Verdict
adsbexchange.com 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 | ADS-B Exchange is an independent global flight-tracking network offering real-time and historical aircraft visibility, community receiver participation, developer access, and subscription data products for enterprise customers. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | 11 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20154150 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2015.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is ADS-B Exchange, an independent global flight-tracking network presenting real-time and historical aircraft visibility, community receiver participation, developer access, and subscription-based aviation data products for enterprise customers.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions, phishing indicators, impersonation signals, or confirmed blacklist findings were observed. The site presents a coherent aviation-data service with community, mapping, API, and enterprise-data sections; its long-running historical continuity, clean external reputation, and absence of suspicious page behavior support an established identity rather than a deceptive one.
- The homepage identifies flight tracking, aircraft data, receiver participation, developer access, and enterprise data products.
- The domain was registered in 2015 and is approximately 10.82 years old.
- The archive contains 4,150 snapshots across 12 tracked years, from 2015 through 2026.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious or suspicious detections and no blacklist hit.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s content supports a legitimate corporate/B2B aviation-data model built around subscriptions, developer access, and community infrastructure. The supplied pages do not present a regulated-financial license or license number; this is a limited disclosure point for counterparties that require formal authorization, not evidence of fraud. Registration privacy through Domains By Proxy is an administrative detail rather than an identity contradiction.
- The site navigation exposes Company Overview, Support, Contact Us, API Documentation, streaming documentation, and case studies.
- Registered through GoDaddy.com, LLC.
- Served on AS13335 through Cloudflare, Inc.
- TLS certificate issued by WE1 with DV validation, valid through 2026-10-11.
What to Verify Next
Enterprise counterparties should confirm the contracting entity, subscription scope, data-use terms, and billing arrangements through the site’s Company Overview, Support, and Contact Us channels. Where a procurement process requires formal licensing or sector authorization, the applicable registry status should be confirmed directly for the intended use case.
- The homepage links to Company Overview, Support, Contact Us, and enterprise-oriented data-product documentation.
- The site provides API, streaming, S3, sample-data, and case-study materials that can be compared with the contracted service scope.
Summary Verdict
ADS-B Exchange presents as a legitimate, established, and trustworthy aviation-data platform with strong identity continuity, coherent commercial purpose, and clean security indicators. Normal interaction, including account login and standard use, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection is present, and all observed addresses were CDN edge servers rather than origin candidates. This reduces direct exposure of the origin infrastructure and is a mitigating security factor, not standalone proof of legitimacy.
- Three observed edge addresses were associated with Cloudflare; no likely origin IP was identified.
- CDN infrastructure was resolved through Cloudflare’s US-based network.
Closing Assessment
Normal account access, enterprise engagement, and standard platform use are appropriate, with ordinary procurement and account-security controls applied.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-02 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 | 76/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 38% |
- Trusted social count=2
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 adsbexchange.com.
- The request stayed on adsbexchange.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-10-08. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2015-10-22. Clear
- 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 | 172.67.69.138 |
| Name servers | KIM.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, NORMAN.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-11 |
| Domain age | 10.8 years |
| Domain expiry | 2028-10-08 |
| Archive first seen | 2015-10-22 |
| Archive snapshots | 4150 |
| 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 adsbexchange.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.