No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is openx.com legit or a scam?
Established adtech company with 29-year domain history and real business registration, despite a 2021 FTC privacy fine.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual 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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The website presents as a professional, fully-rendered corporate landing page for a legitimate advertising technology company with no visual indicators of scamming or phishing.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProfessional corporate branding and high-quality custom graphics
Functional navigation menu with industry-standard categories
Consistent typography and modern UI design throughout the page
No presence of fake trust badges or urgency tactics
Legitimate B2B advertising technology service presentation
Intelligence
The domain openx.com was registered in 1996 and belongs to OpenX Technologies, Inc., a real company founded in 2007 with headquarters in Pasadena, California. Our antivirus network returned zero detections and the page shows professional corporate branding with no fake trust badges or urgency tactics. The evidence package confirms the company exists, maintains a dedicated page warning about recruitment scams impersonating them, and has industry reviews on TrustRadius and Glassdoor. A 2021 FTC settlement for COPPA violations shows regulatory history but does not indicate the site itself is fraudulent. Two scam reports appear in search results, yet both relate to external actors impersonating OpenX rather than the company operating a scam. The combination of long domain age, verified business registration, and clean technical signals supports a safe classification.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for openx.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain openx.com registered November 1996, age 29.7 years.
- OpenX Technologies, Inc. is a real adtech company founded 2007, HQ Pasadena CA, 200+ employees, offices in multiple countries.
- FTC settlement 2021: OpenX paid $2M for COPPA violations collecting children's personal data without consent.
- Company maintains dedicated page warning about job phishing/recruitment scams impersonating OpenX.
- User reviews on TrustRadius mention issues with customer support, account manager turnover, and fraudulent activity on the ad exchange.
- Company has privacy policies, DPF compliance, TRUSTe dispute resolution, and lists service providers for fraud prevention.
- No widespread consumer scam reports found on Trustpilot/ScamAdviser; reviews primarily from ad industry professionals on G2/TrustRadius/Glassdoor.
- FTC.govopen
"Advertising Platform OpenX Will Pay $2 Million for Collecting Personal Information from Children in Violation of Children's Privacy Law."
- OpenX.comopen
"OpenX is aware of scams involving our recruiting and hiring process. We want to make clear that OpenX will not extend job offers without conducting an interview ..."
OpenX Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Pasadena, CA; founded 2007; registered as data broker in California; BBB profile exists; Wikipedia and Crunchbase entries confirm private company status.
Our research found two scam-related items: an FTC press release about a $2 million settlement for collecting children's personal data without consent, and the company's own page warning about fake job offers. Two positive mentions appear on TrustRadius and Glassdoor, where users discuss fraud tools and overall employee experience. Business records confirm the company is registered and active in California. No consumer-facing scam reports were located on major review sites.
Domain Timeline
- Nov 8, 1996Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 30 years old today.
- Jul 8, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
openx.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedContact 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 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://openx.com/
- 2200https://www.openx.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
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 openx.com and not a lookalike like o-penx.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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Final Verdict
OpenX is a legitimate programmatic advertising platform. The 29-year-old domain and active US company registration outweigh the 2021 FTC privacy settlement and scattered customer-service complaints.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on openx.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- openx.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 70/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. openx.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE2, expiring in 55 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- openx.com is 29.7 years old, registered on 11/8/1996 through Tucows Domains 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 openx.com as clean.
- No. openx.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- openx.com resolves to an IP operated by WPEngine, 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 8, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around openx.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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