Is podbay.com safe?
http://podbay.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (68 of 97 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
PodBay is a long-established podcast chart and discovery site with no detected threats, but it does not disclose who runs it.
PodBay presents itself as an independent podcast discovery and charting platform that sources ranking data from Apple's public Marketing Tools feed and states it is not affiliated with Apple. The registrable domain is roughly 27 years old, the saved TLS check shows a valid encrypted connection, and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. The site's visible commercial element is advertising and links to shows and creators, with no checkout, subscription, or account flow observed. The main weakness is transparency: the captured page shows no direct contact email, and the operator is not disclosed, so accountability is unclear even though nothing malicious was found.
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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; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- MinorNo direct contact email was found on the captured page, and the operator is not disclosed.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 9970 days old, and a registration record shows a creation date of 1999-07-07.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
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
PodBay presents itself as an independent podcast discovery and charting platform that sources ranking data from Apple's public Marketing Tools feed and states it is not affiliated with Apple. The registrable domain is roughly 27 years old, the saved TLS check shows a valid encrypted connection, and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. The site's visible commercial element is advertising and links to shows and creators, with no checkout, subscription, or account flow observed. The main weakness is transparency: the captured page shows no direct contact email, and the operator is not disclosed, so accountability is unclear even though nothing malicious was found.
A podcast directory built on public chart data
The site describes itself as a podcast chart and trend tracker. Its own text says rankings are sourced from Apple's public Marketing Tools feed and that PodBay is independent and not affiliated with Apple, with rank movement comparing the most recent daily snapshot against the prior one. The captured page also shows a search field for shows or creators, consistent with a discovery tool rather than a store or service portal.
The visible commercial element is advertising and outbound links to podcast shows and creators. No affiliate relationships, checkout, subscription, or account mechanics appear in the evidence, so there is no transactional funnel to evaluate.
Clean technical checks, but the operator stays anonymous
On the technical side, the saved checks are clean: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. The registrable domain is 9970 days old, and a registration record shows a creation date of 1999-07-07, which is consistent with a long-running site rather than a throwaway domain.
The operator side is weaker. The captured page shows no direct contact email, and no operator identity is disclosed, so a visitor cannot easily verify who is behind the site or how to reach them. That is a transparency gap, not evidence of a scam, and it is the main reason the score sits in the low-risk band rather than higher.
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/ 97
No detectionsSaved analysis from April 23, 2025 - stale
No detections across 68 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 29 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 97
All 97 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- Artists Against 419 - Clean
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Axur - Unrated
- benkow.cc - Clean
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- Cluster25 - Unrated
- CMC Threat Intelligence - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Clean
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Feodo Tracker - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- Kaspersky - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- malwares.com URL checker - 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
- securolytics - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Clean
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- Spam404 - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- ThreatHive - Clean
- Threatsourcing - Clean
- Trustwave - Clean
- Underworld - Unrated
- 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
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerinformation technology
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
PodBay — Podcast Charts & Trends
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
PodBay — Podcast Charts & Trends
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
PodBay — Podcast Charts & Trends
- Meta description
Discover trending podcasts and daily Apple Podcasts chart rankings on PodBay.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
PodBay — Podcast Charts & Trends
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 68 antivirus results.
What independent research found
1 external finding was 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
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01No direct contact email was found on the captured page, and the operator is not disclosed.
- 02The registrable domain is 9970 days old, and a registration record shows a creation date of 1999-07-07.
- 03The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
Web research findings
Independent findings for podbay.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.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for podbay.com. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
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.
- Domainpodbay.com
- Redirects towww.podbay.com
- Hosted byInterserver, Inc
- Referencesgoogletagmanager.com · pagead2.googlesyndication.com
Domain Timeline
- Jul 7, 1999Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 27 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 23, 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.
podbay.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.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for podbay.com.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
- Google AdSense
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://podbay.com/
- 2200https://www.podbay.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.
No direct contact email was found on the captured page, and the operator is not disclosed.
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 97 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Apr 23, 2025 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 23, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 23, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 23, 2026 |
| Independent research | 1 independent finding was saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 23, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 97 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Apr 23, 2025
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 23, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 23, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 23, 2026
- Independent research
- Result1 independent finding was saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 23, 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 podbay.com a scam or is it safe?
Is podbay.com safe to use?
Has podbay.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is podbay.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
PodBay is a long-established podcast chart and discovery site with no detected threats, but it does not disclose who runs it.
PodBay presents itself as an independent podcast discovery and charting platform that sources ranking data from Apple's public Marketing Tools feed and states it is not affiliated with Apple. The registrable domain is roughly 27 years old, the saved TLS check shows a valid encrypted connection, and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. The site's visible commercial element is advertising and links to shows and creators, with no checkout, subscription, or account flow observed. The main weakness is transparency: the captured page shows no direct contact email, and the operator is not disclosed, so accountability is unclear even though nothing malicious was found.
09 · Community
Community
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