No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is markcarrington.dev legit or a scam?
Legitimate personal developer blog by Microsoft MVP Mark Carrington with a 7-year domain history and zero malicious signals.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents as a straightforward personal blog written by Mark Carrington, focused on SQL 4 CDS, Dataverse, and related Microsoft tools. The domain is over seven years old with valid SSL and zero abuse reports on its hosting IP. No scam families, login forms, or suspicious elements were detected in our sandbox or blocklist checks. Our research confirms direct links to his Microsoft MVP profile and role at the established UK company Data8 Ltd. The combination of age, clean technical signals, and verifiable professional identity gives high confidence this is a genuine site.
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 personal/professional site with no scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for markcarrington.dev, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Personal blog of Mark Carrington, Microsoft BizApps MVP (profile 5004203) and Chief Technologist at Data8 Ltd, Chester UK
- Covers developer topics on #MSDyn365, Dataverse, Azure, SQL 4 CDS XrmToolBox tool; GitHub MarkMpn
- Active in community: podcasts (XrmToolCast), LinkedIn, Sessionize speaker, Dynamics forums references since ~2018+
- Data8 Ltd: UK registered company, data quality solutions provider with Queen's Award mentions and G2 presence
- No scam, complaint, fraud, or negative mentions found across web searches including Reddit
- Domain referenced directly in professional profiles, tool descriptions, and community posts
Our research found this domain tied to Mark Carrington, a Microsoft BizApps MVP and Chief Technologist at Data8 Ltd, a UK-registered company. It appears in professional profiles, tool documentation, and community posts dating back to 2018 with no negative mentions on forums or review sites.
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
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 markcarrington.dev and not a lookalike like m-arkcarrington.dev.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Trust History
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 markcarrington.dev. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- markcarrington.dev passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 91/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. markcarrington.dev presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1, expiring in 179 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- markcarrington.dev is 7.2 years old, registered on 3/3/2019 through Name.com, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. markcarrington.dev is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- markcarrington.dev resolves to an IP operated by Microsoft Limited in GB (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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