Verdict
airbnb.de 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 | Localized Airbnb homepage showing vacation rental listings, hotels and destination suggestions in German. Includes pricing, review scores, and site/footer links to support, policies and company info. |
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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 | Not availableNo registration record was returned | Noted |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| 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.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
This German-language website presents a peer-to-peer accommodation marketplace with vacation rentals, hotels, destination suggestions, booking dates, prices, host classifications, and guest review scores. Its apparent business model is to connect hosts and guests while facilitating listings, reservations, payments, service commissions, and related host services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No phishing, impersonation, blacklist, or other identity contradiction was observed. The homepage’s content is internally coherent with a mature travel marketplace: it displays accommodation listings, total prices, host types, destination searches, and guest ratings rather than deceptive investment, cryptocurrency, or credential-harvesting functionality. The absence of a login form, hidden form, external password destination, wallet connection, or suspicious browser behavior further supports a low apparent scam risk, although the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
- The homepage displays German-language accommodation listings, booking dates, total prices, host classifications, and guest ratings.
- The homepage analysis found no phishing indicators, hidden forms, sensitive forms, wallet activity, clipboard manipulation, or cloaking.
- External reputation checks recorded no confirmed blacklist or phishing result; one isolated malicious classification was not corroborated by the broader evaluated signals.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site links visitors to support, policies, and company-information content, and its observed business model is a travel marketplace rather than a claimed regulated financial service. No licensing or registration number is presented in the supplied page evidence; this is a disclosure item for ordinary merchant and corporate verification, not evidence of a scam. The available technical and commercial signals are consistent with an established website, while the certificate’s organization name and the site’s branding should not by themselves be treated as conclusive proof of the real-world operator. A single unconfirmed external reputation signal is a soft contextual concern, offset by the absence of confirmed blacklist findings, the absence of abuse reports, and the coherent page content.
- The homepage and footer provide links to support, policies, and company information.
- Hosted on AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US).
- TLS certificate: DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1, OV validation, subject organization Airbnb, Inc., valid to 2026-10-22.
- The analyzed site has an established commercial marketplace classification with no page-level red flags.
What to Verify Next
Before credentials or payment interactions, independently confirm that the accessed domain is the organization’s official regional web property, review the applicable company and booking terms, and confirm cancellation, refund, dispute, and payment-protection arrangements. For regulated or jurisdiction-specific services, licensing should be checked directly with the relevant official registry where applicable. Contact channels should be confirmed through an independently sourced official route rather than relying solely on page content.
- The homepage identifies the service as a travel marketplace and exposes policy and company-information links.
- The booking interface presents listing-level prices, dates, host classifications, and guest ratings that can be checked against the terms governing a specific reservation.
- The observed page behavior completed successfully without external password forms or wallet-sensitive actions.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture for the observed browsing experience. 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 Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed edge servers from Cloudflare and Amazon-associated infrastructure. This provides a meaningful mitigation against direct exposure and common delivery-layer abuse, but protective hosting infrastructure is not, by itself, proof of organizational legitimacy.
- Cloudflare CDN/WAF detected.
- Six CDN edge IPs and one likely origin candidate were observed among seven unique IPs.
- The resolved infrastructure includes Amazon-associated hosting in the United States.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary browsing is proportionate to the current assessment; before submitting credentials or making a payment, the prospective user should complete the independent merchant-identity, contractual-terms, and payment-protection checks described above.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-11 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.de.
- The request stayed on airbnb.de. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by nsone.net, across 8 name servers. Noted
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 166.117.189.176 |
| Name servers | dns1.p01.nsone.net, dns2.p01.nsone.net, dns3.p01.nsone.net, dns4.p01.nsone.net, ns-1087.awsdns-07.org, ns-1877.awsdns-42.co.uk, ns-394.awsdns-49.com, ns-949.awsdns-54.net |
| SSL issuer | DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-22 |
| Domain age | Not available (no registration date was returned) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| 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 airbnb.de 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.