Verdict
artiste360.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 | Artiste360 is an art school in Mumbai advertising courses, portfolio services, workshops and mentorship. The page contains descriptions, testimonials, contact details and studio address; no obvious financial or credential-harvesting risks detected. |
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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 | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 7.6 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2019Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2019.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Artiste360 is a Mumbai-based art school website presenting paid art and design courses, portfolio-development services, workshops, mentorship, testimonials, and contact pathways for prospective students.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content does not show brand impersonation, conflicting legal identities, login functionality, or credential-harvesting forms. However, the domain is subject to a confirmed blacklist result, with multiple external detections recording malicious and suspicious classifications. This is a material contradiction to the otherwise benign educational presentation and warrants a security-forward posture; the site should not be treated as trustworthy for sensitive interactions solely because its pages appear professional.
- External reputation checks recorded 2 malicious detections, 2 suspicious detections, and a confirmed blacklist result for the domain.
- The homepage contains one contact/newsletter form, with no login form, hidden form, or sensitive password-submission flow detected.
- Archive records show 20 snapshots spanning 2019–2026, covering 8 years of tracked activity.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage presents Artiste360 as an educational business offering courses across 2D, 3D, and digital media, portfolio guidance for art institutes, workshops, and individually tailored mentorship. The site provides contact details and a Mumbai studio location, but no license, registration number, or accrediting authority is claimed in the supplied pages. That is a disclosure gap requiring independent confirmation rather than proof of misconduct. The apparent business identity is supported only on a likely, not independently verified, basis. Technical continuity signals are comparatively ordinary: the domain is long-established, registered through GoDaddy.com, LLC, and uses valid domain-validated transport encryption, but these facts do not establish the operator’s real-world identity or regulatory standing.
- Domain registered 2019-01-04T14:02:53Z; age 7.63 years; registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC; expiry 2027-01-04T14:02:53Z.
- Served from AS16276 (OVH - OVH SAS, FR).
- TLS certificate issued by YR2 with DV validation, valid to 2026-11-03T21:03:40+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any enrollment, payment, or submission of personal information, an independent party should confirm that the Mumbai studio, instructors, course schedule, fee recipient, cancellation terms, and refund process correspond to a separately obtained business record. Any claimed educational affiliation or accreditation should be checked directly with the named institution, and payment should use a method offering meaningful dispute protection. Official contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route rather than relying solely on the website.
- The homepage identifies the business as an art school in Mumbai and describes both online and offline learning.
- The site offers course, portfolio-development, workshop, and mentorship conversion paths rather than a regulated financial service.
- The supplied analysis found no independently verified regulatory source or accrediting authority associated with the site.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated risk for sensitive interaction. The site’s coherent educational presentation and stable technical operation do not offset the confirmed external reputation contradiction, and the available evidence is insufficient to treat the apparent operator identity as verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by a CDN/WAF layer, with the observed edge address 148.113.35.111 associated with AS16276 and OVH - OVH SAS, FR; the origin server was not observable in this analysis. This infrastructure provides a mitigating layer against direct exposure but is not evidence of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Interaction should be restricted to passive review until the operator, payment arrangements, and service terms have been independently confirmed; credentials, personal information, and financial details should not be submitted in the interim.
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
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 73/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 37% |
- Trusted social count=1
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 artiste360.com.
- The request stayed on artiste360.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by serverhostgroup.com, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-01-04. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2019-11-14. Clear
- It is hosted on OVH, from a server in CA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | OVH - OVH SAS, FR |
| Country | CA |
| Server IP | 148.113.35.111 |
| Name servers | NS1.SERVERHOSTGROUP.COM, NS2.SERVERHOSTGROUP.COM, NS3.SERVERHOSTGROUP.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-03 |
| Domain age | 7.63 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-01-04 |
| Archive first seen | 2019-11-14 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about artiste360.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.