Verdict
airbnb.cn 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 | Chinese-language Airbnb landing/search page listing short‑term rental and hotel options with prices and ratings; includes corporate/legal footer and cookie consent. |
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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 | 17 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20111392 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 | 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 2011.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
A Chinese-language travel marketplace presents short-term rental homes, vacation properties, experiences, and hotel listings with prices, guest ratings, search, and booking functionality. Its apparent business model is to connect hosts and accommodation providers with guests and generate revenue through booking and service fees.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictory signals were observed: the available evidence contains no phishing, confirmed impersonation, malicious-content, or blacklist indicators. The page-level brand-similarity signal connecting the presentation with Airbnb’s primary brand was assessed as a legitimate brand variant rather than impersonation because the Chinese-language marketplace content, corporate/legal footer, booking functionality, and overall page structure were internally consistent. The site is therefore apparently legitimate on the evidence available, although the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
- The homepage presents Airbnb-branded Chinese-language rental and hotel listings, prices, guest ratings, search, and booking functions, with no detected login form, hidden form, or externally posted password form.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no confirmed blacklist or phishing hit for the site.
- The domain was registered on 2009-02-26 and is 17.46 years old.
- The site has 1,392 archive snapshots spanning 2011-02-24 to 2026-07-07, covering 16 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site operates as a travel marketplace rather than presenting itself as a financial or otherwise expressly regulated service. Its homepage includes corporate/legal footer material and cookie consent, but the available content does not establish the independently verified real-world operator identity or provide a clearly confirmed licensing position. This is a verification matter concerning corporate and consumer-protection disclosures, not evidence of a scam. A separate broker-reputation dataset returned no match and provides no adverse regulatory conclusion.
- The homepage is categorized as a travel marketplace and displays accommodation and hotel booking content rather than regulated financial products.
- The homepage contains a corporate/legal footer and cookie-consent mechanism; no license claim or license number is presented in the available page findings.
- The site is registered through 阿里云计算有限公司（万网）; the recorded registration expires on 2028-02-26.
- Its TLS certificate is issued by DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1, uses OV validation, identifies Airbnb, Inc. as the subject organization, and is valid through 2026-10-22.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an organization should independently confirm the applicable Airbnb corporate entity for the relevant jurisdiction, review the booking, cancellation, refund, and dispute terms, and ensure that payment is processed through the platform’s documented protected channels. Contact and support channels should be confirmed through an independently sourced official route rather than relying solely on page-provided details. Where a particular jurisdiction imposes marketplace registration or consumer-protection requirements, the relevant registry should be checked for the applicable entity.
- The homepage exposes one search/booking form and no sensitive form destination outside the trusted site flow.
- The terms, booking, cancellation, refund, and privacy disclosures are the relevant pages for validating the transaction relationship and consumer protections.
- The available identity evidence supports an established site classification but does not independently verify the operator connection.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture for ordinary interaction. No scam or impersonation contradiction was identified, but the operator’s real-world identity is not independently verified, so legitimacy should be treated as evidence-consistent rather than proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed edge addresses rather than an observable origin server. The infrastructure resolves through AS16509, operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in the United States; this protective architecture mitigates direct origin exposure but is not, by itself, proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and standard booking activity are proportionate to the available risk assessment, subject to ordinary independent checks of merchant identity, transaction terms, and payment protection before credentials or funds are committed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-10 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 | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- 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 airbnb.cn.
- The request stayed on airbnb.cn. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under 阿里云计算有限公司（万网）. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by alidns.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-02-26. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-02-24. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | 阿里云计算有限公司（万网） |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 166.117.189.176 |
| Name servers | vip3.alidns.com, vip4.alidns.com |
| SSL issuer | DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-22 |
| Domain age | 17.46 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-02-26 |
| Archive first seen | 2011-02-24 |
| Archive snapshots | 1392 |
| 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 airbnb.cn 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.