Verdict
automotivesuperstore.com.au 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 | Automotive Superstore is an Australian online retailer offering a broad range of car parts, vehicle accessories, car audio, tools, fluids, lighting, electrical components, and car-care products. The page includes vehicle fitment and registration search tools, product categories, account and cart functionality, and click-and-collect 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 2013460 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 2013.
- 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
Automotive Superstore is an Australian online retailer presenting car parts, vehicle accessories, car audio, tools, fluids, lighting, electrical components, and car-care products for direct consumer purchase.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed between the site’s stated automotive-retail purpose, its operational presentation, and the available external signals. The homepage provides vehicle-fitment and registration search tools, product navigation, account and cart functions, contact information, and click-and-collect arrangements consistent with a conventional ecommerce business. No phishing, impersonation, malware, or deceptive financial indicators were identified. One isolated unconfirmed external suspicion signal was not corroborated by malicious detections, blacklist findings, or page-level fraud indicators.
- The homepage presents a coherent automotive ecommerce storefront with vehicle-fitment tools and standard shopping functionality.
- The domain was first observed in 2013, with sustained archival continuity through 2026.
- Archive telemetry records 460 snapshots spanning 14 tracked years.
- External checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 1 suspicious detection, and no blacklist finding.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The business model is ordinary consumer retail rather than a financial or investment service, so the available evidence does not indicate a need for financial licensing. The registration record identifies Automotive Superstore Pty. Ltd. and Web Address Registration Pty Ltd., providing a consistent administrative identity for the trading site. No third-party broker match was identified. Any remaining verification should concern ordinary consumer-commerce matters such as terms, returns, delivery, and warranty conditions rather than presumed regulatory misconduct.
- Registration record: owner Automotive Superstore Pty. Ltd.; registrar Web Address Registration Pty Ltd.
- The site presents no financial-services license claim or license number.
- TLS certificate issued by YE1, validation level DV, valid through 2026-09-06.
What to Verify Next
Before a high-value purchase, the prospective customer should review the applicable delivery, returns, warranty, and click-and-collect terms on the site and confirm that checkout details match the intended order. Any unusual payment request or change to established contact procedures should be confirmed through an independently sourced business channel.
- The homepage exposes standard retail purchasing and collection workflows that can be checked against the order terms.
- The site publishes a telephone contact channel suitable for confirming an unusual transaction or service request.
Summary Verdict
The website presents as a legitimate, established, and trustworthy ecommerce business with a coherent operating model and no observed scam or impersonation contradictions. Normal interaction, including account login and standard purchasing activity, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed traffic terminating on CDN edge servers rather than exposing the origin directly. This provides a meaningful mitigation against routine network abuse and origin exposure, while remaining a protective control rather than proof of business legitimacy.
- Hosted on AS13335 (Cloudflare).
- Observed edge IPs: 172.66.40.213 and 172.66.43.43.
- The origin server IP was not observable in the infrastructure analysis.
Closing Assessment
Standard browsing, account use, and purchasing are appropriate; routine review of order and consumer-service terms remains proportionate for any significant transaction.
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 automotivesuperstore.com.au.
- The request stayed on automotivesuperstore.com.au. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Web Address Registration Pty Ltd. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-08-01. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Web Address Registration Pty Ltd |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3108::ac42:28d5 |
| Name servers | jerome.ns.cloudflare.com, tegan.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-06 |
| Domain age | Not available (no registration date was returned) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2013-08-01 |
| Archive snapshots | 460 |
| 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 automotivesuperstore.com.au 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.