Hey does https://boinc.science/ belong to BOINC or is part of some scam?

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In reply to Petrctale's message of 11 Mar 2026:

Hey does https://boinc.science/ belong to BOINC or is part of some scam?

Looks suspicious...I suspect it's a SCAMMER!
According to [url

]https://whois.domaintools.com/boinc.science[/url]
Domain Name: boinc.science
Registry Domain ID: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namecheap.com
Registrar URL: http://www.namecheap.com
Updated Date: 2025-10-14T19:26:33Z
Creation Date: 2018-08-07T04:33:37Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2026-08-07T04:33:37Z
Registrar: NameCheap, Inc.
Registrar IANA ID: 1068
Registrar Abuse Contact Email:
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6613102107
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Registry Registrant ID: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Organization: Privacy service provided by Withheld for Privacy ehf
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Registrant State/Province: Capital Region
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Registrant Country: IS
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Registrant Email: Please query the RDDS service of the Registrar of Record identified in this
output for information on how to contact the Registrant, Admin, or Tech contact of the queried
domain name.

The website DOESN'T SUPPORT HTTPS AND HAS LOT OF OUTDATED INFORMATION.

And here is some more information about the website registration that makes it very suspicious:

Whois Lookup: Boinc.science
Whois Record for Boinc.science
 Domain Profile
Proximity Score	39	  
Email	[email protected] is associated with ~22,152,298 domains
  
Registrar	NameCheap, Inc.
IANA ID: 1068
URL: http://www.namecheap.com
Whois Server: whois.namecheap.com

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Registrar Status	clientTransferProhibited
Dates	2,773 days old
Created on 2018-08-07
Expires on 2026-08-07
Updated on 2025-10-14	  
Name Servers	DNS1.REGISTRAR-SERVERS.COM (has 10,903,442 domains)
DNS2.REGISTRAR-SERVERS.COM (has 10,903,442 domains)
  
IP Address	185(.)199(.)108(.)153 - 582,985 other sites hosted on this server
  
IP Location	United States - California - San Francisco - Github Inc.
ASN	United States AS54113 FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US (registered Oct 04, 2011)
Whois History	54 records have been archived since 2015-03-23	Whois History  
IP History	5 changes on 5 unique IP addresses over 3 years	  
Hosting History	11 changes on 8 unique name servers over 11 years

Note the websites Proximity Score of 39 indicates it has a 39% chance of being SUSPICIOUS.

Now it has a mismatched https certificate belonging to github.io
From what i can see it is an attempt to advertise gridcoin, world community grid, seti at home(which haven't had any tasks since 2020), LHC@home, Einstein@home, Climateprediction.net.

And a link to https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_7.12.1_windows_x86_64.exe from 2018