Verdict
checkdomain.de 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 | Public-facing commercial site for domain registration and related hosting/marketing services with pricing, product descriptions, customer reviews and contact details. |
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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 | Not availableNo registration record was returned | Noted |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Checkdomain.de is a public-facing commercial website for domain registration and related web services, presenting domain search and purchase functions alongside web hosting, email hosting, website-builder, online-shop, and marketing offerings. Its apparent business model combines subscription services, one-time domain purchases, and premium web-service packages.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed across the supplied evidence: there were no phishing, brand-impersonation, malicious-content, or external threat detections. The homepage presents a coherent commercial service model with product descriptions, pricing, customer reviews, contact details, and links to Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn. The available evidence is therefore consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
- The homepage is classified as a commercial domain registrar and hosting service, with no detected red-flag or brand-impersonation indicators.
- External checks recorded 0 malicious detections and 0 suspicious detections; the site has a traffic rank of 17424 and is within the top 1 million globally.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site provides visible legal and privacy navigation, including terms and conditions, a privacy notice, cookie controls, and a legal-notice page. However, the reviewed content does not present a licensing authority or license number; for a domain and hosting provider this is a transparency point to resolve according to the specific service and jurisdiction involved, rather than evidence of misconduct. The available third-party broker context contains no matching record, which is only contextual reputational information and not a regulatory determination. The site’s apparent legitimacy is supported by substantive commercial content and clean technical indicators, but operator identity and regulatory standing remain separate questions.
- The homepage exposes links for “T&C,” “Privacy notice,” “Legal notice,” and cookie-consent controls.
- The site is served on AS45012 by CLOUDPIT - dogado GmbH, DE.
- Its TLS certificate is issued by YE1, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-10-24T03:32:04+00:00.
- The reviewed business-model material records no claimed license authority or license number.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an enterprise or consumer counterparty should independently confirm the merchant identity stated in the legal notice, check that the contractual terms and cancellation or return provisions apply to the intended service, and confirm payment protections for the selected transaction. Where a regulated service is being considered, the relevant national or sector registry should be checked for the specific legal entity and activity. Support and account-recovery channels should also be confirmed through an independently obtained route rather than relying solely on contact details encountered during an active transaction.
- The homepage exposes domain-search, pricing, login, customer-area, and contact pathways that can be tested against the contractual and merchant information.
- The site presents subscription and one-time purchase services, making terms, renewal conditions, cancellation rights, and payment-protection checks directly relevant.
- The legal-navigation set includes terms, privacy, and legal-notice pages suitable for independent entity and contract review.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture for ordinary use. The classification is strong, while confidence that the website is independently connected to a specific real-world operator remains qualified rather than proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to a single likely origin address, 31.47.251.5, hosted in Germany by CLOUDPIT - dogado GmbH, with no CDN or WAF detected. This conventional hosting arrangement provides a stable technical service context, but infrastructure alone is a mitigating signal and does not establish the operator’s identity.
- Hosting infrastructure resolved to 31.47.251.5 in Germany, with 1 unique IP and 1 likely origin IP.
- No CDN vendors or edge IPs were detected.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and standard service evaluation are proportionate to the current assessment; independent merchant, contractual, and payment-protection checks should be completed before submitting credentials or authorizing payment.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-17 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 |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 80/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 80% |
- 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 checkdomain.de.
- The request stayed on checkdomain.de. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by 190.98 2a01:4f8:2b02:a88:0:0:0:106, across 2 name servers. Noted
- It is hosted on CLOUDPIT, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDPIT - dogado GmbH, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 31.47.251.5 |
| Name servers | ns2.checkdomain.de 5.9.190.98 2a01:4f8:2b02:a88:0:0:0:106, ns.checkdomain.de 109.237.143.11 2a02:2b80:101:5000:0:0:0:9 |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-24 |
| Domain age | Not available (no registration date was returned) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| 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 checkdomain.de 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.