Trusted Sources

What is a Trusted Source?

WOT incorporates automated scorecard references from various partners known as Trusted Sources. The Scorecard reference is added when the partner's database include an entry and when the partner's database removes an entry, WOT's scorecard removes the reference. Inclusion / removal is not immediate, it takes about 24 hours for entries to appear or disappear after WOT has received notification from the source provider.

How Trusted Sources influence the reputation of a website

When computing ratings, trusted sources that are added to a scorecard have a different weight according to their reliability. This weight is manually assigned and depends on how data is collected and verified by the trusted source itself. For example, trusted sources that are fully automated and have a large number of false positives are considered less reliable than trusted sources whose data are verified by real people.

Trusted Sources by category

The current list of trusted sources includes

Adult

Generic

Scorecard entries are identified with the "Appeared on an Adult listing".

Malware

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

CERT-GIB - visit (RU) | visit (EN)

DNS-BH - visit

Google Safe Browsing - visit

hpHosts - visit

Malware Domain List - visit

Malware Patrol - visit

Panda - visit

Yandex Safe Browsing - visit

Pharmaceutical

CIPA = visit

entries on the scorecard are harvested from CIPA's list of fraudulent sites

LegitScript.com - visit

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

• Why trust LegitScript classifications? Forum discussion a note from LegitScript

Phishing

Artists Against 419 - visit

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

AutoShun (snort list) - visit

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

PhishTank - visit

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

Google Safe Browsing - visit

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

Yandex Safe Browsing - visit

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

Spam

joewein.de LLC - visit

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly via the new listings blacklist.

SURBL - visit

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly via the new listings blacklist.

SSL Certificate

Symantec - visit

represents having a valid Symantec SSL Certificate

(formerly VeriSign)

Trust seal

TRUSTe - visit

represents having a valid TRUSTe seal

General reference

These may be found on the scorecard's comment section. They do not affect the site's reputation and are presented for general reference.

• Delicious : http://delicious.com/
• Google News : http://news.google.com/
• W3C | http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List

  Member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Removals

• spamcop.net has been eliminated from WOT's Trusted Sources: 13 April, 2012 by WOT Staff: Sami
• malwareurl.com has been eliminated from WOT's Trusted Sources for failure to respond to emails requesting domain removal. This action was performed by WOT Staff: Sami Revision as of 05:07, 30 September 2010