No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is oreilly.com legit or a scam?
Official O'Reilly Media training site with a 29-year-old domain, clean reputation, and no scam indicators.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page content directly matches O'Reilly Media's known offerings in technology training, courses, and certifications. The domain age of 10591 days aligns with a company founded in 1978 and still operating today. Hosting IP shows zero abuse reports and browser blocklists returned clean. Evidence confirms matching business registration in the United States with positive mentions on independent review sites and no scam reports. No login forms, countdowns, or suspicious scripts were detected that would indicate phishing or data harvesting.
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 oreilly.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain oreilly.com is the official website of O'Reilly Media, Inc., a technology and business training/publishing company established in 1978.
- Company address listed: 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA; support@oreilly.com and phone numbers provided on site.
- Wikipedia confirms official website www.oreilly.com; LinkedIn and Crunchbase list as active private company with 500+ employees.
- No direct scam reports or complaints found targeting oreilly.com itself in searches; unrelated scam mentions refer to O'Reilly Auto Parts (oreillyauto.com).
- Trustpilot has 6 reviews averaging 3.6/5 with both positive and minor negative feedback on platform features.
- Domain age of 10591 days aligns with long-established legitimate business; registered via GoDaddy per one scan result.
- Trustpilotopen
"I love the live courses on cutting-edge topics. Also, the online platform and the app have improved a lot over the past few years, now offering the highly requested feature of earning skill badges."
- YouTubeopen
"Is O'Reilly Media subscription worth $499 a year? It depends on your goals but my answer is YES. This learning platform offers not only just books but also video courses, paths to certifications, audio books, sandboxes, labs and more."
O'Reilly Media, Inc. (formerly O'Reilly & Associates), privately held, founded 1978, headquartered in Sebastopol, CA
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 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://oreilly.com/
- 2200https://www.oreilly.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 oreilly.com and not a lookalike like o-reilly.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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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 oreilly.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- oreilly.com 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. oreilly.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 53 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- oreilly.com is 29.0 years old, registered on 5/27/1997 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. oreilly.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- oreilly.com resolves to an IP operated by Google LLC in US (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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