Verdict
caroldavisafaris.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 | Marketing/booking landing page for Carol and Davis Tours & Travel offering East Africa tour packages (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda). Contains package categories, booking CTAs and social links; limited structural detail on payments or physical address visible in the provided content. |
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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 | 1% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 4 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 19 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2011Public history exists | 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.
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
Full analysis
Overview
caroldavisafaris.com is a travel and tour-booking website for Carol and Davis Tours & Travel, presenting East Africa holiday experiences across Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, with booking-oriented calls to action for safari, trekking, camping, beach, and city-excursion services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent travel-business model rather than a credential-harvesting, investment, cryptocurrency, or impersonation scheme; no login form, sensitive form, hidden form, brand-impersonation indicator, or suspicious browser behavior was identified. Available external checks produced no malicious or suspicious detections and no confirmed blocking-list finding. Four abuse reports are associated with shared data-centre hosting infrastructure, not specifically attributed to the website, so they are a limited infrastructure-reputation signal rather than evidence of site-level abuse.
- The homepage presents East Africa travel packages and booking calls to action, with no page-level fraud indicators reported.
- The homepage behavior showed no login form, sensitive form, hidden form, wallet activity, clipboard manipulation, cloaking, or suspicious inline scripts.
- Domain registration records show registration in 2007, with an age of approximately 18.78 years.
- Archive coverage records a first observation on 2011-02-01, a latest observation on 2026-04-11, and 16 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available evidence is consistent with an established small tour operator, but the real-world operator identity is not independently verified. The site identifies itself as Carol and Davis Tours & Travel and links to established social platforms, while the available legal and identity material does not provide a licensing authority or license number. This is a transparency and verification matter for a travel merchant, not by itself evidence of a scam. Registration privacy is an administrative limitation, and the domain is registered through NameSilo, LLC. The site’s transport encryption and stable hosting provide additional technical legitimacy signals, although neither proves the operator’s legal identity. No contextual broker-dataset match was identified.
- The domain registrar is NameSilo, LLC; the recorded creation date is 2007-11-16T14:25:14Z and the recorded expiry date is 2026-11-16T14:25:14Z.
- The site is hosted on AS28753, Leaseweb Deutschland GmbH, Germany.
- The site uses a DV TLS certificate issued by YR2, valid to 2026-10-02T06:33:12+00:00.
- The homepage, destinations pages, privacy page, and contact page provide the visible site structure, but the supplied content does not show a licensing authority or license number.
What to Verify Next
Before credentials or payment details are exchanged, an independent check should confirm the merchant’s legal identity through an offline or independently sourced contact route. The booking process should also be checked for written cancellation, refund, itinerary-change, and payment-protection terms, with any proposed payment destination confirmed as belonging to the same merchant. Where local tourism licensing applies, the relevant official registry should be consulted using the operator details supplied independently of the website.
- The contact page is the designated route for booking and business communication.
- The homepage and package presentation contain booking calls to action but limited visible detail on payment mechanics and physical business address.
- The privacy page is present and should be reviewed alongside any booking or payment terms before a transaction.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk. Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate travel website, while the operator’s real-world identity remains likely rather than independently verified. No scam, phishing, impersonation, or identity-contradiction indicators were observed.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to one likely origin with no detected CDN edge layer. That architecture offers less intermediary shielding than a CDN-backed deployment, but the resolved infrastructure is stable and does not, on the supplied evidence, create a material trust concern.
- Infrastructure resolution identified 1 unique IP, 0 edge IPs, and 1 likely origin IP.
- The hosting country is Germany, with the infrastructure registered through RIPE NCC.
Closing Assessment
Prospective customers should complete ordinary independent merchant-identity, cancellation-policy, and payment-protection checks before submitting credentials or making payments.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 4 reports on hosting IP 84.16.251.118 (Leaseweb Deutschland GmbH, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 1% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 80/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 40% |
- Trusted social count=4
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 caroldavisafaris.com.
- The request stayed on caroldavisafaris.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under NameSilo, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by rcnoc.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-11-16. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-02-01. Clear
- It is hosted on LEASEWEB-DE-FRA-10, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | NameSilo, LLC |
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| Hosting | LEASEWEB-DE-FRA-10 - Leaseweb Deutschland GmbH, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 84.16.251.118 |
| Name servers | RS61.RCNOC.COM, RS62.RCNOC.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-02 |
| Domain age | 18.78 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-11-16 |
| Archive first seen | 2011-02-01 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 1% confidence, 4 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about caroldavisafaris.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.