In addition to viruses and malware, phishing, scams, bad online shopping experiences, and untrustworthy content are becoming increasingly widespread threats on the web. They can only be identified by human experience.

WOT widens the scope of Web safety from purely technical security to helping people find sites that they can actually trust. Based on user ratings and trusted technical sources, WOT calculates the reputation for websites, using traffic light-style icons displayed via search results, social media platforms, webmail, and many popular sites. Green indicates a trustworthy site, yellow tells users that they should be cautious, while red indicates a potentially dangerous site.

Launched in 2006 as a free download, WOT rapidly became popular among web users all over the world. By spring 2012, it has been downloaded over 30 million times and the global WOT user community has rated over 36 million websites, making it the world’s leading community-based safe surfing tool.

Take a tour to learn more about how WOT works.

Read also how companies like Facebook and Mail.ru use the WOT reputation database to protect their users, and how WOT Trust Seals help website owners build trust towards their users.

Contacting WOT

The easiest way to contact WOT is to click on a relevant link in the right-hand column. We're interested in your comments and ideas and like hearing from you. Share your thoughts and suggestions concerning the community and services, or simply submit a feature request. To talk with other WOT community members, please use our forum.

If you are a site owner and want to claim your site, please visit your My sites page to add your domain.

The company behind WOT is WOT Services Ltd, based in Helsinki, Finland. Our postal address is:

WOT Services Oy
Runeberginkatu 43 B 9
00100 Helsinki
Finland http://www.mywot.com/

Business ID: 2046987-7, VAT registration number: FI20469877

WOT carries a Key Flag, issued by the Association for Finnish Work, as a symbol of its Finnish roots.