No threats detected
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Is goodseed.com legit or a scam?
GoodSeed is a legitimate 29-year-old Canadian Bible ministry with registered charity status, clean security profile, and positive community endorsements.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
GoodSeed operates as a registered charity under the Canada Revenue Agency (BN 876354283RR0001) with a documented physical address in Olds, Alberta and a US nonprofit entity. The domain was registered approximately 29 years ago (10,680 days), placing it among the oldest continuously-operated religious education sites. Our antivirus network flagged zero malicious detections across 91 engines, browser blocklists are clean, and the hosting IP has no abuse history. The site's content aligns with its stated mission: providing Bible teaching materials, training seminars, and evangelism resources under the 'Creation to the Cross' curriculum. Web research found three positive mentions from Facebook communities and Christian directories, with no scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews across independent sources. The organization maintains active social media presence, a blog, donation infrastructure, and is listed on Canadian charity databases.
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 goodseed.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain goodseed.com has been active for approximately 29 years (registered around 1997).
- Official site of GoodSeed International, a Canadian registered charity (CRA BN 876354283RR0001) providing Bible evangelism tools, training seminars, books, audiobooks, and videos using a 'Creation to the Cross' narrative approach.
- Physical address associated: PO Box 3704, Olds, Alberta, Canada T4H 1P5; phone +1 403-556-9955; also has US nonprofit entity (Goodseed USA Inc).
- Positive mentions on Facebook (3.5k likes, ministry page), Christian directories, and user recommendations in faith-based groups; no scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews found across searches.
- Security scans of related subdomain (dev.goodseed.com) report high trust scores (96/100 and 79/100), no malware/phishing flags, and note long registration history plus coherent religious branding.
- Founder linked to John R. Cross; organization maintains active blog, training resources, and donation pages; listed on CanadaHelps and CharityData.ca as advancing religion.
- Facebookopen
"GoodSeed, Olds AB. 3524 likes · 105 were here. GoodSeed provides tools and training to clearly communicate the central message of the Bible."
- Facebook groupopen
"Goodseed offers an incredible series of resources based on the individual’s starting worldview which can stand alone as pre/post salvation resources... Definitely worth checking out."
- thegc.orgopen
"GoodSeed Canada advocates for universal access to the core message of the Bible—the gospel of God's grace—believing that everyone should have the freedom to ..."
Registered charity with CRA (GOODSEED INTERNATIONAL, BN 876354283RR0001); also Goodseed USA Inc (EIN 59-3480436); based in Olds, AB (PO Box 3704, T4H 1P5); domain registered ~1997 (10680 days)
Our web research confirmed GoodSeed International as a registered Canadian charity (CRA BN 876354283RR0001) with physical headquarters in Olds, Alberta (PO Box 3704, T4H 1P5) and a US nonprofit entity (Goodseed USA Inc, EIN 59-3480436). The organization has maintained active operations for approximately 29 years. Three positive mentions were found: a Facebook ministry page with 3,500+ likes and 105 check-ins, a user recommendation in a faith-based community group praising GoodSeed's Bible teaching resources, and a listing on thegc.org (a Christian directory) describing the organization's mission. No scam reports, consumer complaints, or negative reviews were found across scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, or general web sources. The organization is listed on Canadian charity databases (CanadaHelps, CharityData.ca) and maintains transparent branding and contact infrastructure consistent with an established nonprofit ministry.
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.
- Links to 3 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://goodseed.com/
- 2200https://goodseed.com/
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.
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Reputation Sources
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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 goodseed.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- goodseed.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 88/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. goodseed.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 36 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- goodseed.com is 29.3 years old, registered on 3/11/1997 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report goodseed.com as clean.
- No. goodseed.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- goodseed.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.
- 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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