Verdict
cucchiaio.it 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 | Editorial Italian food site (Cucchiaio d'Argento) with extensive recipe listings, seasonal collections, videos and promotions for cookbooks and branded publications. No prompts for financial transactions or sensitive credential requests detected. |
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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 | 27 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20101741 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by R12 | 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 2010.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Cucchiaio d’Argento is an established Italian editorial food website presenting extensive recipe collections, cooking techniques, seasonal menus, videos, food-related articles, and promotions for cookbooks and branded publications. Its apparent business model is consumer-facing publishing supported by advertising, sponsored content, and related book or product sales rather than financial services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent recipe-magazine model, with no detected login form, sensitive credential request, financial solicitation, cryptocurrency feature, or suspicious browser behavior. The site's long registration continuity and sustained historical presence are consistent with an established publication, while external reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious classification. These signals support an apparently legitimate, low-risk website, although they do not independently prove the real-world operator's identity.
- Domain registration record: created 2000-01-11; age 26.61 years.
- Web archive: 1,741 snapshots spanning 2010-02-06 to 2026-07-11, covering 17 years.
- Major reputation checks recorded 0 malicious results, 0 suspicious results, no malicious safe-browsing result, and no external blacklist hit.
- The homepage is classified as “Content / Recipe Magazine” and contains recipes, cooking content, videos, and cookbook promotions without sensitive forms.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site's presented activity is editorial food publishing with advertising and book or branded-product sales, not a regulated financial service. The available evidence is consistent with an established commercial publication, but the operator's real-world identity is not independently verified; registration details should therefore be treated as supporting administrative information rather than conclusive proof of corporate identity. No financial license or registration claim is presented, so regulatory licensing is not established for any activity that might extend beyond the editorial and consumer-commerce model. The absence of a broker-dataset match is contextual reputational information, not a legal or licensing determination.
- Domain registration identifies Gandi SAS as registrar and lists Maria Giovanna Mazzocchi and Editoriale Domus SpA in the registration fields.
- The site's observed server was AS20940, AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL.
- Transport encryption used a DV TLS certificate issued by R12, valid to 2026-08-17T08:33:30+00:00, with 4 days remaining at collection.
- The homepage describes recipes, food articles, videos, advertising, and cookbook or branded-publication promotions rather than a regulated financial offering.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an enterprise or consumer should independently confirm the merchant or publishing entity behind any purchase, review the applicable returns and cancellation terms, and ensure that payment protection is available through the chosen payment method. If the site is used for an activity materially outside the editorial and ordinary product-sales model, the relevant legal entity and authorization should be checked directly with the applicable registry. Current contact channels should also be confirmed through an independently sourced route.
- Independent operator identity remains unverified in the available assessment.
- The homepage contains no sensitive form and no detected login workflow.
- The stated business model is editorial content with advertising and direct sales of books or branded products.
- The observed TLS certificate had 4 days remaining at the time of collection, making current certificate status a relevant operational check.
Summary Verdict
The available evidence supports a high-trust, low-risk posture for Cucchiaio d’Argento as an apparently legitimate editorial website. The site’s coherent purpose, established presence, clean reputation signals, and benign observed behavior converge on normal consumer-facing use, while operator identity uncertainty prevents treating the real-world entity as independently proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
Infrastructure resolution identified Google Cloud Platform, with one resolved likely origin and no detected CDN edge layer. Mainstream cloud hosting is a modest mitigating factor for availability and operational resilience, but hosting infrastructure alone is not evidence of ownership or legitimacy.
Correction: the hosting record for this site names AKAMAI-ASN1, a content delivery network that TrustSniffer now recognises. The statement above that no CDN edge was detected was written before that recognition and does not reflect it. A new analysis restates it from the corrected infrastructure check.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary browsing is proportionate to the assessed posture; before entering credentials or making a payment, standard independent merchant-identity, returns-policy, and payment-protection checks should be completed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-13 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 |
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| 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 cucchiaio.it.
- The request stayed on cucchiaio.it. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Gandi SAS. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by awsdns-29.com. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-10. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2010-02-06. Clear
- It is hosted on AKAMAI-ASN1, from a server in NL. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Gandi SAS |
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| Hosting | AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL |
| Country | NL |
| Server IP | 2.17.100.153 |
| Name servers | ns-1111.awsdns-10.org ns-753.awsdns-30.net ns-1545.awsdns-01.co.uk ns-236.awsdns-29.com |
| SSL issuer | R12 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-08-17 |
| Domain age | 26.61 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-10 |
| Archive first seen | 2010-02-06 |
| Archive snapshots | 1741 |
| 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 cucchiaio.it 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.