Verdict
8dots.in appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Marketing website for 8 Dots, a web and app development agency based in Ahmedabad with service listings, team, testimonials, contact details and office addresses (India and USA). |
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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 | 9.0 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2017Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2017.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
8 Dots is a business website for an Ahmedabad-based digital agency presenting web and app development, digital marketing, UI/UX, graphic-design, team, testimonial, blog, and contact content, with an apparent business model based on project delivery and ongoing technology-support engagements.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site presents a coherent corporate-agency profile, provides ordinary business contact and office information, links to three social platforms, and uses a standard non-sensitive contact form rather than a login, payment, credential-collection, or wallet-connection workflow. Available reputation checks found no malicious, phishing, impersonation, or blacklist signal, although coverage was not complete; this supports an apparently legitimate and low-risk presentation without independently proving the operator’s real-world identity.
- The homepage describes 8 Dots as a web and app development company and identifies services, team content, testimonials, and business contact information.
- The contact workflow contains one contact form with no sensitive fields, no password submission, and no untrusted destination.
- The domain was registered on 2017-08-28 and is approximately 8.98 years old.
- Web-archive records show 75 snapshots spanning 2017–2026, with 10 years tracked and no detected suspicious repurposing.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available company and contact content is consistent with a small digital-services agency, but the real-world operator identity is only likely rather than independently verified. No regulatory license or registration number is claimed in the supplied site content; for this type of technology-services business, that is a disclosure and contracting verification point rather than evidence of fraud. The site’s social links and established operating history provide useful corroboration, while the available third-party broker dataset contains no matching record and should not be interpreted as a licensing determination.
- The company content identifies the business as 8 Dots and describes web development, app development, digital marketing, graphic design, and UI/UX services.
- The domain registrar is GoDaddy.com, LLC.
- The site is protected by a valid DV TLS certificate issued by YE2, expiring 2026-10-25.
- The available company content includes team, testimonial, office-address, and social-presence material, but no license or registration number is stated.
What to Verify Next
Before a commercial engagement, the contracting party should be confirmed through an independently obtained legal name, invoice details, and payment account information. Any registration or tax information represented by the proposed contracting entity should be checked against the relevant jurisdictional registry, and project scope, ownership of deliverables, support obligations, termination rights, and refund terms should be documented in a signed agreement. Payment should use a method providing appropriate commercial dispute and payment-protection recourse.
- The site provides an ordinary business contact pathway rather than a sensitive account-access workflow.
- The site presents a service-company structure suitable for independent supplier due diligence.
- The presence of social and business-contact channels creates routes for separate confirmation of the proposed contracting relationship.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. No scam, phishing, impersonation, or identity-conflict signal was observed, but the website’s operator identity is not independently proven by the supplied evidence.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves through Hostinger International Limited, with no CDN or WAF vendor detected and a single apparent origin address observed. This is ordinary hosting infrastructure and does not itself establish legitimacy; the valid transport-encryption configuration is the principal technical integrity signal.
- Served from AS47583 (AS-HOSTINGER - Hostinger International Limited, CY), with the server located in LT.
- One unique IP was observed, with zero edge IPs and one likely origin IP.
- TLS validation level is DV; the issuer is YE2 and validity ends 2026-10-25.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and routine business correspondence are proportionate to the available risk posture, while independent contracting-party, agreement, and payment-protection checks should be completed before credential or payment interactions.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- Trusted social count=3
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 8dots.in.
- The request stayed on 8dots.in. 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 2026-08-28. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2017-12-07. Clear
- It is hosted on AS-HOSTINGER, from a server in LT. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AS-HOSTINGER - Hostinger International Limited, CY |
| Country | LT |
| Server IP | 88.222.240.6 |
| Name servers | ns07.domaincontrol.com, ns08.domaincontrol.com |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-25 |
| Domain age | 8.98 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-08-28 |
| Archive first seen | 2017-12-07 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| 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 8dots.in 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.