Verdict
amaa.co.nz 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 | Website for Aotearoa Martial Arts Academy (Shorin Kempo Kaikan) with navigation links, description of the style, class/instructor info and a physical address, phone number and email for contact. |
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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 | 12 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2006Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | 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 2006.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Aotearoa Martial Arts Academy – Shorin Kempo Kaikan is an informational website for a New Zealand martial-arts school, presenting its Shorin Kempo and Chinese Kung Fu–inspired approach, instructor and class information, and an apparent in-person membership-based training model.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site presents a consistent local-academy identity, describes martial-arts instruction rather than a financial or high-risk online service, and provides no login, payment, wallet-connection, or sensitive-data form in the observed experience. Available external checks found no malicious or suspicious detections, no confirmed blacklist hit, and no apparent brand-impersonation pattern; coverage was partial, so this supports—but does not independently prove—the site's legitimacy. The domain's long registration continuity and the absence of detected historical repurposing further support a benign provenance assessment.
- The homepage identifies “Aotearoa Martial Arts Academy – Shorin Kempo Kaikan” and describes self-defence instruction, with no phishing or impersonation indicators detected.
- Interactive testing recorded no login form, hidden sensitive form, external password submission, wallet connection, clipboard manipulation, or suspicious script activity.
- The domain was registered on 2014-07-17 and is recorded as approximately 12.1 years old.
- Historical coverage is recorded from 2006-03-02 through 2026-06-10, spanning 21 years, with no semantic drift or suspicious repurposing detected.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site's stated activity is local martial-arts education and membership-based classes, rather than a service that inherently presents financial licensing requirements. The available pages identify the academy, its instructors and classes, and a physical training venue, but do not independently establish the legal entity operating the site; operator identity therefore remains unverified. No adverse broker-reputation match was identified. This is a transparency and identity-verification matter, not evidence of a scam or impersonation.
- The About, History, The Master, Instructors, and Classes navigation identifies the academy's subject matter and instructional structure.
- The Contact page provides a physical venue in Balmoral, New Zealand, together with telephone and email contact details.
- Registration is recorded through Metaname.
- The site is hosted on AS132347, MIKIPRO-AS-AP – MikiPro Ltd, NZ; its TLS certificate was issued by YR1 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-11-08.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an ordinary independent check should confirm the academy's legal or trading identity, the operating status of the stated venue, applicable membership, cancellation and refund terms, and the payment method's consumer-protection arrangements. Any instructor or association credentials relied upon for enrolment should be confirmed with the relevant issuing organisation through an independently sourced channel.
- The Contact page is the appropriate on-site reference for independently checking the academy's operating details and official communication channels.
- The Instructors and Classes pages identify the services and personnel whose credentials or enrolment terms may require confirmation.
- The site's stated model involves in-person classes and membership fees, making venue, cancellation, refund, and payment-protection checks the relevant due-diligence points.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website with a high-trust and low-risk posture. The site does not exhibit observed scam, phishing, impersonation, or malicious-behaviour indicators, while the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to likely origin infrastructure hosted by MikiPro Ltd in New Zealand on AS132347, with no detected CDN or WAF vendor. Direct origin hosting is an infrastructure characteristic rather than evidence of maliciousness; the presence of valid transport encryption provides a basic protective control for data in transit.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational use appears proportionate, while independent confirmation of the operating entity, service terms, and payment protections should precede credential submission or payment.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 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 amaa.co.nz.
- The request stayed on amaa.co.nz. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Metaname. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by metaname.net, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2006-03-02. Clear
- It is hosted on MIKIPRO-AS-AP, from a server in NZ. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Metaname |
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| Hosting | MIKIPRO-AS-AP - MikiPro Ltd, NZ |
| Country | NZ |
| Server IP | 43.224.120.88 |
| Name servers | ns1.metaname.net, ns2.metaname.net, ns3.metaname.net |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-08 |
| Domain age | 12.10 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2006-03-02 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| 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 amaa.co.nz 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.