Verdict
artbykristin.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 | Artist/photographer site promoting portrait, family, wedding, and event photography with starting prices and direct contact information (email and phone). No forms or payment flows visible on the captured page. |
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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 | 2 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 31% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 34 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 13 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2004Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | 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 2004.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Art By Kristin is a photography and creative-services portfolio presenting portrait, family, lifestyle, wedding, food-photography, Photoshop, film, and oil-painting work, with session offerings and starting prices intended to generate paid photography bookings.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site's captured homepage presents a coherent small-business photography model and showed no login form, hidden sensitive form, wallet activity, or page-level impersonation indicators. Nevertheless, the external evidence contains a confirmed blacklist finding, including two malicious detections and one suspicious detection, creating a material contradiction that outweighs the otherwise benign presentation. Separate abuse reports concern a shared Squarespace provider address rather than a uniquely attributed site asset; this limits their evidentiary precision but does not remove the confirmed blacklist concern. The real-world operator identity remains unverified, so the site's portfolio and branding should not be treated as proof of identity.
- The homepage is categorized as a photography-services portfolio, with no login form, hidden form, or sensitive input detected.
- External reputation evaluation recorded 2 malicious and 1 suspicious detections for the site.
- The site was identified on an external blacklist; the related provider-IP signal records 34 abuse reports against shared infrastructure.
- Domain registration records show registration on 2013-09-29, with an age of 12.9 years; archive records show 161 snapshots spanning 2004–2026, with 22 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The captured site does not present a license claim, licensing authority, or registration number. For a photography service, that omission is primarily a transparency and identity-verification gap rather than standalone evidence of fraud, but it is significant given the unresolved external reputation contradiction. Registration through TUCOWS.COM, CO. and use of Contact Privacy Inc. Customer 0152019566 are administrative details; they do not independently establish the operator behind the site. The available evidence therefore supports only an apparent photography business, not a verified legal entity or regulated status.
- The homepage supplies service descriptions and pricing but does not display a license, licensing authority, or registration number.
- The domain registrar is TUCOWS.COM, CO.; the recorded registration expires on 2026-09-29.
- The site is hosted by SQUARESPACE - Squarespace, Inc., US, on AS53831.
- The site's transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YR1, valid through 2026-11-13.
What to Verify Next
Before any paid booking or transmission of sensitive information, independently confirm the photographer's legal name, business registration where applicable, service location, cancellation terms, and refund arrangements. Any payment should use a method offering meaningful dispute or chargeback protection, and official contact channels should be confirmed through an independent route rather than relying solely on the captured webpage. If the engagement involves a jurisdiction-specific professional or commercial requirement, the relevant registry should be checked directly.
- The homepage presents paid photography services and starting prices, making independent confirmation of the contracting party and transaction terms appropriate.
- The captured page contains direct contact details but no booking form or payment flow, so the actual contracting and payment process was not observed.
- The site's identity-verification status is unverified, and no independent legal-entity signal is recorded.
Summary Verdict
The website has a plausible photography-business presentation but remains low trust for sensitive interaction because confirmed external threat detections and blacklist status conflict with its benign page content. The available evidence does not establish that the apparent business operator is the legitimate real-world entity behind the domain.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to Squarespace infrastructure operated by Squarespace, Inc. in the United States, with AS53831 identified and four likely origin candidates rather than a separately identified CDN edge layer. This is a conventional hosting context and a limited mitigating factor, but hosting infrastructure cannot validate the site's ownership or override the external reputation findings.
Closing Assessment
Passive review may continue, but account creation, credential submission, and financial transactions should be deferred until the contracting identity, contact channels, and payment protections have been independently confirmed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 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
- Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE - The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 34 reports on hosting IP 198.185.159.144 (Squarespace, Inc., Content Delivery Network), 31% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 25% |
- 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 artbykristin.com.
- The request stayed on artbykristin.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under TUCOWS.COM, CO.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by nsone.net, across 8 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-09-29. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2004-03-24. Clear
- It is hosted on SQUARESPACE, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | TUCOWS.COM, CO. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | SQUARESPACE - Squarespace, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 198.185.159.144 |
| Name servers | DNS1.P04.NSONE.NET, DNS2.P04.NSONE.NET, DNS3.P04.NSONE.NET, DNS4.P04.NSONE.NET, NS01.SQUARESPACEDNS.COM, NS02.SQUARESPACEDNS.COM, NS03.SQUARESPACEDNS.COM, NS04.SQUARESPACEDNS.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-13 |
| Domain age | 12.90 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-09-29 |
| Archive first seen | 2004-03-24 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 31% confidence, 34 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about artbykristin.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.