7,647 website reports, no age breakdown published
You came here wanting a typical age for scam websites, or at least a sense of how much it varies. We don't publish a breakdown of domain age across the sites we have reviewed, so we have no single figure to give.
As of October 27, 2026, TrustSniffer has published analyses for 7,647 websites. Each report is a verdict on a site as it looked on the day we reviewed it. The verdict rests on what the page claimed about itself and the warning signs we found on the page. The date the domain was first registered is not one of the inputs. Our sanctions directory is a separate list of entities we've assessed, kept apart from the website reports. It has no breakdown by age either.
A verdict describes the site on the day we reviewed it
Turning 7,647 individual reports into an age timeline would mean pulling a registration date for every one of them and lining those dates up against when we flagged the site. We haven't built that dataset, so there is no average age to report and no split between newer and older domains.
People who study how scam sites use domain age describe two patterns, and we have no published figure for either. In the first, the operators register a domain shortly before launch and drop it once the scam stops working. In the second, the site runs on a domain that has existed for years. The operators either bought it from a previous owner or took it over after the original project went quiet. In both cases the WHOIS record shows an old creation date, but the site on it now has nothing to do with the name's history. A single average age would not tell you which pattern you are looking at.
Made-up example: a page calling itself a long-running exchange sits on a domain that WHOIS shows was registered only recently. Another page claims to be a brand-new project, yet it sits on a domain that has existed for a long time under a different name. A recent date doesn't prove a site is a scam, and an old date doesn't prove it is safe. What matters is the gap between what the page says about itself and what the registration record shows.
Finding the registration date on your own
You can check the one site you're worried about without a published distribution:
- Run the domain through a public WHOIS lookup and find the "created" or "registered on" date in the record.
- Compare that date to what the site claims about itself: a page claiming years of history should have a registration date to match, and one that doesn't is worth a second look.
- Check the domain in our website checker. It analyses the site and returns a verdict. If the verdict flags the site, stop there. If the verdict is clean but the registration date still contradicts the site's story, treat the site as unsafe: don't send money and don't enter your login details.
What a mismatch settles, and what it doesn't
If the registration date contradicts the site's own story, stop before you send money or share credentials. A matching date reassures you less than a mismatch warns you. Someone can buy or take over an old domain years after it was created, so its age tells you nothing about who runs it today. If the date and the claims line up and something still feels wrong, keep checking before you send anything.
