Verdict
champagne-michael-hautem.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 | Official website of Champagne Michael Hautem, a family-run champagne producer in Villers-Marmery (France). Contains winery presentation, news, product/cuvée listings and an online boutique, contact details, social links and an age-verification prompt. No investment, crypto, or credential-harvesting activity 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 | 9.7 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2018Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | 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 2018.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
What appears to be the official website of Champagne Michael Hautem, a family-run champagne producer in Villers-Marmery, France, presenting its domaine, cuvées, winery news, tastings, oenotourism activities, contact information, and an online boutique for direct product sales.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is consistent with a small producer-led ecommerce website and does not present investment, cryptocurrency, credential-harvesting, or other overtly abusive functionality. The homepage also contains no detected brand-impersonation or phishing indicators. However, this benign page presentation is outweighed by material external threat intelligence: the domain has two malicious detections and is recorded on external blacklists. These are direct reputation contradictions that warrant a security-forward posture despite the site’s apparently coherent business purpose. No conflicting legal-entity names were observed across the supplied identity-related material.
- External reputation records show 2 malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist status for the domain.
- The homepage presents a winery and product-boutique model, with no sensitive login form, hidden form, wallet connection, or credential-collection behavior detected.
- The domain was registered on 2016-12-09 and is approximately 9.7 years old.
- Archival records show 48 snapshots spanning 2018–2026, with 9 years tracked; no suspicious business-purpose repurposing was identified in the available historical analysis.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site provides links to legal notices and general sales conditions, and identifies the operation as Champagne Michael Hautem with a family-run producer presentation. The available material does not independently verify the real-world operator, and no licensing or regulatory registration number is shown in the supplied page evidence. That is a transparency and verification issue rather than, by itself, proof of fraud. A non-matching third-party broker dataset provides no additional reputational match. The transport and hosting signals are technically coherent, but they do not resolve the external blacklist concern.
- The site links to “mentions-legales” and “cgv” pages, alongside dedicated contact and boutique pages.
- The domain is registered through OVH, SAS.
- It is hosted on AS48813, ENIX-AS – Enix SAS, France.
- The TLS certificate is issued by YR1 at DV validation level and is valid until 2026-10-06.
What to Verify Next
Before any purchase or submission of personal or payment information, the operator’s legal identity should be checked against the relevant French business and alcohol-commerce registries, and the boutique’s sales, delivery, refund, and age-verification terms should be reviewed for consistency with that identity. Payment processing should be limited to established, protected methods, with the final merchant name checked before authorization. Official contact channels should be confirmed through an independent route, and the external blacklist status should be resolved or explained before sensitive engagement.
- The boutique page is the relevant location for reviewing product checkout and merchant-payment details.
- The “mentions-legales” and “cgv” pages are the relevant sources for legal identity, seller terms, delivery, and refund information.
- The contact page and linked social profiles provide channels that can be cross-checked independently.
- The site’s only detected form is an age-verification prompt; no sensitive form was identified during the technical interaction review.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated sensitive-interaction risk. The site appears to represent a plausible champagne producer, but that apparent legitimacy is not sufficient to overcome the confirmed external reputation contradictions. Identity association remains likely rather than independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is not using a detected CDN or WAF layer and resolves to one likely origin IP, 185.145.249.114, in France. The hosting arrangement is identifiable and technically stable, but direct origin exposure offers less protective separation than an established edge-delivery architecture and should be treated only as infrastructure context, not as evidence of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Passive browsing may be retained for information gathering, but account creation, credential submission, and payment activity should be withheld until the external reputation issue and the operator’s legal identity have been independently resolved.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 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, behaviour in a sandbox.
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 - The page carried inline scripts written in a style TrustSniffer treats as suspicious.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_SUSPICIOUS_INLINE_SCRIPTS
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 champagne-michael-hautem.com.
- The request stayed on champagne-michael-hautem.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under OVH, SAS. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ovh.net, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-12-09. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2018-02-03. Clear
- It is hosted on ENIX-AS, from a server in FR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | OVH, SAS |
|---|---|
| Hosting | ENIX-AS - Enix SAS, FR |
| Country | FR |
| Server IP | 185.145.249.114 |
| Name servers | DNS20.OVH.NET, NS20.OVH.NET |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-06 |
| Domain age | 9.70 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-12-09 |
| Archive first seen | 2018-02-03 |
| 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 champagne-michael-hautem.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.