Verdict
alannahrobins.com shows high-risk / scam indicators.
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
| What this site appears to be | Personal website for Alannah Robins, an artist and activist. Contains biography, artist statement, projects, residencies and acknowledgements. Powered by WordPress. |
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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 | 5 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 18 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2012Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 | 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 2012.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This is a personal portfolio website for Alannah Robins, presenting her work as an artist, activist, and singer through biography, artist statements, projects, exhibitions, residencies, press material, and contact information. Its apparent purpose is informational and professional promotion of a creative practice, with no direct investment, trading, or ecommerce proposition identified.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s current content is consistent with an artist portfolio and does not present a login flow, sensitive form, financial solicitation, or apparent brand impersonation. However, this benign page profile is outweighed by a confirmed blacklist hit and multiple external malicious detections, creating a material contradiction between the site’s presentation and its broader reputation. The real-world operator identity also remains unverified; the available evidence does not establish that the person named on the site is independently connected to the domain. The appropriate posture is therefore strongly cautionary for credentials, account access, payments, or other sensitive interactions.
- The homepage identifies “ALANNAH ROBINS | artist / activist / singer” and describes artistic work, exhibitions, awards, and the Interface artist-in-residence programme.
- The external reputation assessment records a confirmed blacklist hit, with 5 malicious and 2 suspicious detections among evaluated results.
- Domain registration continuity records creation on 2008-10-20, making the domain approximately 17.84 years old.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available pages describe a personal artistic practice rather than a regulated financial or investment service, and no licensing claim is presented. That context reduces the relevance of financial licensing expectations but does not resolve the confirmed reputation contradiction or independently verify the operator. The site uses ordinary WordPress presentation and valid transport encryption, while the certificate is domain-validated rather than an identity-validated certificate. Registration is through Register.com - Network Solutions, LLC, with registrant details recorded as “Statutory Masking Enabled”; this is an administrative registration characteristic, not evidence of misconduct.
- The site is hosted on AS29550, SIMPLYTRANSIT - Team Blue Carrier Limited, GB.
- TLS uses a DV certificate issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, valid to 2026-10-23T23:59:59+00:00.
- The registration record lists Register.com - Network Solutions, LLC as registrar and records the creation date as 2008-10-20T20:50:06Z.
- The About, Vitae, and Contact content supports a personal portfolio presentation but does not independently verify the domain operator’s legal identity.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, independently confirm that the named artist or organisation controls the domain through an established offline or separately sourced channel, such as a venue, institution, agency, or professional profile contacted without relying solely on the website. Any proposed commission, booking, sale, or payment should be supported by independently confirmed contractual terms, refund conditions, and payment protections. Official contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent source before they are used for consequential communication.
- The About and Vitae pages provide the principal identity narrative requiring independent confirmation.
- The Contact page is the relevant channel for validating whether proposed communications originate from the claimed operator.
- The site’s stated business context is commissions, exhibitions, residencies, and related creative activity rather than a regulated financial service.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical and unsuitable for sensitive interaction on the evidence available. The site’s credible-looking portfolio presentation does not overcome the confirmed external reputation contradiction, and the operator’s identity remains unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to a single directly hosted endpoint with no CDN or WAF identified. Its hosting infrastructure is therefore not providing a material protective mitigation against the reputation risk, and the presence of valid TLS should be treated as transport protection only, not as proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Passive viewing is the proportionate interim use; credentials, payments, and other consequential interactions should remain withheld until independent operator confirmation and transaction safeguards are established.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
1 finding contributed to this verdict, raised by analysis engine, external reputation.
01 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - An external threat feed lists this domain: either Google Safe Browsing marked it malicious, or a significant number of malware engines flagged it.External reputation
rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_CRITICAL
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 alannahrobins.com.
- The request stayed on alannahrobins.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Register.com - Network Solutions, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by dnsireland.com, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-20. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2012-08-14. Clear
- It is hosted on SIMPLYTRANSIT, from a server in IE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Register.com - Network Solutions, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | SIMPLYTRANSIT - Team Blue Carrier Limited, GB |
| Country | IE |
| Server IP | 185.43.232.201 |
| Name servers | NS5.DNSIRELAND.COM, NS6.DNSIRELAND.COM, NS7.DNSIRELAND.IE |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-23 |
| Domain age | 17.84 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-20 |
| Archive first seen | 2012-08-14 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 5 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about alannahrobins.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.