0
Domain and email securityIts email is only partly protected: mail forged in its name is reported but not blocked
  • Its email identifies its real senders, but mail forged in its name is not blocked
Email
MX records
Yes
SPF record
Yes
DMARC record
Yes
DMARC policy
none
Certificate
Security certificate browsers warn about
No
Certificate issuer
Let's Encrypt
Certificate type
DV
Certificate expires
3 Dec 2026
Hosting
Nameservers
ns1.videolan.org
ns2.videolan.org
Address
213.36.253.2

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