No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is cookingsubstitutes.net legit or a scam?
Three-year-old recipe blog offering cooking substitute guides with clean scans and no scam indicators.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a straightforward recipe and substitute blog with consistent content across multiple categories. Its domain has been registered for 1093 days through GoDaddy with valid Let's Encrypt SSL and a clean hosting IP. No antivirus detections, blocklist hits, or scam-family matches were recorded. The evidence package returned zero scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators. Missing contact information and lack of search indexing are the only minor notes, but they do not point to malicious intent on a content site of this type.
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 cookingsubstitutes.net, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain cookingsubstitutes.net has been active for 1093 days (~3 years)
- Site self-describes as 'Cooking Substitutes is dedicated to exploring suitable alternatives in recipes, providing helpful how-to guides, and sharing mouthwatering recipes'
- Site maintains dedicated pages including /privacy-policy/ (published Nov 27, 2025) and /affiliate-disclosure/
- No mentions of the domain in scam, complaint, or review contexts across general web or Reddit searches
- Domain name and content show no relation to typosquats or clones of major brands (e.g., no similarity to Roblox, PayPal, etc.)
- Limited external references; appears in isolated Facebook group posts linking to specific recipe/comparison articles on the site
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 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://cookingsubstitutes.net/
- 2200https://cookingsubstitutes.net/
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 cookingsubstitutes.net and not a lookalike like c-ookingsubstitutes.net.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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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 cookingsubstitutes.net. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- cookingsubstitutes.net passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 81/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. cookingsubstitutes.net presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 76 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- cookingsubstitutes.net is 3.0 years old, registered on 6/9/2023 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. cookingsubstitutes.net is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- cookingsubstitutes.net resolves to an IP operated by TerraTransit AG in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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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