Verdict
cummingjuly4parade.com 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 | Local community webpage for the Forsyth County Steam Engine Association describing the Cumming July 4th Parade, registration options, rules, schedule, and contact emails/phone 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 | 3 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| 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 2013Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | 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 2013.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This website is an informational community-event site for the Cumming July 4th Parade, presenting parade schedules, participation instructions, rules, registration materials, and organizer contact details on behalf of the Forsyth County Steam Engine Association.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
A material contradiction is present between the site's benign community-event presentation and external reputation evidence identifying the domain as blacklisted, including multiple malicious detections. The page itself does not present a login form, financial solicitation, payment collection flow, or apparent brand-impersonation indicators, which limits the observable abuse surface; however, those page-level characteristics do not offset the domain-level reputation warning. The published contact address, [email protected], is a contact-channel integrity anomaly because it uses a public mailbox rather than an independently established organizational domain, although this is not by itself evidence of fraud. No separate identity contradiction between legal-entity names was observed.
- The homepage describes the Cumming July 4th Parade and the Forsyth County Steam Engine Association, with registration, rules, schedule, and organizer-contact content.
- External reputation assessment recorded 3 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection, with the domain listed on external blacklists.
- The homepage behavior showed no login form, hidden form, wallet connection, credential submission, or payment-collection mechanism.
- Domain registration telemetry records creation on 2013-03-03 and an age of 13.47 years; archival telemetry records 119 snapshots spanning 2013-07-04 through 2026-06-12 across 14 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents itself as a local association and event organizer rather than as a financial, investment, or otherwise regulated service. Its pages identify the association, a physical address, and event-related contact details, but the real-world operator identity remains unverified and the site does not disclose a corporate registration or licensing reference. This is a transparency and verification gap, not a standalone finding of fraud. No broker-dataset match was identified, so there is no additional broker-specific reputational context to assess.
- The homepage identifies “Forsyth County Steam Engine Association” and provides a Cumming, Georgia address, telephone number, and event information.
- The registration and terms pages provide event-participation materials but no license number, regulator, or corporate-registration reference.
- The domain is registered through eNom, LLC; the site's transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YR2, valid through 2026-11-07.
- Hosting telemetry records AS32244 operated by LIQUIDWEB - Liquid Web, L.L.C., US.
What to Verify Next
Before submitting registration information or relying on the site for official event participation, independently confirm that the association and parade are recognized by the relevant local authorities or event contacts using an offline or separately sourced channel. Confirm the organizer's legal status, the authority of the published registration materials, and the authenticity of the contact channels before providing personal information. Because external reputation systems have recorded malicious activity against the domain, sensitive interactions should be deferred until those checks are complete.
- Compare the parade date, location, organizer name, and registration instructions on the site's homepage with independently sourced local-government or community-event information.
- Validate the association's legal or organizational status through the relevant Georgia or local registry, where applicable.
- Confirm that the registration and terms pages are the current official materials through a separately obtained organizer contact route.
- Review the site's transport certificate and domain registration details at the time of any proposed sensitive interaction.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is moderate trust with elevated sensitive-interaction risk. The site appears to provide ordinary community-event information, but the domain-level reputation contradiction and unverified operator identity prevent it from being treated as a verified institutional endpoint.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is hosted directly by Liquid Web, with no CDN or WAF detected and a single apparent origin endpoint. The valid DV TLS certificate provides transport encryption, but the hosting arrangement itself is only a limited technical-mitigation signal and does not establish legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary public reading may continue, but registration submissions and other sensitive interactions should wait until the organizer, event materials, and contact channels have been independently confirmed.
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.
01 Governance Risk
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - A large share of what the page loaded came from other domains.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_MODERATE
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 cummingjuly4parade.com.
- The request stayed on cummingjuly4parade.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under eNom, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by exacthosting.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-03-03. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-07-04. Clear
- It is hosted on LIQUIDWEB, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | eNom, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | LIQUIDWEB - Liquid Web, L.L.C, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 209.59.191.190 |
| Name servers | NS32.EXACTHOSTING.COM, NS33.EXACTHOSTING.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-07 |
| Domain age | 13.47 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-03-03 |
| Archive first seen | 2013-07-04 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 3 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about cummingjuly4parade.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.