Verdict
combishades.com shows high-risk / scam indicators.
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
| What this site appears to be | Combi Shade is a manufacturer/seller of window shading products with product descriptions, a how-to-buy flow through local dealers, and a fabricator partner recruitment program. Contact address, phone, and email are provided; limited SEO metadata present. |
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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 | 10 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 14 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2015Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2015.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Combi Shade is a manufacturer and seller of window-shading products, presenting roller shades, Triple Shade, and Veilette products alongside a local-dealer purchasing process and a fabricator-partner recruitment program. Its apparent business model is product sales and partner distribution rather than financial services or credential-based online account activity.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is consistent with a small product manufacturer and does not display a login form, sensitive form, wallet connection, or obvious credential-harvesting mechanism. However, this benign page presentation is outweighed by multiple external threat detections and confirmed blacklisting of the domain, which create a material risk for sensitive interaction. No separate identity inconsistency or brand-impersonation signal was observed, but the external reputation findings are sufficient to support a clearly cautionary posture. The domain’s established registration history is a contextual positive signal, not a counterweight to the confirmed threat indicators.
- The homepage presents window-shading products, including Roller Shade, Triple Shade, and Veilette, and describes a fabricator-partner application process.
- The homepage contains no login form or sensitive submission form; behavioral inspection also detected no hidden forms, password-external forms, wallet-provider activity, or clipboard hijacking.
- External reputation results recorded 10 malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist status for the domain.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site identifies itself through product, contact, dealer, and partner-program content, but the available evidence does not independently verify the real-world operator behind the website. No financial, investment, or regulated-service license claim is presented, so the principal regulatory issue is disclosure and entity verification rather than proof of a regulated activity. The absence of a broker-dataset match provides no regulatory endorsement. A valid domain registration and transport certificate are positive technical facts, but neither establishes ownership or legal authority.
- The homepage and contact content present a product-manufacturer model with contact address, telephone, and email details.
- The site’s published content does not state a license authority or registration number.
- The domain was registered on 2013-02-12 through GoDaddy.com, LLC; the recorded domain age is 13.53 years.
- The site is served from AS398101, GoDaddy.com, LLC, US; its TLS certificate is issued by YR1 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-11-01T16:02:42+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any transaction or business-partner engagement, an institution should independently confirm the operating company named in the site’s commercial documentation, validate any applicable product-safety or business registrations with the relevant authority, and confirm that the published contact channels are genuine through an independently sourced telephone number or offline business record. Payment processing should use protections that permit dispute or chargeback handling, and any proposed partner arrangement should be documented through independently verified corporate representatives.
- The site’s How to Buy and Contact pages provide the stated route for dealer engagement and commercial communication.
- The partner-recruitment content requests an application and proposes a “profitable program” and “revenue potential,” making independent confirmation of the contracting entity particularly relevant.
- The site’s transport certificate is DV rather than an organization-validated certificate, so it confirms encrypted transport but not the legal identity of the operator.
Summary Verdict
The website has a product-focused presentation and some conventional technical characteristics, but its overall trust posture is critical, driven by corroborated external threat detections and confirmed blacklisting. The operator’s real-world identity remains unverified, and the site should not be treated as sufficiently trusted for sensitive interaction.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to one hosting address on GoDaddy.com, LLC’s AS398101 in the United States. No CDN was detected and the resolved address is assessed as a likely origin address; this provides limited infrastructure-layer mitigation and does not offset the domain’s external reputation risk.
Closing Assessment
Restrict activity to passive review until the external threat status is independently resolved and the operating entity is confirmed; credentials, payment details, and other sensitive information should not be submitted.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership, analysis engine, behaviour in a sandbox, external reputation.
01 Governance Risk
- Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE - The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - The page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS - A large share of what the page loaded came from other domains.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_MODERATE - An external threat feed lists this domain: either Google Safe Browsing marked it malicious, or a significant number of malware engines flagged it.External reputation
rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_CRITICAL
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 25% |
- 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 combishades.com.
- The request stayed on combishades.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by domaincontrol.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-02-12. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2015-12-06. Clear
- It is hosted on GO-DADDY-COM-LLC, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
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| Hosting | GO-DADDY-COM-LLC - GoDaddy.com, LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 97.74.185.57 |
| Name servers | NS15.DOMAINCONTROL.COM, NS16.DOMAINCONTROL.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-01 |
| Domain age | 13.53 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-02-12 |
| Archive first seen | 2015-12-06 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 10 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about combishades.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.