Verdict
cliniclowns.cw 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 | Official-looking site for CliniClowns Curaçao: describes mission, activities, events, volunteer information, and solicits donations. Provides physical address, phone, email, and multiple bank account numbers. |
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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 | 13 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2014Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | 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 2014.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
cliniclowns.cw is a nonprofit charity website for CliniClowns Curaçao, presenting its mission, clown visits, events, volunteer opportunities, stories, contact information, and donation facilities. Its apparent business model is donor-funded service delivery supporting performances and visits for children, older people, hospital patients, care-home residents, and other vulnerable individuals.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No scam, phishing, blacklist, or brand-impersonation contradictions were observed. The homepage’s charitable mission, service descriptions, events, volunteer content, and donation request form a coherent nonprofit profile rather than a scheme promising financial returns. The site also presents no login form, hidden sensitive form, wallet-connection flow, or suspicious script behavior. Available evidence therefore supports an apparently legitimate, low-risk website, while not independently proving the real-world operator’s identity.
- The homepage identifies CliniClowns Curaçao and describes clown visits, professional training, activities for older people, stories, and donation appeals.
- The contact and donation content provides a physical address, telephone contact, email contact, and bank-account details consistent with an operational charity.
- Browser analysis recorded no hidden forms, password-external forms, wallet-provider activity, clipboard manipulation, or suspected brand impersonation.
- The domain’s archival record contains 72 snapshots spanning 2014–2025, with 12 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available pages present a charitable purpose and operational information, including “Over de CliniClowns,” “Bestuur & Management,” contact, events, and donation sections. They do not present a licensing claim or license number; for a nonprofit, the relevant question is whether the organization’s registration and fundraising status can be independently matched to the applicable Curaçao records. This is a disclosure and verification matter, not evidence of scam activity. The site’s apparent legitimacy is supported by substantial page content, a long-established registration continuity, clean available reputation signals, and stable mainstream hosting; the operator’s real-world identity remains unverified.
- The homepage was captured successfully with HTTP status 200 and contains 3,626 characters of substantive page text.
- The domain age is 12.61327857631759 years, based on registration continuity.
- The site is served from AS13335, CLOUDFLARENET – Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- The transport certificate is issued by WE1, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-10-23T19:44:45+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before a donation or credential-bearing interaction, an organization name and registration details should be matched independently against the relevant Curaçao nonprofit or corporate registry. Donation bank-account ownership should be confirmed through an independently sourced organizational contact route, and the payment method should provide appropriate donor protections. Official support and contact channels should also be confirmed through an offline or independently obtained source.
- The site includes dedicated “Over de CliniClowns” and “Bestuur & Management” sections suitable for identity cross-checking.
- The donation facility is presented through a dedicated “Doneer” pathway and a donation button rather than a financial-return or investment offer.
- The available reputation review recorded zero AbuseIPDB reports and a whitelisted Content Delivery Network usage classification for the observed infrastructure.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and a high-trust, low-risk posture. No scam or impersonation contradictions were observed. The conclusion concerns the website’s trust posture and does not constitute independent proof of the real-world operator’s identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare’s CDN/WAF, and all observed addresses were Cloudflare edge servers rather than identified origin infrastructure. This provides a meaningful defensive layer against direct exposure and some common abuse patterns, but protective hosting remains a mitigating technical signal rather than proof of organizational legitimacy.
- Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection was detected across 4 observed edge IP addresses.
- No likely origin IP candidate was identified in the infrastructure observation.
- The infrastructure registry was ARIN, and the hosting country recorded was the US.
Closing Assessment
Routine browsing is proportionate to the available evidence; independent organizational and payment-protection checks should precede donations or any credential submission.
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.
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 cliniclowns.cw.
- The request stayed on cliniclowns.cw. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2014-01-08. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3035::6815:34d5 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-23 |
| Domain age | 12.61 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2014-01-08 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| 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 cliniclowns.cw 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.