SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

Security Review

Is bazaarvoice.com legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 83/100

Established 21-year-old UGC and review platform with clean scans and active US business registration.

bazaarvoice.comScanned 2h ago
0
Trust score
SAFE
Heuristics 85·MT 82
Category tags
businessreview-platform90% MT confidence
View density

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
21 years old
Registered Apr 20, 2005
MT Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 90% confidence

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust82/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The domain has existed since 2003 and belongs to a company incorporated in Delaware in 2005 with headquarters in Austin, Texas. Antivirus scans returned zero flags and the page shows a professional corporate site offering ratings, reviews, and syndication services. Business records confirm active status. independent review aggregator lists 68 reviews averaging 1.7 stars with complaints focused on pricing and moderation rather than outright fraud. The company itself publishes warnings about separate impersonator domains attempting to misuse its name.
Full dossier
Analysis complete

Page Content

Professional corporate site describing UGC tools for ratings, reviews, visual content, and syndication aimed at retailers and brands. Contact details and social links are present though no direct email appears on the homepage.

Infrastructure

Valid SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt. Hosting IP carries a moderate abuse score but no active malware or phishing detections from our engines. External scripts load from known CDNs and social platforms.

Domain History

Registered 7716 days ago through MarkMonitor with no privacy protection. Company records show incorporation in 2005 and a 2012 NASDAQ listing before going private in 2018.

Web Reputation

Independent review sites show mixed feedback with service complaints but no widespread scam reports. The operator maintains an advisory about fraudulent copycat sites using similar names.

Risk Factors
2
  • independent review aggregator rating of 1.7/5 from 68 reviews citing pricing and moderation issues.
  • Hosting IP has 6 abuse reports and a 25/100 abuse score.
Positive Signals
4
  • Domain registered 7716 days ago with active US business registration since 2005.
  • Zero detections across 92 antivirus engines and clean browser blocklist status.
  • Professional landing page with no scam patterns or fake urgency elements.
  • Company publishes public warnings about impersonator domains.
AI Recommendation
The site belongs to a legitimate established business. Review recent customer feedback on independent sites before signing contracts, as service complaints are common.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

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bazaarvoice.com

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Visual Screenshot 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.

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/ 100
No visual red flags

No scam visual patterns detected

Clean, professional landing page for a UGC/content platform with modern design and no visible scam patterns or trust indicators.

Visual risk0/100

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for bazaarvoice.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Domain age
21 yrs
Registered Apr 2005
Business registration
Active · United States
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
2 scam reports · 68 complaints · 2 positive
Key findings
7 headline facts from open-web research
  • - Domain age 7716 days (~21 years); company founded 2005 in Austin, Texas (Wikipedia, LinkedIn, SEC filings)
  • - Provides UGC platform for ratings/reviews/syndication used by 13,000+ brands/retailers (official site)
  • - Issues official advisory warning about fraudulent impersonator site bazaarvoice-data.cfd (May 2026 blog post)
  • - Trustpilot: 1.7/5 rating from 68 reviews with complaints on pricing, moderation, and service (Trustpilot)
  • - Review request emails often sent via bazaarvoice-cgc.com subdomains for retailers like Dell, Wyze, Lenovo (multiple Reddit/forums)
  • - Was NASDAQ-listed (IPO 2012), taken private 2018 by Marlin Equity Partners (Wikipedia)
  • - Moderates ~4.6M reviews/72hrs and blocks >100k fraudulent reviews/month (official docs)
Scam reports (2)
Direct quotes from public scam databases, forums, and news.
  • Trustpilotopen

    "Their domain is being used by scammers. Avoid."

  • Trustpilotopen

    "Bad company that manipulates reviews for Canadian tire and others. They should be yanked from the web."

Positive reviews (2)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • Bazaarvoice.comopen

    "I think Bazaarvoice is a great solution. It's proven its worth in supporting discovery, engagement, conversion, and increasing revenue for Le Col."

  • Gartner Peer Insightsopen

    "Overall, my team is very pleased with our experience with the Bazaarvoice platform. We primarily use the system for product reviews and syndication to our major retailers."

Business registration
Status: active · United States

Incorporated in Delaware May 2005; HQ at 10901 Stonelake Blvd, Austin, TX 78759; privately held

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

independent review aggregator shows 68 total reviews averaging 1.7 stars with complaints about pricing, moderation, and service quality. Two reviews specifically mention scammers misusing the domain. Positive feedback exists on Gartner Peer Insights and the company site itself. Official records confirm the business was incorporated in Delaware in May 2005 and remains active with headquarters in Austin, Texas. The operator has issued public warnings about separate impersonator sites.

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious63Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not in pass
ESET-NOD32
Not in pass
Avira
Not in pass
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Clean
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

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.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers355-4709-9618-5661
Postal addressPresent
Linked social profiles4
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • Phone number listed (355-4709-9618-5661).
  • Postal address visible on the page.
  • Links to 4 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age21 years old
RegistrarMarkMonitor Inc.
RegisteredApr 20, 2005
ExpiresApr 20, 2027
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · R13
ExpiresJul 15, 2026 (38d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingPantheon
Server locationUS
Web servernginx
Platform / CMSWPML ver:4.9.3 stt:1,4,3;

Redirect Chain

Hops
2
Cross-domain
Yes
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://bazaarvoice.com/
  • 2301https://bazaarvoice.com/
  • 3200https://www.bazaarvoice.com/cross-domain

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score25%
Reports on file6
ISPPantheon
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

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 bazaarvoice.com and not a lookalike like b-azaarvoice.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.

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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
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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 bazaarvoice.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·bazaarvoice.com
SAFE

Bazaarvoice.com is the official site of a long-established user-generated content platform. The domain is over 21 years old with valid business registration in the US and no malware detections. Some customer complaints exist around service and pricing.

The site belongs to a legitimate established business. Review recent customer feedback on independent sites before signing contracts, as service complaints are common.

AV engines
92
MT passes
2
Net signals
1
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