Is keykobo.com safe?
http://keykobo.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (60 of 91 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Key Kobo is an established keycap maker's own Shopify storefront, but its pages show no contact details
Key Kobo (keykobo.com) presents itself as a mechanical keyboard keycap manufacturer selling its own keycap sets directly, with product pages carrying 'Shop Now' buttons and a newsletter signup form. Independent hobby-community sources describe Keykobo as a keycap manufacturer whose sets are run as group buys through retailers in the US, UK, EU, Canada, Korea, Japan, Singapore and China, and one forum thread states a set is officially on sale on keykobo.com. The domain is over five years old, the connection is encrypted, and no threat warning or hosting abuse signal was found. The main weakness is transparency: the captured page shows no contact email, phone number or postal address, so a buyer has no direct way to reach the operator before ordering. Nothing in the evidence shows a scam mechanism, so this is a low-risk rather than safe rating.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 82/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 1 finding pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- MinorThe captured page shows no direct contact email, no phone number and no postal address, leaving buyers without a published support channel.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsIndependent hobby-community sources describe Keykobo as a keycap manufacturer whose sets are run as group buys through retailers in multiple countries, and a forum thread states a set is officially on sale on keykobo.com.
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 2024 days old, consistent with a long-running operation.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, and the hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across 14 saved reports.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Key Kobo (keykobo.com) presents itself as a mechanical keyboard keycap manufacturer selling its own keycap sets directly, with product pages carrying 'Shop Now' buttons and a newsletter signup form. Independent hobby-community sources describe Keykobo as a keycap manufacturer whose sets are run as group buys through retailers in the US, UK, EU, Canada, Korea, Japan, Singapore and China, and one forum thread states a set is officially on sale on keykobo.com. The domain is over five years old, the connection is encrypted, and no threat warning or hosting abuse signal was found. The main weakness is transparency: the captured page shows no contact email, phone number or postal address, so a buyer has no direct way to reach the operator before ordering. Nothing in the evidence shows a scam mechanism, so this is a low-risk rather than safe rating.
A recognised keycap maker with its own storefront
Independent hobby-community material describes Keykobo, also written Key Kobo, as a keycap manufacturer whose sets are run as group buys through retailers in the US, UK, EU, Canada, Korea, Japan, Singapore and China. A separate forum thread states that a set is officially on sale on keykobo.com. That is external corroboration that the domain belongs to a real manufacturer in this niche rather than an anonymous copycat storefront.
The registrable domain is 2024 days old, which is consistent with a business that has been operating for several years rather than a freshly created shop. The captured page also shows the storefront is built on Shopify, a mainstream hosted e-commerce platform, and the site's own banner advertises free shipping on orders over $200.
Clean technical checks, thin operator disclosure
Technically the site is unremarkable in a good way: the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, and the hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across 14 saved reports. There is no sign of malware, phishing or a malicious redirect in the evidence reviewed.
The operator-side picture is weaker. The captured page shows no direct contact email, no phone number and no postal address, so a customer cannot easily reach a human before or after a purchase. That is a common but suboptimal practice for an e-commerce store, and it is the main reason this site is rated low risk rather than safe; it is a transparency gap, not evidence of fraud.
What happens when a visitor buys
A visitor arriving on the storefront sees product pages with 'Shop Now' and 'shop now' buttons that lead to direct purchases of keycap sets on the same domain. The commercial path stays on keykobo.com; the only cross-site element observed is the Shopify platform credit in the page footer, which is a hosting attribution rather than a redirect to an unknown seller.
The site also runs a newsletter signup form asking for an email address, and a modal invites visitors to complete a form to register. These are ordinary marketing and account-creation flows, but because the page lists no contact email, phone or address, a buyer who needs support has no published channel to use.
Why the score is 82
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 91
No detectionsSaved analysis from September 24, 2026 - stale
No detections across 60 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 31 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 91
All 91 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiShopping
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekershopping
- Googleretail
- Sophosonline shopping
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
Enjoy free shipping on all orders over $200! Join us Complete the form to register.
What the captured page showed
2 observations- 01
Enjoy free shipping on all orders over $200!
- 02
Join us Complete the form to register.
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Key Kobo
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- Terms/pages/terms-conditionsRead
- Refund / returns policy/pages/return-policyRead
- Shipping policy/pages/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contact-usRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Key Kobo
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The captured page shows no direct contact email, no phone number and no postal address, leaving buyers without a published support channel.
- 02The registrable domain is 2024 days old, consistent with a long-running operation.
- 03The saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, and the hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across 14 saved reports.
Web research findings
Independent findings for keykobo.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainkeykobo.com
- Redirects towww.keykobo.com
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencescdn.shopify.com · fonts.shopifycdn.com
Domain Timeline
- Apr 7, 2021Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 5 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 22, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
keykobo.com has operated for years and this review found no material threat — a long track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
- No phone number listed on the captured page.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for www.keykobo.com.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://keykobo.com/
- 2301https://keykobo.com/
- 3200https://www.keykobo.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The captured page shows no direct contact email, no phone number and no postal address, leaving buyers without a published support channel.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 91 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Sep 24, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 2 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 91 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Sep 24, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result2 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is keykobo.com a scam or is it safe?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Key Kobo is an established keycap maker's own Shopify storefront, but its pages show no contact details
Key Kobo (keykobo.com) presents itself as a mechanical keyboard keycap manufacturer selling its own keycap sets directly, with product pages carrying 'Shop Now' buttons and a newsletter signup form. Independent hobby-community sources describe Keykobo as a keycap manufacturer whose sets are run as group buys through retailers in the US, UK, EU, Canada, Korea, Japan, Singapore and China, and one forum thread states a set is officially on sale on keykobo.com. The domain is over five years old, the connection is encrypted, and no threat warning or hosting abuse signal was found. The main weakness is transparency: the captured page shows no contact email, phone number or postal address, so a buyer has no direct way to reach the operator before ordering. Nothing in the evidence shows a scam mechanism, so this is a low-risk rather than safe rating.
09 · Community
Community
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