Verdict
dnaexpert.in 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 | Simple 'coming soon' site for DNA Expert Services in Chandigarh, India. Provides contact email, phone, and address; no interactive forms or e-commerce elements 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 | 4 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 19 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2012Public 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 2012.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
The website is a coming-soon landing page for DNA Expert Services, presenting a local DNA-testing and consultancy business intended to attract prospective customers through basic business contact information rather than through an operational online transaction platform.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site has a critical interaction risk because external threat intelligence recorded malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist status. This is a material contradiction to the otherwise minimal, non-interactive presentation. No conflicting legal-entity names, brand-impersonation indicators, or phishing forms were observed in the supplied page evidence; however, the absence of those specific page-level indicators does not neutralize the confirmed external reputation problem. The domain’s long registration history is a contextual mitigating fact, not evidence that sensitive interaction is safe.
- External reputation assessment recorded 4 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection.
- The domain was recorded as blacklisted by 2 external sources.
- Domain registration telemetry records 2007-10-23, with an age of 18.84 years.
- Archive telemetry records first seen 2012-08-23, last seen 2026-05-09, and 15 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage identifies the business as DNA Expert Services in Chandigarh, India, but the available material does not independently verify the operator’s real-world identity. The page is a sparse coming-soon presentation and does not provide a visible license, registration number, regulator, or substantive legal and service documentation. That is a regulatory-transparency gap requiring verification, rather than standalone proof of fraud. The domain and transport infrastructure contain ordinary establishment signals, including long-term registration and a valid domain-validated certificate, but these technical facts do not establish authorization to provide DNA testing or consultancy services.
- WHOIS records the registrar as Endurance International Group India Private Limited and the registrant organization as DNA EXPERT SERVICES.
- The site is served from AS19871, Network Solutions, LLC, US.
- The transport certificate is issued by YR2, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-09-30 09:07:36 UTC.
- The homepage contains no displayed license, registration number, or regulator identification.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive engagement, an independent check should match DNA Expert Services to a legally registered operating entity and confirm any authorization required for the proposed testing or consultancy services with the relevant Indian authority. Written information should also be obtained on testing methodology, laboratory arrangements, sample handling, privacy, consent, retention, refunds, and dispute resolution. Official contact channels should be confirmed through an independently sourced route before personal, genetic, credential, or payment information is shared.
- Homepage review: the site is marked as coming soon and provides no substantive service, legal, or transaction documentation.
- Homepage review: no login form, sensitive data form, or e-commerce workflow was detected.
- Browser testing: 2 runs completed successfully, with 0 external XHR or fetch requests observed.
- The site’s stated business purpose supports verification of both service scope and applicable authorization before engagement.
Summary Verdict
The website should be treated as an unverified, critically unsafe destination for sensitive interaction. Its apparent local-business presentation is outweighed by the confirmed external blacklist and malicious-detection signals, so legitimacy remains unestablished and the site is not suitable for credentials, financial activity, or disclosure of sensitive personal information.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single origin address and does not use a detected CDN or WAF; the hosting environment is Network Solutions Hosting on AS19871 in the United States. A valid DV certificate provides transport encryption, but the infrastructure offers no protective legitimacy signal capable of offsetting the external reputation findings.
Closing Assessment
Until the independent identity, authorization, and service-handling checks are completed, interaction should remain limited to passive viewing, with no submission of credentials, payment information, or genetic or other sensitive personal data.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
1 finding contributed to this verdict, raised by analysis engine, external reputation.
01 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - 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 | 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 dnaexpert.in.
- The request stayed on dnaexpert.in. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Endurance International Group India Private Limited. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by smnpl.in, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-23. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2012-08-23. Clear
- It is hosted on NETWORK-SOLUTIONS-HOSTING, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Endurance International Group India Private Limited |
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| Hosting | NETWORK-SOLUTIONS-HOSTING - Network Solutions, LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 162.241.115.197 |
| Name servers | ns1.smnpl.in, ns2.smnpl.in |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-30 |
| Domain age | 18.84 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-23 |
| Archive first seen | 2012-08-23 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 4 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about dnaexpert.in 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.