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淘宝淘宝网 - 亚洲较大的网上交易平台,提供各类服饰、美容、家居、数码、话费/点卡充值… 数亿优质商品,同时提供担保交易(先收货后付款)等安全交易保障服务,并由商家提供退货承诺、破损补寄等消费者保障服务,让你安心享受网上购物乐趣!

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Truth score

Customer satisfaction
Mostly dissatisfied
From independent reviews, weighed by their number

Business details

Founded
1985
Owned by
Alibaba Group
Domain age
23 years
Address
杭州市余杭区文一西路969号阿里巴巴西溪园区
Email address
Not found
Phone number
Not found
Contact page
taobao.com/about/contact.php
Website
taobao.com
Social media

Customer reviews

SiteReviewsRating
Trustpilot189 reviewsNot found
SmartCustomer65 reviews2.4
Reviews.io44 reviews1.5
Total298
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Summary

Is taobao.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 76 out of 100, high truth signals: 8 of 10 public checks clear, 1 to be cautious about, 1 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied.

We read 2 of its pages: contact and about. Its website address was registered 23 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. Be cautious: its 65 reviews on SmartCustomer average only 2.4 stars out of 5. Its 44 reviews on Reviews.io average only 1.5 stars out of 5. We could not find an email address or a phone number.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

Positives

  • We read 2 of its pages · contact and about.
  • Its website address was registered 23 years ago.
  • No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Be cautious

  • A low number of independent reviews (65 on SmartCustomer), but it falls short with only 2.4 stars out of 5.
  • A low number of independent reviews (44 on Reviews.io), but it falls short with only 1.5 stars out of 5.

Not found

  • Email address information was not found from our checks.
  • Phone number information was not found from our checks.

Our technical team has been informed.

What they offer

淘宝网 - 亚洲较大的网上交易平台,提供各类服饰、美容、家居、数码、话费/点卡充值… 数亿优质商品,同时提供担保交易(先收货后付款)等安全交易保障服务,并由商家提供退货承诺、破损补寄等消费者保障服务,让你安心享受网上购物乐趣!
— taobao.com, in their own wordsIts homepage

How to check if taobao.com is legit

1 be cautious · 8 clear · 1 for information

To check if taobao.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews, visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about taobao.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.

Who they are

Company detailsPart of Alibaba Group; founded in 1985 (Wikipedia)
Country
Where the company is based
Not stated with its address
From Wikipedia
Industry
e-commerce
Parent company
Alibaba Group
Founded
1985
SourcesWikipedia
Domain registrationIts website address was registered 23 years ago
  • Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else
Domain age
23 years
Domain transfer lock enabled
Yes
Website detailsWe read 2 of its pages: contact and about
HTTPS enabled
Yes
Contact phone number found
Not found
Contact page found
Contact page

Reputation and track record

Customer reviews298 reviews across 3 platforms, rated 1.5 to 2.4 out of 5
PlatformRatingReviews
TrustpilotUnknown189
SmartCustomer2.4 out of 565
G2Not found
CapterraNot found
Reviews.io1.5 out of 544
FeefoNot found
TrustindexNot found
GoogleNot checked
Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months
  • Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
  • It is among the 500 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)
Monthly visitor data
Popularity among Chrome users
top 50,000 sites
First known user traffic
Feb 2021 or earlier
Months with real traffic, of the last 24
24
Traffic pattern
sustained
Rank jump in the last 12 months
none
Rank drop in the last 12 months
none
Cloudflare Radar
Popularity across the internet
top 500 sites
Web history and authorityThe Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 23 years ago
Website archive history
23 years
Wikipedia page
yes
Social presenceIt is on 3 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram and YouTube); the largest audience is 1,819,700 followers on Facebook
  • Its YouTube channel has 825 subscribers and 34 videos, the latest uploaded on 3 Nov 2020
PlatformProfileAudience
FacebookProfile1,819,700 followers
InstagramProfile175,000 followers
XNot found
LinkedInNot found
YouTubeProfile825 subscribers
TikTokNot found
Social platforms with discovered profiles
facebook, instagram, youtube
Social follower counts
1,995,525 followers in total
YouTube channel
34 videos, 825 subscribers, last upload 3 Nov 2020

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its website
Malware or phishing threat status
None
Data breach historyOne known data breach involving the company: Taobao, the latest 14 years ago
Known data breaches found
1
Taobao

In approximately 2012, it's alleged that the Chinese shopping site known as Taobao suffered a data breach that impacted over 21 million subscribers. Whilst there is evidence that the data is legitimate, due to the difficulty of emphatically verifying the Chinese breach it has been flagged as "unverified". The data in the breach contains email addresses and plain text passwords. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.

Accounts affected
21,149,008
Date
1 Jan 2012
Data exposed
Email addresses, Passwords

Breach data: Have I Been Pwned

Domain and email securityIts email is protected: mail forged in its name goes to spam
Email
MX records
Yes
SPF record
Yes
DKIM key
Yes
DMARC record
Yes
DMARC policy
quarantine
Certificate
Security certificate browsers warn about
No
Certificate issuer
GlobalSign nv-sa
Certificate type
OV
Certificate expires
22 Nov 2026
Hosting
Nameservers
ns4.taobao.com
ns5.taobao.com
ns6.taobao.com
ns7.taobao.com
Address
59.82.44.240
59.82.122.140
59.82.43.239
59.82.43.234
59.82.121.163
59.82.122.130
59.82.43.238
59.82.122.165

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