Verdict
10zone.ae 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 | Corporate consultancy website offering company formation and related professional services in the UAE (Dubai mainland, free zones, ADGM), with packages, guides, blog content and contact details (office address in Business Bay and an email). |
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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 | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 8.0 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 201876 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Governance Risk.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2018.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
10zone.ae presents itself as “10 Zone,” a UAE-focused corporate consultancy offering company formation in Dubai mainland, free zones and ADGM, together with accounting, human-resources, recruitment, legal-documentation and office-related services for businesses establishing operations in the UAE.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is consistent with a professional consultancy and does not present a login form, credential-collection form, wallet connection, or other direct phishing mechanism. However, this benign page presentation is outweighed by a confirmed blacklist hit and two external suspicious detections associated with the domain. A separate similarity signal involving “one.one” raises an additional lookalike concern, although the available evidence does not establish that the consultancy is impersonating that brand. The resulting contradiction is material and warrants a security-forward posture for sensitive interactions.
- External reputation telemetry records the domain as blacklisted; two detections were classified as suspicious, while malicious detections were not recorded.
- Domain registration continuity: Registered 2018 (~8.02 years old).
- Web-archive telemetry: 76 snapshots spanning 2018–2026 (9 years tracked), with no detected repurposing or semantic drift.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage and related business pages describe commercial packages for UAE company formation and supporting professional services, including accounting and VAT compliance, human resources, recruitment, legal-document drafting, guides and blog material. The site does not claim a specific regulatory license or display a license number, so the regulatory status of the service provider remains an open verification matter rather than proof of wrongdoing. The on-site brand is “10 Zone,” while independent identity verification remains incomplete; the registration record identifies Rohit Ghai, but that record alone does not establish that he is the contracting legal entity or authorized operator. The available broker-context dataset contains no match.
- Hosting telemetry: Served from AS398101 (GoDaddy.com, LLC, US).
- Transport security telemetry: TLS certificate issued by YR2, domain-validated (DV), valid to 2026-10-12T19:32:23+00:00.
- The homepage and service content describe company-formation and related consultancy packages but do not state a license authority or license number.
What to Verify Next
Before any payment, appointment, document submission or reliance on incorporation advice, the prospective counterparty should confirm the provider’s exact legal entity and authorization directly with the relevant UAE licensing or free-zone registry. The stated office location should be independently validated, and the engagement should be governed by written terms identifying the contracting entity, scope, fees, refunds, client-money handling and responsibility for government charges. Contact channels should be confirmed through an independently obtained route rather than relying solely on the website.
- The service pages identify UAE mainland, free-zone and ADGM company-formation offerings requiring confirmation of the provider’s authority for each jurisdiction.
- The contact and business-information pages provide the stated basis for independently validating the office and contracting party.
- The packages and service descriptions provide the scope to reconcile against written quotations, engagement terms and government-fee receipts.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated risk. The site’s professional presentation and substantive business content do not resolve the externally recorded reputation contradiction or the unresolved connection to a verified real-world operator. It should not be treated as an established or identity-verified counterparty for sensitive activity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to GoDaddy hosting rather than a detected CDN or WAF edge, with a likely origin address visible in the observed resolution. The use of mainstream hosting and active transport encryption is a limited technical positive, but it provides no assurance about the operator’s legitimacy or the domain’s reputation.
- Infrastructure resolution identified one IP address, with zero edge IPs and one likely origin IP.
- Hosting infrastructure is provided by GoDaddy.com, LLC in the United States; no CDN was detected.
Closing Assessment
The proportionate interim posture is read-only review, with credentials, sensitive documents and financial commitments deferred until the counterparty and regulatory standing have been independently validated.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-18 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
1 finding contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership.
01 Governance Risk
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
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 10zone.ae.
- The request stayed on 10zone.ae. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2018-08-11. Clear
- It is hosted on GO-DADDY-COM-LLC, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
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| Hosting | GO-DADDY-COM-LLC - GoDaddy.com, LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 50.63.18.80 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-12 |
| Domain age | 8.02 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2018-08-11 |
| Archive snapshots | 76 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about 10zone.ae 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.