Verdict
cloudtools.co.za is moderately trusted.
Most signals looked ordinary, and some evidence was missing. Read the checks below before you pay or hand over personal details.
| What this site appears to be | Cloud Tools promotes wholesale VoIP and IPTV reseller programs, including subscription pricing, reseller requirements, and related telecom, internet, hosting, SMS, and office products. |
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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 | 9.2 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2017494 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by R13 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Safe for Read-Only.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2017.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Cloud Tools is a South African telecom and hosting reseller website presenting wholesale VoIP, IPTV reseller access, airtime, internet connectivity, hosting, SMS, office, and related products. Its apparent business model is to enroll resellers who purchase services or airtime and set their own retail prices.
No phishing, impersonation, or identity-contradiction signals were observed. The site has a sustained operating history and presents a coherent reseller model, but its requirement for payment before service, unclear value flow, and unsubstantiated commercial claims create moderate transaction risk. The homepage advertises wholesale VoIP at 35c per minute and R300 per channel per month, alongside IPTV reseller opportunities; these offerings should be treated as commercial services requiring verification rather than as evidence of fraud. No malicious or suspicious detections were identified in external reputation checks.
The site provides service descriptions and reseller pricing but does not substantiate IPTV licensing, legal status, or the basis for claims associated with reseller income and service rights. This is a regulatory and transparency verification gap, not evidence of impersonation or fraud. The stated VoIP and hosting offerings are sufficiently concrete for commercial due diligence, while the IPTV component warrants confirmation of authorization and content rights before onboarding.
Confirm the operating entity, reseller agreement, payment terms, service-level commitments, and IPTV distribution rights through independently obtained corporate and regulatory records. Before material payment or enrollment, validate that the published contact channels and billing details resolve to the same contracting entity.
Cloud Tools presents as an established but only moderately substantiated commercial reseller platform. No active threat or identity-contradiction indicators were observed, while the business model and disclosure limitations prevent a high-confidence trust conclusion.
The site resolves directly to one likely origin address in South Africa and is not behind a detected CDN or WAF. Hosting through TELECLOUD and the identified ASN provide a consistent technical footprint, while the valid DV certificate supports encrypted transport but does not independently establish organizational legitimacy.
Standard browsing and account access may proceed within ordinary controls, but independent confirmation is appropriate before significant payment, reseller enrollment, or other high-value commitments.
- The homepage presents VoIP and IPTV reseller programs with stated pricing and reseller enrollment.
- The domain was registered on 2017-05-09 and is approximately 9.24 years old.
- Historical records show 494 snapshots across 10 tracked years, from 2017-10-30 through 2026-05-18.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections.
- The homepage identifies VoIP, IPTV, telecom, internet, hosting, SMS, and office products but provides no supported license or registration detail in the supplied content.
- The site is hosted on AS328227, TELECLOUD (PTY) LTD - TELECLOUD (PTY) LTD, ZA.
- Transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by R13, valid to 2026-08-13.
- The site’s third-party broker context contains no matching result.
- The homepage provides reseller pricing, airtime expiry terms, and service inclusions that can be checked against the written agreement.
- The homepage directs prospective resellers to contact and signup pathways but does not supply independently substantiated legal-status information.
- The site includes a client-login pathway, while automated testing observed no sensitive form submission or external credential-posting behavior.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-01 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 cloudtools.co.za.
- The request stayed on cloudtools.co.za. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Telecloud. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by co.za, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-05-09. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2017-10-30. Clear
- It is hosted on TELECLOUD (PTY) LTD, from a server in ZA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Telecloud |
|---|---|
| Hosting | TELECLOUD (PTY) LTD - TELECLOUD (PTY) LTD, ZA |
| Country | ZA |
| Server IP | 156.0.96.71 |
| Name servers | host1.cloudtools.co.za, host3.cloudtools.co.za |
| SSL issuer | R13 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-08-13 |
| Domain age | 9.2 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-05-09 |
| Archive first seen | 2017-10-30 |
| Archive snapshots | 494 |
| 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 cloudtools.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.