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kobo.com is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1996. We couldn’t read its page: it turned our scanner away.

This site turns automated visitors away, as many large sites do, so we couldn’t read its page. What public records say is below; the score needs the page.

Popularity

Website Traffic Checker

Among the top 10K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #4,448 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #2,228

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#4,448list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 10,000Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#2,228list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Shopify.

  • ShopifyE-commerceShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · DNS record
    …com include:_spf.alchemer.eu include:stspg-customer.com include:_spf.mlsend.com include:shops.shopify.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:amazonses.com ~all
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Everything else it uses (8)

Around it: CDN, DNS, Email, SEO and more.

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Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

We couldn’t read the page; outside records are below.

Signals, not a judgement: missing details are common on small, honest sites.

  • Domain registered5 Dec 1996, 29 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNoted
Every signal we looked at

On the site

  • Contact pageBot protection hid the pageCouldn’t check
  • About pageBot protection hid the pageCouldn’t check
  • Privacy policyBot protection hid the pageCouldn’t check
  • TermsBot protection hid the pageCouldn’t check
  • Refund or returns policyBot protection hid the pageCouldn’t check
  • Contact detailsBot protection hid the pageCouldn’t check
  • Company detailsBot protection hid the pageCouldn’t check
  • Payment providersBot protection hid the pageCouldn’t check
  • TrackersBot protection hid the pageCouldn’t check

Behind the site

  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNotedCloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filter
  • Domain registered5 Dec 1996, 29 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settingsBot protection answered instead of the siteCouldn’t check
  • Email protectionProtected against forged emailFoundDNS records

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What it is

Website Summary

We couldn’t read the page, so we can’t say what it is.

We couldn’t read the page, so there are no words of its own to quote.

We couldn’t read the page, so we can’t say what kind of site it is.

Who is behind it

  • WikidataRakuten Kobo Inc.

Wikidata: Part of Rakuten Group, Inc.; based in Toronto, Canada; founded by Michael Serbinis.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q389251: Rakuten Kobo Inc.
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Each name is quoted from its source. A brand and the company that owns it often go by different names.

More about it: Wikidata, profiles, AI use, page facts

In Wikidata

  • Rakuten Kobo Inc.: Canadian subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten · subsidiary company · since 2009
  • Kobo.com: digital book and audiobook distribution platform operated by Rakuten Kobo Inc. · digital book and audiobook distribution platform, ebook streaming service, audiobook streaming service

Wikidata, the free knowledge base behind Wikipedia, lists this domain as the official website of these items. Volunteers write it; each item shows its sources.

AI use

  • AI training: doesn’t ask AI training crawlers to stay away.
  • AI assistants: may read it for the people who ask them.

What its robots.txt and robots tags ask of AI crawlers. Each crawler chooses whether to follow it.

Site name
Not given
Language
Not given
What it tells search engines
None

Read from what the page says about itself; we haven’t checked whether it’s true.

Built with AI?

AI Website Detector

We couldn’t read the page, so we couldn’t look for traces.

AI traces: Couldn’t check

How we know

AI site builders leave traces in the sites they make. We look for the traces of 53 of them and show every match with the line it came from, so you can check it yourself.

We test this on 2,312 sites whose makers we know, and publish what we get wrong.

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Score breakdown

Site Score

No score: we couldn’t read the page, and outside records alone would mislead.

Why each part scored what it did

Domain history

Domain History

Registered in 1996.

  1. Domain registeredRDAP
  2. This scanCheckAnySite

The web archive couldn’t be reached; we’ll ask it again. Why can this be empty?

Changes, earlier scans and alerts
Since our previous scan
This is our first scan of the site.

How we scanned it

Only from what anyone can see: the site’s public pages and public records.

  • Politely. Our scanner, CheckAnySiteBot, says who it is and follows the site’s robots.txt.
  • With sources. Every fact above says where it came from and when.
  • Without guessing. When we couldn’t check something, we say so.
This scan, in numbers

924 checks on 14 Oct 2026, with version 0.5.0 of our checks and version 1.1 of the score.

How we work · What each version changed · About our scanner

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Built with AI?

Couldn’t checkWe couldn’t read the page.

“None found” never means “made by a person”: coding assistants leave no traces.

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Related

Quick look

How popular is it?

Top 10KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#4,448list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 10,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#2,228list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

E-commerce
Shopify

And 8 more around it (CDN, DNS, Email, SEO), in the section.

Each with its evidence →

Related

Quick look

Which trust signals does it show?

On the site

  • Contact pageCouldn’t check
  • About pageCouldn’t check
  • Privacy policyCouldn’t check
  • TermsCouldn’t check
  • Refund or returns policyCouldn’t check
  • Contact detailsCouldn’t check
  • Company detailsCouldn’t check
  • Payment providersCouldn’t check
  • TrackersCouldn’t check

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersCouldn’t check
  • Software versionsCouldn’t check
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupFound
  • First certificateCouldn’t check
  • DNSSECNot found
  • Certificate authoritiesFound

Signals, not a judgement: missing details are common on small, honest sites.

Every signal with its source →

Related

How has it changed? →

Questions about kobo.com

How old is kobo.com?

Its domain was registered on 5 Dec 1996, 29 years ago. See the evidence

How popular is kobo.com?

It is among the top 10,000 sites, by Tranco, Chrome UX Report and Majestic Million. See the evidence

Who is behind kobo.com?

Wikidata names Rakuten Kobo Inc.. See the evidence

More sites near it in popularity

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 14 Oct 2026. They describe what we found, not the people or business behind the site, and they may be incomplete or out of date. This is information, not advice. Terms · Report an error

What this scan can’t tell you
  • Whether the business is real, honest or delivers what it sells.
  • Whether a site was made with AI when no traces were left: coding assistants and hand edits leave none.
  • How many people visit: we show popularity bands from public lists, not visits.
  • Anything beyond the home page as it was at the time of the scan.

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