Verdict
brokenlanterntattoo.com 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 | Broken Lantern Tattoo is a long-standing Charleston, SC tattoo shop providing in-person tattoo services, artist bios, a gallery, contact info, and blog posts. The site lists phone, email, and a street address and appears to be a legitimate local business. |
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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 | 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 | 16 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2011205 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2011.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Broken Lantern Tattoo is a Charleston, South Carolina tattoo-studio website presenting in-person tattoo services, artist portfolios, gallery work, appointment and walk-in availability, contact information, and blog content for prospective local clients.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No phishing, impersonation, malicious-content, or other contradiction signals were observed. The homepage describes a conventional local-service business and identifies tattoo artists, gallery content, booking options, and a Charleston location rather than soliciting credentials, cryptocurrency, or unusual financial payments. Promotional statements such as “Charleston’s Best,” “world-renowned artists,” and awards-based claims are marketing assertions, but they do not establish an identity conflict or impersonation pattern. Limited behavioral anomalies were recorded—a suspicious inline script and substantial DOM mutation—but these were not accompanied by external data submissions, hidden forms, wallet activity, cloaking, or credential capture. Available reputation checks also recorded no malicious or suspicious detections.
- Homepage: describes Broken Lantern Tattoo as a Charleston tattoo studio offering custom designs, appointments, walk-ins, artist services, and gallery content.
- Behavioral telemetry: 1 suspicious inline script and a maximum post-interaction DOM difference of 665; 0 external XHR requests, 0 non-whitelisted external POSTs, 0 hidden forms, and 0 wallet-provider or drainer events.
- Registration record: registered 2010 (~16.03 years old) through GoDaddy.com, LLC, with an expiration date of 2027-08-11.
- Web archive: 205 snapshots spanning 2011–2026, covering 16 years with a maximum observed gap of 1 year.
Regulatory Verification Notes
This is a local tattoo-service business rather than a site presenting financial or investment products. The available content does not provide a licensing authority or registration number; that is a regulatory-transparency item to confirm with the relevant local authority, not evidence of deception. The real-world operator identity is likely but not independently verified, so the site's apparent legitimacy should not be treated as proof of the legal entity behind it. The named artist profiles, consistent business presentation, long-running domain continuity, and clean available reputation signals support an established-site interpretation.
- Artists pages: provide individual profiles for Glenn Collins, Shane Watkins, Hailey Quesenberry, Wyatt Hughes, and Lexie Zinsmaster.
- Site content: presents a local-business model based on tattoo services, appointments, walk-ins, and custom artwork, with no license authority or registration number stated.
- Transport security: TLS certificate issued by YR2 using DV validation, valid to 2026-10-28.
- Social links: the site connects to Facebook and Instagram, supplying channels for independent business-identity comparison.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an independent check should confirm that the Charleston business address, telephone details, artist listings, and social profiles correspond to the same operating studio. The applicable South Carolina or local tattoo and public-health licensing requirements should be checked with the relevant government registry, and any booking, deposit, cancellation, refund, and payment-protection terms should be confirmed before funds are committed. Contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route, such as a directory listing or direct telephone call.
- Contact page: provides the business contact and booking pathway used for independent comparison.
- Homepage: states that both appointments and walk-ins are accepted, making the booking and cancellation terms relevant to confirm.
- Contact-form analysis: 1 form was detected and classified as a non-sensitive contact form, with no password or external sensitive-data submission identified.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate local-business website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. No scam, impersonation, phishing, or identity-contradiction signals were observed, although the operator’s real-world identity remains not independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is hosted by InMotion Hosting, Inc. in the United States, with no CDN or WAF edge layer identified and a directly resolved hosting address. This conventional hosting arrangement does not prove legitimacy, but the identified provider, stable delivery, and valid transport encryption are technically consistent with normal business-site operation.
- Hosting: served from AS54641 (IMH-IAD - InMotion Hosting, Inc., US).
- Network resolution: 1 unique IP, 0 edge IPs, and 1 likely origin IP were recorded.
- Transport security: TLS issuer YR2, validation level DV, valid through 2026-10-28.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary browsing and service inquiries are proportionate to the assessed posture; before credentials or payment details are provided, independent merchant-identity, service-term, and payment-protection checks should be completed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 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 | LIKELY |
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| Identity score | 76/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 38% |
- Trusted social count=2
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 brokenlanterntattoo.com.
- The request stayed on brokenlanterntattoo.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by inmotionhosting.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-08-11. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-03-06. Clear
- It is hosted on IMH-IAD, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
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| Hosting | IMH-IAD - InMotion Hosting, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 209.182.214.101 |
| Name servers | NS1.INMOTIONHOSTING.COM, NS2.INMOTIONHOSTING.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-28 |
| Domain age | 16.03 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-11 |
| Archive first seen | 2011-03-06 |
| Archive snapshots | 205 |
| 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 brokenlanterntattoo.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.