Verdict
aehtosona.cat 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 | Official-looking regional association site (Associació d'empreses d'hostaleria i turisme del Moianès i d'Osona) offering news, agenda, lists of member restaurants/bars/hotels, contact details and links to local tourism resources. No login, no financial solicitations, and clear contact/address provided. |
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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% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 1 report; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 11 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2016Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2016.
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
Full analysis
Overview
What this website presents is a regional hospitality and tourism association for the Moianès and Osona areas, offering visitors association news, event information, directories of restaurants, bars, hotels and other accommodations, tourism resources, and contact channels. Its apparent business model is member support, local promotion, advocacy, event coordination, and collaboration with tourism stakeholders rather than direct sales, investment solicitation, or financial services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed across the available evidence: there were no phishing, impersonation, blacklist, malicious-content, or conflicting-identity indicators. The site's content is consistent with a local industry association, with public information about members, events, tourism destinations, and contact arrangements rather than credential capture or financial solicitation. One abuse report exists against the hosting IP, but it is attributed to shared data-centre infrastructure, carries zero confidence, and is therefore not evidence that the website itself is abusive. The apparent association identity is supported by the site's coherent subject matter and linked social presence, although the real-world operator is not independently verified.
- The homepage and association pages describe hospitality and tourism activities, member establishments, local events, and regional destinations; no login or financial-solicitation workflow was identified.
- The contact page provides association contact and address information, while the site exposes only a newsletter/contact function rather than a sensitive credential form.
- The domain was registered in 2015 and is approximately 10.99 years old through 2026-08-27.
- Historical records show first observation on 2016-09-03, last observation on 2026-06-08, and 11 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The legal and contact material presents the website as an association serving regional hospitality and tourism businesses, and the available content includes contact details, member directories, news, and links to established tourism resources. No financial or regulated investment activity is presented, so the absence of a financial licence claim is not itself an adverse legitimacy indicator; nevertheless, the site's regulatory or formal registration disclosure is unclear and should be treated as a transparency item if a prospective engagement involves paid membership, sponsorship, or other contractual services. Available third-party broker context produced no matching warning. The available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate association website, but it does not independently prove the operator's legal identity.
- The association, contact, and legal-notice areas identify a regional hospitality and tourism organisation and provide public contact information.
- The site links to regional tourism resources including osona.cat, victurisme.cat, turisme.gencat.cat, barcelonaesmoltmes.cat, and fihrt.cat.
- The domain is registered through Entorno Digital; hosting is on AS16371, acens_AS — acens Technologies, S.L., ES.
- The site's TLS certificate is issued by YR2 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-10-29.
What to Verify Next
Before any paid membership, sponsorship, invoice settlement, or disclosure of credentials, an organisation should independently confirm the association's legal standing and authorised contact details through the relevant local or corporate registry. Any contractual terms, payment destination, refund arrangements, and data-use provisions should be checked against the association's official documentation, with contact-channel confirmation obtained through an independently sourced route rather than relying solely on a website-provided message path.
- The association pages provide a named organisational purpose, member categories, event activity, and contact information suitable for independent comparison.
- The site maintains separate association, news, agenda, member-listing, and contact areas rather than presenting a single-purpose transactional landing page.
- Social links to Facebook and Twitter provide additional channels for comparing the organisation's public activity and contact identity.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website with a low-risk trust posture. No scam or impersonation contradiction was identified, while the remaining uncertainty concerns independent confirmation of the real-world operator rather than evidence of malicious activity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is hosted directly on infrastructure operated by acens Technologies, S.L. in Spain and does not use a detected CDN or WAF edge layer; resolution identifies a single likely origin endpoint. This provides less network-layer abstraction than a CDN-backed deployment, but the confirmed valid TLS configuration and stable, ordinary website behaviour are consistent with a functioning public association portal.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary browsing is proportionate to the assessed posture; before credentials, payments, or contractual commitments are involved, independent confirmation of the organisation, terms, and payment protections should be completed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 1 report on hosting IP 82.194.74.104 (Hostalia-DL-3, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 76/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 76% |
- 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 aehtosona.cat.
- The request stayed on aehtosona.cat. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Entorno Digital. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by websamida.net, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-08-27. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2016-09-03. Clear
- It is hosted on acens_AS, from a server in ES. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Entorno Digital |
|---|---|
| Hosting | acens_AS - acens Technologies, S.L., ES |
| Country | ES |
| Server IP | 82.194.74.104 |
| Name servers | ns2.websamida.net, ns1.websamida.net |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-29 |
| Domain age | 10.99 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-27 |
| Archive first seen | 2016-09-03 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 1 report | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about aehtosona.cat 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.