Verdict
coingecko.com 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 | A comprehensive cryptocurrency market-data platform page showing aggregated live prices, rankings, market cap, trending coins, features (API, apps, premium) and explanatory content about how prices are calculated. Typical data-portal UI with login/signup calls-to-action and links to developer/API products. |
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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 | 12 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20145000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | 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 2014.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
CoinGecko is a cryptocurrency market-data platform presenting live and historical prices, charts, rankings, market-cap information, exchange coverage, and educational content, with an apparent business model based on information services and related digital products.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent cryptocurrency data and research service, with no detected phishing, brand-impersonation, malicious-content, or suspicious-behavior indicators. The available external reputation evidence is clean, and the site's long-running historical presence is consistent with an established service rather than a recently created impersonation. The real-world operator identity remains only apparently connected to the service and is not independently verified.
- The homepage was classified as a cryptocurrency market-data and aggregator service, with no page-level red flags or suspected brand impersonation.
- The domain was registered in 2014 and is approximately 12.39 years old; archived records contain 5,000 snapshots spanning 2014–2024, with 11 years tracked.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, with no external blacklist or phishing indication.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site operates primarily as an informational cryptocurrency data platform rather than presenting itself as a broker, exchange, or other regulated financial intermediary. Its pages identify API, premium, advertising, and enterprise-data offerings, but no licensing claim or license number is presented in the supplied content; this is a regulatory-transparency point to resolve if the proposed engagement involves paid services, financial reliance, or regulated activity. The available evidence is otherwise consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website, while the operating entity itself is not independently verified.
- The homepage and product navigation identify developer API services, pricing, premium access, applications, advertising, and enterprise offerings.
- The supplied site content contains no claimed license authority or license number.
- The domain is registered through NAMECHEAP INC and is scheduled to expire on 2027-03-26T13:49:24Z.
- The site's transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by WE1, valid to 2026-10-20T10:53:09+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, independently confirm the merchant or contracting entity, applicable terms and return or cancellation provisions, and the payment-protection arrangements for any subscription or enterprise purchase. Where a regulated service is being contemplated rather than ordinary data access, confirm the relevant licensing position with the applicable official registry. Contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route before resolving account or billing issues.
- The site exposes login and signup functionality on the homepage, making independent confirmation of the intended account destination appropriate before credential submission.
- The pricing, premium, and enterprise-service pages provide the relevant basis for checking billing, cancellation, and contractual terms.
- The site's API and business-service pages provide the appropriate scope for confirming whether any proposed use falls within a regulated activity.
Summary Verdict
Overall posture is high trust and low risk. Available evidence is strongly consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website, and no scam, phishing, impersonation, or identity-conflict indicators were observed. The classification supports ordinary use, subject to routine independent checks where credentials or payments are involved.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare's CDN and WAF, with observed delivery through Cloudflare edge infrastructure. This provides a meaningful defensive and availability benefit but is a mitigating technical control, not proof of operator identity.
- Served from AS13335 (Cloudflare); hosting provider identified as CLOUDFLARENET — Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- The observed Cloudflare edge IPs include 104.18.4.118, 104.18.5.118, 104.21.51.42, and 172.67.220.182.
- TLS validation level is DV; the certificate issuer is WE1 and its expiry is 2026-10-20T10:53:09+00:00.
Closing Assessment
Proceed with normal, proportionate use, while completing independent merchant-identity, contractual, and payment-protection checks before credential or payment interactions.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-11 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 | 40% |
- Trusted social count=5
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 coingecko.com.
- The request stayed on coingecko.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under NAMECHEAP INC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-03-26. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2014-04-10. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | NAMECHEAP INC |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700::6812:476 |
| Name servers | DORA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, RICK.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-20 |
| Domain age | 12.39 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-03-26 |
| Archive first seen | 2014-04-10 |
| Archive snapshots | 5000 |
| 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 coingecko.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.