Verdict
clearaccess.co.za 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 | Clear Access corporate website offering fibre and connectivity services in South Africa. Contains marketing copy, product pages, newsroom articles, and contact/subscribe forms. No evidence in the provided HTML of credential harvesting, payment requests to third-party wallets, or impersonation. |
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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 | 16 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2012251 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by RapidSSL TLS RSA CA G1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2012.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Clear Access is a South African corporate telecommunications website presenting fibre broadband, residential and business connectivity, wholesale carrier services, cloud and hosting solutions, voice services, hardware, and managed IT offerings. Its apparent business model is the provision of contracted connectivity, infrastructure, hardware, and business technology services to organisations and residential customers.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The website consistently presents itself as Clear Access, a South African connectivity provider, and the supplied page content contains no evidence of impersonation, phishing, credential harvesting, third-party wallet payment requests, or other high-risk abuse patterns. Its service catalogue, newsroom, contact routes, and business-oriented marketing are coherent with the stated telecommunications model, while external reputation checks returned no malicious or suspicious findings.
- The homepage and service pages identify the business as Clear Access and describe fibre, connectivity, cloud, hosting, voice, hardware, and wholesale services.
- The page analysis found no login form, hidden form, password-exfiltration form, wallet connection, wallet drainer, or cloaking behaviour.
- Domain registration: 2010-10-29T11:11:03Z; age 15.79 years.
- Web-archive history: 251 snapshots from 2012-07-14T00:03:45Z through 2026-07-28T17:09:40Z, spanning 15 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The legal and identity structure is coherent at the website level: the site provides dedicated terms-and-conditions, privacy-policy, about, contact, and service pages under the Clear Access identity. The supplied content does not state a licence number or specific regulatory authorisation; this is a verification and disclosure point rather than evidence of deception. The domain, hosting, and transport signals provide affirmative support for an established operating presence, including registration through Clear Access (PTY) LTD and a valid certificate issued by a recognised certificate authority. No broker-dataset match was identified; that result is contextual reputational information and is not a licensing determination.
- Domain registrar: Clear Access (PTY) LTD; creation date 2010-10-29T11:11:03Z; expiration date 2026-10-29T11:11:03Z.
- Hosted on AS327794 (Clear Access (Pty) Ltd - Clear Access (Pty) Ltd, ZA), registered through AFRINIC.
- TLS certificate issued by RapidSSL TLS RSA CA G1 with DV validation, valid to 2027-01-07T23:59:59+00:00.
- The site contains linked terms-and-conditions and privacy-policy pages, alongside service enquiry and contact pages.
What to Verify Next
For regulated procurement or material contractual commitments, confirm which South African telecommunications authorisations apply to the specific service being purchased and obtain the corresponding details from the relevant official registry or directly from the provider’s documented corporate channels. The applicable service terms, service-level commitments, data-processing provisions, renewal conditions, and billing arrangements should also be reviewed before execution.
- The website provides separate business fibre, residential fibre, wholesale, cloud, hosting, voice, and hardware service areas for scope-specific review.
- The contact and enquiry pages provide a formal route for service discussions rather than directing visitors to an unrelated destination.
- The terms-and-conditions and privacy-policy pages are available for contractual and data-handling review.
Summary Verdict
Clear Access presents as a legitimate, established, and trustworthy corporate service provider with a coherent identity and no observed scam or impersonation indicators. Normal interaction, including account login where applicable and standard use of the site’s services, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website resolves directly to infrastructure operated by Clear Access rather than through a detected third-party CDN or WAF, with one identified origin endpoint. This is a straightforward hosting architecture and does not create an identity concern; the valid TLS deployment provides transport protection, while operational resilience and exposure management remain primarily dependent on the provider’s own network controls.
- Direct resolution identified one origin IP, 45.221.84.26, with zero detected CDN edge IPs.
- No CDN or WAF vendor was detected in the supplied infrastructure assessment.
- Network resolution status: resolved; hosting country: ZA.
Closing Assessment
Prospective customers and business counterparties may proceed with normal website interaction and should complete the usual service-specific contractual and regulatory checks before entering a material commercial commitment.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-10 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 clearaccess.co.za.
- The request stayed on clearaccess.co.za. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Clear Access (PTY) LTD. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by co.za, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-29. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2012-07-14. Clear
- It is hosted on Clear Access (Pty) Ltd, from a server in ZA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Clear Access (PTY) LTD |
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| Hosting | Clear Access (Pty) Ltd - Clear Access (Pty) Ltd, ZA |
| Country | ZA |
| Server IP | 45.221.84.26 |
| Name servers | visp.clearaccess.co.za, moon.clearaccess.co.za, eya.clearaccess.co.za, unuptanium.clearaccess.co.za |
| SSL issuer | RapidSSL TLS RSA CA G1 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-01-07 |
| Domain age | 15.8 years |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-29 |
| Archive first seen | 2012-07-14 |
| Archive snapshots | 251 |
| 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 clearaccess.co.za 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.