Verdict
appskottage.com is low-trust and potentially risky.
Several risk patterns were present. Do not send money or personal details until you have verified this business another way.
| What this site appears to be | Marketing and portfolio site for AppsKottage, a mobile app development firm. Contains descriptions of services, sample apps, testimonials and contact details (phone, email, address). No forms or payment flows detected. |
|---|
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 | 3 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 11 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2015470 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | 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 2015.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This website presents AppsKottage as a mobile application design and development firm, showcasing services, portfolio applications, testimonials, and contact details for prospective clients seeking app development and distribution support.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is a corporate portfolio for an app-development agency and does not show a login form, payment flow, wallet connection, or other obvious on-page phishing mechanism. However, the wider evidence contains confirmed blacklist findings and multiple external malicious or suspicious detections, creating a material contradiction that the benign presentation does not resolve. The historical record shows sustained domain activity without evidence of suspicious repurposing, but that positive provenance signal does not neutralize the external threat reputation. No brand-impersonation signal was identified in the reviewed page content.
- The homepage describes mobile application design and development services and displays portfolio items including Water Reminder, Noor, and Grid Art.
- Behavioral inspection of the homepage recorded no login form, hidden form, external password submission, wallet activity, or payment flow.
- The domain was identified by multiple external reputation sources as blacklisted, with malicious and suspicious detections present.
Regulatory Verification Notes
AppsKottage is presented as a commercial technology-services firm rather than a regulated financial provider. The About and Contact material identifies the AppsKottage brand and provides business contact details, but the reviewed site does not independently establish the legal operator and does not present a license or registration number; this is a disclosure gap requiring verification rather than proof of wrongdoing. A separate broker-reputation dataset produced no matching result, which is only contextual and does not constitute licensing or regulatory confirmation. The domain and transport infrastructure provide established technical continuity, but neither registration duration nor a valid TLS certificate proves the identity of the operating entity.
- The registration record shows creation on 2017-02-24 and an age of 9.49 years; registrar: Bluehost Inc.
- The archive contains 470 snapshots from 2015-03-07 through 2026-02-14, with 12 years tracked.
- The site is served from AS31898, ORACLE-BMC-31898 / Oracle Corporation, US.
- The TLS certificate was issued by YR2 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-11-03T22:32:51+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive engagement, the prospective counterparty should confirm the legal entity behind AppsKottage through an applicable corporate registry and validate the stated business contact channels using an independently sourced route. Any proposed contract should identify the contracting entity, service obligations, dispute terms, ownership of delivered code, and payment protections. If the site later introduces account access, credential collection, or payment requests, those functions should be separately validated before use.
- The About and Contact pages provide the primary business and identity disclosures available on the site.
- The reviewed pages contain no independently verified authorization or registration reference.
- The visible service model is client-contract based, so contractual entity and payment safeguards are material verification points.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated sensitive-interaction risk. The site has a coherent corporate presentation and sustained technical history, but the confirmed external reputation contradictions prevent the available evidence from supporting a trustworthy engagement conclusion or independently verified operator identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves through a single directly served infrastructure path, with no detected CDN or WAF edge layer and no separate origin candidates identified. This offers limited infrastructure-based mitigation and should not be treated as evidence of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Pending independent confirmation of the operating entity and proposed engagement terms, interaction should remain limited to non-sensitive inquiry, with no credentials or funds provided.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership, analysis engine.
01 Governance Risk
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat
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 appskottage.com.
- The request stayed on appskottage.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Bluehost Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by bluehost.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-02-24. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2015-03-07. Clear
- It is hosted on ORACLE-BMC-31898, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Bluehost Inc. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | ORACLE-BMC-31898 - Oracle Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 162.241.218.220 |
| Name servers | NS1.BLUEHOST.COM, NS2.BLUEHOST.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-03 |
| Domain age | 11.46 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-02-24 |
| Archive first seen | 2015-03-07 |
| Archive snapshots | 470 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 3 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about appskottage.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.