No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is rentry.co legit or a scam?
Legitimate markdown paste service running since 2017 with one low-severity engine flag and isolated subpage complaints.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The domain has operated for nine years as a free markdown paste tool with preview and editing features. Only a single antivirus engine flagged it while browser blocklists stayed clean and the hosting IP shows minimal abuse history. Our research turned up a handful of complaints about specific user-created subpages involving crypto payments, but nothing indicating the core service itself is malicious. The page loads legitimate external resources and contains no login forms or scam-typical elements. Overall signals point to a real service that can host any user content, including problematic posts.
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 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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for rentry.co, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain rentry.co created May 4, 2017 (approx. 9 years old).
- Markdown paste service with preview, custom URLs, editing; free and anonymous.
- Operated by Matt and Sarah (Ko-fi page confirms).
- VirusTotal reports no security vendors flag the domain as malicious.
- Dedicated subreddit r/Rentry exists for sharing and discussion.
- Some Trustpilot reviews reference subpages (e.g., /RapidResearch) with scam allegations involving crypto payments.
- Scamadviser assigns high trust score and deems it legit/safe.
- Trustpilotopen
"This review is abour /RapidResearch which is part of rentry.co This guy would answer to your emails and provide you with payment instructions, but once the cryprocurrency was sent, he blocks you. You can't even complain to him."
- Trustpilotopen
"Beware. Some of the stuff works, others work a day or two then get closed. The guarentee is bogus as they don't respond to requests or tickets."
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, we think rentry.co is legit and safe for consumers to access."
Antivirus Engines
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.
- Phone number listed (1200-1600).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://rentry.co/
- 2200https://rentry.co/
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 rentry.co and not a lookalike like r-entry.co.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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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 rentry.co. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- rentry.co 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. rentry.co presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 89 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged rentry.co as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. rentry.co is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- rentry.co resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, 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.
- 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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