Verdict
gelengiyayinlari.com is low-trust and potentially risky.
Several risk patterns were present. Do not send money or personal details until you have verified this business another way.
| What this site appears to be | Turkish publisher/site for Gelengi Yayınları featuring categories (Edebiyat, Roman, Çocuk Kitapları, Tiyatro), editorial excerpts, social media link prompts, and a user login form. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | 1 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 17 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2011Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2011.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This website is presented as Gelengi Yayınları, a Turkish publisher and bookstore offering literature, novels, children’s books, and theatre titles, together with editorial excerpts, social-media engagement, book sales, and optional user accounts.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is consistent with a conventional publisher and book-retail model, and no brand impersonation, phishing page, or conflicting legal identity is identified in the supplied page analysis. However, a confirmed external blacklist record is a material contradiction that outweighs the otherwise ordinary presentation for sensitive interaction. External detections also recorded one malicious and one suspicious classification, so the site should be treated as capable of presenting meaningful exposure despite the absence of an obvious abuse pattern in its visible content. The apparent connection to a real-world publisher is therefore only likely, not independently verified.
- Domain registration records show registration on 2009-10-24, an age of 16.83 years, through Atak Domain; the registrant organization is recorded as “Registrant of gelengiyayinlari.com.”
- Web-archive records show 27 snapshots spanning 2011–2025, with 15 years tracked.
- External reputation checks recorded 1 malicious detection and 1 suspicious detection, together with a confirmed blacklist hit.
- The homepage presents ordinary publisher content and categories, while the site analysis reports no detected brand-impersonation indicators.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage identifies the operation as Gelengi Yayınları and states that it is a brand of OPUS KÜLTÜR SANAT. The supplied visible content does not show a license, registration number, or other formal regulatory credential; for a book retailer this is a transparency and merchant-identity verification matter rather than proof of misconduct. The available evidence does not independently verify the operating entity, and the external warning remains a significant reputational signal. The TLS configuration confirms encrypted transport, but domain-validated encryption does not establish the operator’s legal identity.
- The homepage footer states: “Gelengi Yayınları, OPUS KÜLTÜR SANAT markasıdır.”
- No license number, registration number, or regulatory authority is shown in the supplied homepage content.
- The website is served from AS43260, identified as DGN TEKNOLOJI A.S., TR.
- The TLS certificate is issued by YR1, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-09-30 09:55:13 UTC.
What to Verify Next
Before any account creation, credential submission, or purchase, the publisher’s legal entity and business contact details should be confirmed through an independent source. Any applicable Turkish commercial, consumer-protection, or publishing registration should be checked against the relevant official registry, and payment should be limited to methods offering meaningful transaction dispute and recovery protections. The account-login flow should also be tested only after the site’s official contact channels and ownership claims have been independently corroborated.
- The homepage contains “Hakkımızda” and “İletişim” navigation, providing the relevant locations for checking entity and contact disclosures.
- The homepage includes an Instagram link, which can be compared independently with the publisher’s claimed identity and contact details.
- The site presents a login form requesting a username or email address and password.
- The business model is identified as publisher and book retailer with optional user accounts for purchases or account features.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated sensitive-interaction risk. Although the website appears to operate as a conventional publisher and retailer, the confirmed external contradiction prevents the available evidence from supporting normal confidence in account, credential, or financial interactions. Legitimacy remains apparent rather than proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to one identified hosting address rather than a protected CDN edge, with hosting attributed to DGN TEKNOLOJI A.S. in Türkiye. No CDN or WAF was detected, so the infrastructure provides limited intermediary protection; the valid DV certificate supports encrypted transport only and should not be treated as evidence of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users should restrict activity to non-sensitive browsing and defer account, credential, and financial interactions until the independent identity and reputation checks above are satisfactorily resolved.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
1 finding contributed to this verdict, raised by analysis engine.
01 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 73/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 74% |
- Trusted social count=1
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of gelengiyayinlari.com.
- The request stayed on gelengiyayinlari.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Atak Domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by kirmiziyayinlari.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-24. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-01-28. Clear
- It is hosted on AS43260, from a server in TR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Atak Domain |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AS43260 - DGN TEKNOLOJI A.S., TR |
| Country | TR |
| Server IP | 5.250.254.178 |
| Name servers | NS1.KIRMIZIYAYINLARI.COM, NS2.KIRMIZIYAYINLARI.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-30 |
| Domain age | 16.83 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-24 |
| Archive first seen | 2011-01-28 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 1 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about gelengiyayinlari.com at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.