Verdict
1stamericaninternetmarketing.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 agency homepage describing services (SEO, content, social media, PPC), team, testimonials, FAQs and contact details including an office address and phone number. No login/payment forms or crypto/financial investment offers detected. |
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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% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 5 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 15 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
This website presents itself as a digital marketing agency offering SEO, content marketing, social media management, PPC advertising, marketing strategy, testimonials, FAQs, team information, and appointment scheduling, with an apparent business model based on client engagements, project fees, or retainers.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
A confirmed blacklist finding creates a material contradiction to the otherwise conventional agency presentation and is the primary reason for the elevated risk posture. Separate external reputation screening also returned malicious and suspicious detections, although another major browser-safety check was not malicious. The homepage contains generic template language, including “[Your Marketing Agency's Name]” and incomplete “Get a !” calls to action, which weakens confidence that the presented business identity is fully established. Behavioral evidence also showed unusually high external activity and interaction-related page changes, while no login form, hidden sensitive form, wallet connection, clipboard manipulation, or cloaking behavior was detected. The abuse reports associated with the hosting address are not treated as a site-specific finding because they were attributed to shared CDN infrastructure with zero confidence.
- External reputation screening recorded `external_blacklist=true`, `vt_malicious=1`, and `vt_suspicious=2`; Google Safe Browsing recorded `gsb_malicious=false`.
- The homepage displays the placeholder “[Your Marketing Agency's Name]” and incomplete “Get a !” calls to action.
- The domain was registered on 2011-04-27 and is approximately 15.32 years old.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available content describes ordinary marketing services rather than a regulated financial offering, and it does not present a regulated-service license or registration number. The site supplies an office address, telephone number, team material, testimonials, and contact details, but the independently verified real-world operator identity remains unestablished. The registration record identifies GoDaddy.com, LLC as registrar and uses Registration Private through Domains By Proxy, LLC; this is an administrative ownership-opacity issue rather than an identity contradiction. Transport security is present, but domain-validated TLS confirms encrypted communication, not the legal identity or reliability of the operator.
- The homepage identifies services including digital marketing strategy, SEO, content marketing, social media, and PPC, and provides team, testimonial, FAQ, office, and contact content.
- Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC; registration record organization: Domains By Proxy, LLC; registrant designation: Registration Private.
- TLS certificate issuer: WE1; validation level: DV; valid to 2026-10-24.
What to Verify Next
Before any contractual commitment, independently corroborate the agency’s legal name, operating address, telephone number, and ownership through authoritative business records and an offline contact route. If the proposed engagement involves regulated advertising, financial promotion, data processing, or another controlled activity, confirm the applicable authorization directly with the relevant regulator. Any account, credential, or payment interaction should remain deferred until those checks and the blacklist finding have been resolved through documented evidence.
- The homepage provides an office address and phone number suitable for independent corroboration.
- The site presents no login or payment form, and no sensitive form was detected during technical interaction.
- The supplied regulatory assessment records the operator identity as unverified and the on-page disclosure state as unclear.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated risk for sensitive interaction. The conventional marketing-agency presentation is not sufficient to overcome the confirmed external reputation contradiction, and the site should not presently be treated as a trusted business counterparty for credentials, accounts, or financial activity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Cloudflare’s CDN/WAF, and the observed address is a CDN edge address rather than an independently exposed origin. This provides a meaningful layer of traffic and origin protection, but it is only a mitigating infrastructure characteristic and does not establish site legitimacy; edge-only visibility can also limit independent hosting verification.
- Hosted through AS13335, CLOUDFLARENET — Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- Observed edge IP: 162.159.140.166; origin candidates observed: 0.
- Cloudflare CDN/WAF detected; registry: ARIN; infrastructure country: US.
Closing Assessment
The proportionate course is to restrict activity to passive review while independently validating the business and resolving the external reputation contradiction; credentials, account creation, and financial transactions should not proceed in the interim.
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
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 5 reports on hosting IP 162.159.140.166 (Cloudflare, Inc., Content Delivery Network), 0% 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 1stamericaninternetmarketing.com.
- The request stayed on 1stamericaninternetmarketing.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 2027-04-27. Noted
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 162.159.140.166 |
| Name servers | NS69.DOMAINCONTROL.COM, NS70.DOMAINCONTROL.COM |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-24 |
| Domain age | 15.32 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-04-27 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 1 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 5 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about 1stamericaninternetmarketing.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.