Is blogspot.co.uk legit or a scam?
An official Google property serving as the UK-specific gateway for the Blogger platform with a clean security record and 16-year history.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
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 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.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows a fully-rendered, legitimate-looking Google search page with no visual indicators of a scam or malicious intent.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsPage layout matches the standard Google search interface
Includes legitimate Google services links like Gmail, Images, and Store
Features a standard Google Doodle and search buttons
Professional design quality with correct typography and spacing
No suspicious urgency tactics or fake trust badges visible
Brand Impersonation
medium confidenceThe page mentions or styles itself as Google, but is hosted on a domain that is not an official Google property.
MT Intelligence
The domain is a verified asset of Google LLC, registered over 6,100 days ago. Our analysis confirms it serves as a regional TLD for the Blogger service, which was acquired by Google in 2003. All security engines in our antivirus network report the site as clean, and the hosting IP has a perfect reputation score. While individual subdomains on this platform are sometimes abused by third parties to host spam, the main domain itself is a core piece of internet infrastructure. The visual layout and technical headers correctly align with official Google services.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for blogspot.co.uk, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- blogspot.co.uk is owned by Google and serves as the UK-specific TLD for the Blogger platform (acquired by Google in 2003).
- Registered on 2009-08-02 (matches the provided domain age of ~6171 days as of 2026), expires 2026-08-02.
- Blogger historically redirected country-specific subdomains like *.blogspot.co.uk to manage local content laws; all now primarily redirect to blogspot.com.
- The page at www.blogspot.co.uk displays legitimate Blogger promotional content about creating blogs, using Google AdSense, Google Analytics, and secure storage with Google.
- Individual blogspot.co.uk subdomains have been abused for spam, redirects to malware, and COVID-19 scams, but the apex domain itself is not reported as malicious.
- No specific scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews found for the exact domain blogspot.co.uk on major review or scam databases.
- Page title "Google" and brand reference are consistent with official Google property; no evidence of phishing login clone on the apex domain.
- Netskopeopen
"Blogspot Serves as a COVID-19 Scamming Hotspot... infrastructure hosted in Google’s Blogger service on blogspot.com"
- Redditopen
"Multiple sites are showing up as Blogger.com, but when you actually check the domains they’re all different (random *.blogspot.com sites). When you open them, they redirect to other websites and try to get you to download files, which feels"
Registered to Google LLC on 2009-08-02, expires 2026-08-02, status server transfer prohibited. Part of Google's Blogger platform.
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.
- Page impersonates Google on a non-official domain.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://blogspot.co.uk/
- 2200http://www.google.com/cross-domain
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 blogspot.co.uk and not a lookalike like b-logspot.co.uk.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 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 blogspot.co.uk. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- blogspot.co.uk passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. blogspot.co.uk presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WR2, expiring in 66 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- blogspot.co.uk is 16.9 years old, registered on 8/2/2009 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 blogspot.co.uk as clean.
- No. blogspot.co.uk is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- blogspot.co.uk resolves to an IP operated by Google LLC 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. blogspot.co.uk 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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