Verdict
anwaltauskunft.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 | German Lawyers' Association portal featuring a searchable lawyer directory, topical legal articles, practical legal calculators and checklists, association statistics, member access, and organizational information. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | Not availableNo registration record was returned | Noted |
| Web archive | Archived since 1999529 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Public web-archive history exists since 1999.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the Deutscher Anwaltverein’s professional association portal, providing a searchable lawyer directory, legal articles, practical calculators and checklists, member access, and information about the association and its services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No identity contradictions, brand impersonation, phishing behavior, deceptive financial solicitation, or other fraud indicators were observed. The homepage consistently presents a German legal-information and lawyer-discovery service, identifies the responsible professional association, and uses a directory-search form that neither requests sensitive information nor submits data to an untrusted destination. Its long operating history, substantial archival record, established traffic footprint, and clean external reputation strongly support the site’s legitimacy.
- The homepage identifies the service with the Deutscher Anwaltverein and presents lawyer search, legal information, calculators, checklists, association statistics, and member services without detected impersonation indicators.
- Domain provenance records show registration in 1999 and an age of approximately 26.8 years.
- The web archive contains 529 snapshots spanning 8 October 1999 to 29 July 2026, covering 28 tracked years, with no substantiated suspicious repurposing or semantic conflict.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, no malicious safe-browsing finding, no abuse reports, and a global traffic rank of 328,381.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website presents a professional legal association and information service rather than a broker, investment platform, or other financial product provider. No regulatory licence is claimed, and the observed activities do not establish a need for the type of financial-services authorization considered by the supplied broker-intelligence context. Organizational identity is supported by visible imprint, contact, privacy, and accessibility references; the available evidence does not reveal conflicting legal-entity names.
- The homepage describes a network of 253 local lawyer associations, 60,000 members, 31 specialist working groups, and 13 foreign associations.
- The site footer provides organizational, imprint, contact, privacy, and accessibility references associated with the identified professional association.
- The hosting infrastructure is served from AS24940, operated by Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YE1, valid until 24 October 2026.
What to Verify Next
For decisions involving the engagement of a particular lawyer, the relevant directory profile should be corroborated against the applicable bar or professional register, since the portal’s legitimacy does not independently validate every listed practitioner’s current status. Fees, scope of representation, professional liability arrangements, and engagement terms should be confirmed directly with the selected firm through its independently established channels.
- The homepage directory supports searches by specialization, language, accessibility, location, and other professional criteria.
- The homepage presents the directory as a discovery service connecting visitors with local lawyers, rather than as the provider of the resulting legal representation.
- The site’s legal articles, calculators, and checklists are general informational resources and do not constitute evidence of an individual practitioner’s mandate or engagement terms.
Summary Verdict
The website is a legitimate, established, and trustworthy professional association portal. Its coherent institutional identity, mature provenance, clean reputation, stable behavior, and non-sensitive service design converge on a high-confidence assessment suitable for normal interaction, including account login and standard use.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site employs a CDN/WAF configuration in front of a Hetzner-hosted edge address, so the origin server was not exposed during observation. This reduces direct origin exposure and complements valid TLS protection, although protective infrastructure is appropriately treated as a security safeguard rather than independent proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users may use the portal normally and should apply ordinary professional-engagement due diligence when selecting and retaining an individual lawyer.
Written analysis generated 2026-07-31 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 anwaltauskunft.de.
- The request stayed on anwaltauskunft.de. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by udag.de, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1999-10-08. Clear
- It is hosted on HETZNER-AS, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 159.69.179.148 |
| Name servers | ns.udag.de, ns.udag.net, ns.udag.org |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-24 |
| Domain age | Not available (no registration date was returned) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 1999-10-08 |
| Archive snapshots | 529 |
| 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 anwaltauskunft.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.