No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is backblaze.com legit or a scam?
Established 19-year-old cloud storage provider with clean technical signals and public company filings.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows a fully-rendered, professional website for Backblaze with no visual indicators of scamming, phishing, or malicious intent.
What our vision model saw
6 signalsProfessional layout with consistent branding and high-quality typography
Standard navigation menu with functional links to products, pricing, and resources
Presence of a legitimate cookie consent banner at the bottom of the page
No fake trust badges, urgency tactics, or suspicious pop-ups detected
Clear call-to-action buttons that align with the service being offered
Design matches the established visual identity of the Backblaze brand
Intelligence
The domain has been registered since April 2007 and belongs to Backblaze, Inc., a Delaware corporation listed on NASDAQ as BLZE. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP carries no abuse reports. The page renders a professional corporate site with product information, pricing, and navigation that matches the company's established brand. Independent sources confirm the company has operated continuously since 2007 with SEC filings and BBB accreditation. A handful of Reddit posts and one research report raise concerns about business practices and customer support, yet none indicate the domain is a fake or phishing site. Third-party abuse of Backblaze storage for hosting malicious content is noted, but the main domain itself remains legitimate.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for backblaze.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered April 2007 (19+ years old); company incorporated Delaware April 2007.
- Publicly traded NASDAQ: BLZE with ongoing SEC filings (S-1, 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K).
- BBB accredited since 2012; 10 complaints filed in last 3 years (some about billing cancellation, support, software issues).
- Trustpilot reviews exist (hundreds of reviews mentioned); mixed user feedback on Reddit including praise for unlimited backup and complaints about support/spam.
- Company maintains official help pages for reporting phishing content hosted on their servers (e.g., f00*.backblazeb2.com domains).
- 2025 reports and lawsuits allege 'sham accounting' and whistleblower issues (Morpheus Research, former employees); company has responded publicly.
- No widespread reports of the domain itself being a scam or clone; some third-party misuse of their storage service noted.
- Trustpilotopen
"Pros: very fast, doesn't hog CPU or memory like CrashPlan"
- Backblaze.comopen
"I was so thankful I had Backblaze after my apartment was recently broken into and a drive holding all my photos from a recent international photography trip was stolen."
- YouTube (Cloudwards)open
"it is a legitimate backup provider to ... since 2007 2008 ish so they are a really legitimate company a legitimate business"
Incorporated in Delaware in April 2007 as Backblaze, Inc.; publicly traded on NASDAQ as BLZE; principal offices in San Mateo, CA. Multiple SEC filings including S-1 and 10-K/10-Q.
Our research located three scam-related mentions: a Reddit post titled "BACKBLAZE IS A SCAM," a Morpheus Research report alleging accounting issues and insider activity, and another Reddit thread discussing third-party abuse of Backblaze storage. Positive mentions appear on an independent review aggregator praising backup speed and on YouTube confirming the company's long operating history. The company holds BBB accreditation since 2012 with ten complaints filed in recent years, primarily concerning billing, cancellation, and support responsiveness.
Domain Timeline
- Apr 2, 2007Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 19 years old today.
- Jul 8, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
backblaze.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedContact 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 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://backblaze.com/
- 2301https://backblaze.com/
- 3200https://www.backblaze.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
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 backblaze.com and not a lookalike like b-ackblaze.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
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
Backblaze.com is the official website of a 19-year-old publicly traded cloud storage company. The domain shows clean scans, long history, and active business registration. Some third-party complaints exist but no evidence the site itself is malicious.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on backblaze.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- backblaze.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 90/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. backblaze.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE2, expiring in 81 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- backblaze.com is 19.3 years old, registered on 4/2/2007 through Cloudflare, 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 backblaze.com as clean.
- No. backblaze.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- backblaze.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, 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.
- Yes. backblaze.com sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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