Verdict
1848commercial.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 | Marketing/landing page for Koi House, a creative office space in Barrio Logan, San Diego. Contains property copy, address, contact form and newsletter signup. Protected by Google reCAPTCHA. |
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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 | 3 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 26% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 13 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 17 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 201011 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1 | 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 2010.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
1848commercial.com presents Koi House, a creative office-space property in Barrio Logan, San Diego. The landing page promotes the space through architectural and lifestyle descriptions, provides a physical address, and offers contact and newsletter forms intended to generate prospective tenant or client leads.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site carries a clearly cautionary risk posture because external reputation checks recorded malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist hit. These signals conflict with the otherwise ordinary small-business presentation and warrant treating the domain as unsuitable for sensitive interaction until independently resolved. No on-page phishing form, wallet connection, financial product, or brand-impersonation mechanism was identified; the concern is therefore driven by external reputation evidence rather than the visible business model. The domain has an established registration history, but that fact does not neutralize the confirmed reputation contradictions.
- Domain registration records show creation on 2010-01-12 and an age of 16.61 years.
- Archive records contain 11 snapshots spanning 2010–2026 across 17 tracked years, with the latest snapshot dated 2026-02-08.
- External reputation checks recorded 3 malicious detections, 1 suspicious detection, and a confirmed blacklist hit.
- The homepage behavior included 173 external XHR requests, 131 non-whitelisted external XHR requests, 4 external POST requests, 2 non-whitelisted POST requests, and 14 console errors; no hidden forms, password forms, wallet-drainer activity, or cloaking was detected.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site identifies the operating presentation as Koi House and displays a San Diego property address, but the available material does not independently establish the legal entity responsible for leasing or operating the premises. No license or registration number is claimed on the landing page; for a commercial property lead-generation site this is a verification and disclosure gap rather than, by itself, evidence of a scam. Registration is through GoDaddy.com, LLC, with the registrant recorded through Domains By Proxy, LLC; this is an administrative ownership limitation and does not constitute an identity contradiction. The published business model is limited to office-space inquiries and newsletter subscriptions, with no sensitive form fields observed.
- The homepage states “1848 Commercial Street, San Diego, CA, USA” and provides “Contact us” and “Subscribe for news” functions.
- WHOIS records identify GoDaddy.com, LLC as registrar, with creation date 2010-01-12T18:01:12Z and expiration date 2027-01-12T18:01:12Z; the recorded registrant organization is Domains By Proxy, LLC.
- The site’s TLS certificate is DV-validated, issued by GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1, and valid through 2026-10-18T15:30:35+00:00.
- The homepage contains 2 forms: one contact form and one subscription form; neither was classified as sensitive.
What to Verify Next
Before a lease inquiry, deposit, payment, or submission of non-public business information, independently confirm the contracting entity, property authority, payment recipient, and written tenancy terms using contact details obtained through an offline or independently sourced channel. The stated address should be checked against an independent property or business record, and any applicable local commercial-leasing requirements should be confirmed with the relevant authority. The official support and contact channels should also be validated independently before relying on communications received through the site.
- The homepage supplies the property address but does not, in the available content, identify a verified contracting legal entity.
- The site collects names, email addresses, and newsletter subscriptions through two public forms.
- The available regulatory context records the on-page disclosure state as unclear and licensing as unverified.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated risk for sensitive interaction. The site’s conventional commercial presentation and long operating history are outweighed by corroborated external reputation contradictions, while the real-world operator remains unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed traffic terminating at Amazon.com, Inc. edge infrastructure rather than a directly observable origin. This provides a meaningful exposure-mitigation layer, but shared hosting infrastructure cannot establish site legitimacy; abuse reports associated with the shared edge should not be treated as site-specific attribution without additional evidence.
- Served from AS16509, Amazon.com, Inc., US; observed edge IPs were 13.248.243.5 and 76.223.105.230.
- Infrastructure records identify 2 unique IP addresses, both classified as CDN edges, with 0 likely origin candidates.
- The shared CDN edge address 76.223.105.230 has 13 abuse reports and an abuse-confidence score of 26; attribution is explicitly to shared provider infrastructure.
- TLS is DV-validated, issued by GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1, with validity ending 2026-10-18T15:30:35+00:00.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users should restrict activity to passive review until the contracting party, property authority, payment arrangements, and communications channels have been independently confirmed; credentials, deposits, and other sensitive transactions should not proceed on the site’s presentation alone.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-18 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership, analysis engine, behaviour in a sandbox.
01 Governance Risk
- The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN - Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - Most of what the page loaded came from other domains rather than from this one.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_HIGH - The page made background requests to destinations TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_XHR - The page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS - The page exchanged network traffic with destinations TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_TRAFFIC
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 13 reports on hosting IP 76.223.105.230 (Amazon.com, Inc., Content Delivery Network), 26% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 25% |
- 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 1848commercial.com.
- The request stayed on 1848commercial.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by domaincontrol.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-01-12. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2010-05-10. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 76.223.105.230 |
| Name servers | NS13.DOMAINCONTROL.COM, NS14.DOMAINCONTROL.COM |
| SSL issuer | GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-18 |
| Domain age | 16.61 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-01-12 |
| Archive first seen | 2010-05-10 |
| Archive snapshots | 11 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 3 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 26% confidence, 13 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about 1848commercial.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.