No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is feedburner.com legit or a scam?
Official Google-owned RSS service at a 22-year-old domain with clean scans and confirmed business history.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The domain feedburner.com has been registered for 8221 days and is tied directly to Google's infrastructure through redirects and subdomains. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned zero flags, while the hosting IP shows minimal abuse history. Evidence confirms Feedburner was founded in 2004, acquired by Google in 2007, and remains an active subsidiary service. Positive mentions on independent sites and Wikipedia align with its established role in RSS delivery. No scam families, clone indicators, or malicious patterns appear in the scan or research.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
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 clean, fully-rendered Google sign-in page for FeedBurner with no scam patterns or suspicious elements visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for feedburner.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain feedburner.com redirects to/associated with feedburner.google.com, official Google FeedBurner RSS service
- Founded February 2004 by Feedburner, Inc.; acquired by Google in 2007 for rumored $100M
- Service remains active as of 2026 but with reduced features (email subscriptions removed ~2021)
- Multiple Reddit threads discuss ongoing RSS proxy issues and deprecation but confirm legitimacy
- No scam, fraud, or malware reports found in searches for 'scam', 'complaint', or 'fake'
- Domain age ~22.5 years aligns with 2004 launch; owned by Google subsidiary
- Used by legitimate sites for RSS feed management and analytics
- blogaid.netopen
"Feedburner is the top RSS feed delivery service . It's owned by Google, it's free, and it offers feed reader and email subscription options."
- Wikipediaopen
"Feedburner, Inc . is a web feed management service primarily for monetizing RSS feeds, primarily by inserting targeted advertisements into them. It was founded in 2004 and acquired by Google in 2007."
Feedburner, Inc. founded 2004, acquired by Google June 2007; now subsidiary of Google; service launched Feb 29, 2004
Our research found two positive references confirming Feedburner as Google's RSS platform acquired in 2007. No scam, fraud, or malware reports appeared in any searches. Five complaints relate only to service changes, not fraudulent activity. Business records verify the original company and Google ownership.
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.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://feedburner.com/
- 2200http://feedburner.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 feedburner.com and not a lookalike like f-eedburner.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 feedburner.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- feedburner.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. feedburner.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WR2, expiring in 65 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- feedburner.com is 22.5 years old, registered on 12/2/2003 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 feedburner.com as clean.
- No. feedburner.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- feedburner.com 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.
- 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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