Verdict
arcstore.co.za 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 | ARC presents an established beauty retail storefront offering branded cosmetics, skincare, fragrance, haircare, body care, promotions, account services, and store support. |
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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 | 6.0 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2021114 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2021.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
ARC is an established beauty e-commerce storefront presenting branded cosmetics, skincare, fragrance, haircare, body-care products, promotions, customer accounts, order tracking, and physical-store support for direct consumer sales.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions, phishing indicators, impersonation signals, or confirmed malicious reputation findings were observed. The homepage presents a coherent retail model with conventional product categories, recognizable brands, pricing, account functions, and store-support content; its published claims do not rely on investment returns, cryptocurrency, excessive leverage, or other high-risk mechanisms. The site’s continuity, clean external reputation, and absence of a broker identity match support a legitimate interpretation.
- The homepage presents a conventional beauty catalogue, including makeup, skincare, fragrance, haircare, bath and body, gift sets, and named brands.
- The domain was registered on 2020-08-10 and is approximately 5.98 years old.
- Historical records show 114 snapshots spanning 2021–2026, covering 6 tracked years.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, with no blacklist or phishing result.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site operates as a consumer beauty retailer rather than presenting itself as a regulated financial service. The supplied pages do not establish a financial licence or registration claim; this is a transparency item for commercial due diligence, not an identity contradiction. The observed registrar and established infrastructure are consistent with an operating retail business, while the certificate uses domain validation rather than extended organizational validation.
- The domain is registered through xneelo (Pty) Ltd, with an expiration date of 2026-08-10.
- Hosted on AS8075, Microsoft Corporation, United States.
- TLS certificate issued by Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, using DV validation, valid to 2026-10-09.
- No matching entity was found in the supplied third-party broker dataset.
What to Verify Next
Before an initial purchase or account activity, confirm the merchant’s legal seller name, returns and delivery terms, and payment-processing details through the site’s legal and support pages. Brand and store information should also be cross-checked through an independent official retail channel.
- The homepage provides account creation, login, order tracking, wishlist, and basket functions.
- The site identifies physical-store services alongside online retail.
- Product, promotion, brand, and customer-support content is presented as an integrated commercial storefront.
Summary Verdict
The website presents a high-confidence legitimate and established retail posture. Its identity, operating history, page content, reputation, and technical signals converge without observed contradictions, making normal interaction, including account login and standard purchasing, appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed traffic served through Microsoft edge infrastructure and no origin candidate exposed in the analysis. This reduces direct origin exposure and is a mitigating security characteristic, although it is not by itself proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal use is appropriate, with routine confirmation of transaction and merchant details before significant purchases.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-02 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 arcstore.co.za.
- The request stayed on arcstore.co.za. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under xneelo (Pty) Ltd. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by host-h.net, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-08-10. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-03-09. Clear
- It is hosted on MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | xneelo (Pty) Ltd |
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| Hosting | MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 13.107.246.55 |
| Name servers | ns2.host-h.net, ns1.dns-h.com, ns1.host-h.net, ns2.dns-h.com |
| SSL issuer | Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-09 |
| Domain age | 6.0 years |
| Domain expiry | 2026-08-10 |
| Archive first seen | 2021-03-09 |
| Archive snapshots | 114 |
| 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 arcstore.co.za 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.