No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is automattic.com legit or a scam?
Official Automattic corporate site running WordPress.com, Tumblr and other services, with a 22-year domain age and zero malicious detections.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page content directly matches the known Automattic company that owns WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce and several other major products. The domain is over 22 years old, registered through a major registrar without privacy protection, and the hosting IP shows minimal abuse history. No antivirus engines or browser blocklists flagged the site. Two independent review aggregator reviews label the company a scam over refund disputes, yet the evidence package confirms this is the genuine business with active US incorporation since around 2005. The site itself shows no signs of credential harvesting, malware distribution, or impersonation.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for automattic.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain automattic.com registered June 19, 2004; expires 2033; owned by Automattic, Inc. (US)
- Company operates WordPress.com, Tumblr, Beeper; headquartered San Francisco, CA
- Maintains dedicated page warning about job scams impersonating Automattic (never asks for money via Telegram/Skype)
- Trustpilot page shows multiple user reviews labeling the company a 'scam' over billing/refund disputes
- Active US corporation with legal filings and transparency reports published on transparency.automattic.com
- No evidence of the domain itself being a typosquat or clone of another brand
Automattic Inc., San Francisco, CA; incorporated ~2005; EIN references like 20-2602536
Our research found two independent review aggregator reviews labeling Automattic a scam due to unresolved refund disputes after years of service. The same sources confirm the domain belongs to the real Automattic Inc., a US corporation operating since approximately 2005 with active legal filings. No evidence of malware, phishing, or impersonation was located.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://automattic.com/
- 2200https://automattic.com/
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on automattic.com and not a lookalike like a-utomattic.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on automattic.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- automattic.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 84/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. automattic.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 40 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- automattic.com is 22.0 years old, registered on 6/19/2004 through MarkMonitor Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report automattic.com as clean.
- No. automattic.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- automattic.com resolves to an IP operated by Automattic, Inc in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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