Verdict
ahpweb.org 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 | Official website for the Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP). Provides information about the organization, events calendar, membership, donations, publications, and resources. |
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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 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 30 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 1996581 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | 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 1996.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website presents itself as the official online presence of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, offering information about humanistic psychology, events and training, membership, donations, publications, professional directories, and member services. Its apparent business model is that of a nonprofit association supported by memberships, event activity, donations, advertising, and publication-related revenues.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s own content is coherent with a nonprofit association and does not contain detected brand-impersonation markers, identity inconsistencies, or overt phishing features. However, the domain is subject to a confirmed blacklist finding, creating a material contradiction that outweighs the otherwise credible organizational presentation for sensitive interactions. Independent reputation telemetry also recorded one malicious and one suspicious detection, while behavioral testing identified two suspicious inline scripts and substantial DOM changes after interaction; these observations do not establish malicious intent individually, but they reinforce the need for a security-forward posture. The identity connection is assessed as likely rather than independently verified, based in part on the site’s presence across four established social platforms.
- The homepage identifies the organization as the Association for Humanistic Psychology and presents a nonprofit/association structure with membership, events, donations, and publications.
- Domain registration records show registration on 1996-08-16, making the domain approximately 30.03 years old.
- Historical records contain 581 snapshots spanning 1996–2026, with 31 years tracked.
- External reputation telemetry records 1 malicious and 1 suspicious detection and a confirmed blacklist finding for the domain.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The About section presents a nonprofit 501(c)(3) status, Articles of Incorporation dated 1965, and current board and staff information. These disclosures are consistent with the stated association model, but the supplied pages do not independently verify the organization’s legal status or provide a verified registration number or applicable regulatory authorization. This is a verification gap rather than evidence of a scam, and no separate broker-reputation match was identified. The presence of a login, membership, donation, and subscription-related functionality makes confirmation of the responsible organization and payment handling important before sensitive use.
- The About section includes “Nonprofit 501(c)(3) Status” and “Articles of Incorporation (1965)” pages, alongside current board and staff information.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YE2, valid to 2026-11-11T12:27:07+00:00.
- The site is served from AS47583, identified as AS-HOSTINGER - Hostinger International Limited, CY.
- The registrar is IONOS SE, with a recorded expiration date of 2027-08-15.
What to Verify Next
An institution considering engagement should independently confirm the association’s nonprofit registration and the legal entity responsible for donations, memberships, and subscriptions through the relevant public registry. Payment processing should be checked for a clearly identified beneficiary and appropriate payment-protection mechanisms. Contact details should be confirmed through an independently sourced channel, and any account access should be tested only after the organization and transaction path have been validated.
- The About section provides the site’s nonprofit-status and incorporation claims for independent registry comparison.
- The Join, Donate, Members, and Login areas expose the principal sensitive interaction points requiring validation.
- The Contact page provides the site’s stated communication route for comparison with independently sourced organizational details.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated sensitive-interaction risk. Although the website’s content and organizational presentation are internally coherent, the external contradiction materially limits confidence in using the site for authentication, credential submission, donations, or other consequential activity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single likely origin address, with no CDN detected and no edge-IP layer identified. This provides less separation between the public service and its hosting environment than a CDN/WAF deployment would provide; infrastructure characteristics are therefore a limited mitigating consideration, not evidence of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Pending independent confirmation of the organization and transaction pathways, activity should remain limited to public informational browsing, with credentials and payment details withheld.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 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 public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - The structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE - The page rewrote itself after it was interacted with, so what a visitor first sees is not what they end up on.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DIFF_AFTER_INTERACTION - The page carried inline scripts written in a style TrustSniffer treats as suspicious.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_SUSPICIOUS_INLINE_SCRIPTS
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 80/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 80% |
- Trusted social count=4
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 ahpweb.org.
- The request stayed on ahpweb.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under IONOS SE. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ui-dns.org, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-08-15. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1996-12-28. Clear
- It is hosted on AS-HOSTINGER, from a server in LT. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | IONOS SE |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AS-HOSTINGER - Hostinger International Limited, CY |
| Country | LT |
| Server IP | 86.38.202.150 |
| Name servers | ns1028.ui-dns.org, ns1051.ui-dns.de, ns1101.ui-dns.biz, ns1117.ui-dns.com |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-11 |
| Domain age | 30.03 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-15 |
| Archive first seen | 1996-12-28 |
| Archive snapshots | 581 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 1 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about ahpweb.org 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.