Verdict
ellenmacarthurfoundation.org 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 | The Ellen MacArthur Foundation website presents an established nonprofit focused on advancing the circular economy through research, education, partnerships, and advocacy. The page includes extensive consent-management and third-party analytics or embedded-media integrations. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | 12 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 18 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20103772 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | 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.
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
Full analysis
Overview
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation website is an established nonprofit information platform presenting research, education, partnerships, and advocacy intended to accelerate the transition to a circular economy.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed across the site’s identity, content, reputation, and behavioral signals. The homepage presents a coherent nonprofit purpose, with no phishing indicators, credential-harvesting forms, deceptive financial offers, brand impersonation, or suspicious interaction behavior. Its long-running archival presence and consistent historical continuity further support an authentic, established identity.
- The homepage contains no login form, sensitive form, hidden form, or untrusted submission destination.
- Behavioral testing recorded no wallet activity, clipboard hijacking, cloaking, suspicious scripts, or password submission to external forms.
- The domain was registered on 2008-11-28 and is approximately 17.68 years old.
- Web archives contain 3,772 snapshots spanning 2010-09-05 to 2026-07-26, across 17 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s disclosed purpose is philanthropic, educational, and institutional rather than a regulated financial service. No licensing claim or registration number is presented in the supplied page evidence; this is a limited transparency point, not an indication of misconduct. The site’s established identity, clean external reputation, recognized page authority, and valid transport security provide strong supporting context.
- The homepage identifies the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and provides substantive circular-economy content rather than regulated financial-service offerings.
- Hosting is on AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US).
- The TLS certificate is issued by YE1 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-09-15.
- The site has a high page-authority classification and an established global traffic footprint.
What to Verify Next
For formal donations, partnerships, or institutional engagement, confirm the organization’s current charitable and corporate details through the relevant official registry and validate payment instructions using independently sourced contact channels. Review the consent and privacy settings before enabling optional analytics or marketing cookies.
- The homepage’s consent interface distinguishes necessary, preference, statistics, and marketing cookies.
- The homepage links to established social platforms including LinkedIn, YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook.
- The site uses third-party analytics and embedded-media integrations disclosed through its consent experience.
Summary Verdict
The website presents as a legitimate, established, and trustworthy nonprofit entity with a coherent purpose and no observed scam or impersonation indicators. Normal interaction, including account login where applicable and standard site use, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by a CDN/WAF layer, with the observed edge address 75.2.60.5 associated with Amazon AS16509; the origin server was not observable. This infrastructure reduces direct exposure of the hosting environment and is a mitigating control, but is not independent proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Routine browsing and engagement are appropriate; material donations or institutional commitments should follow the organization’s normal procurement and due-diligence procedures.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-02 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 |
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| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- Trusted social count=3
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 ellenmacarthurfoundation.org.
- The request stayed on ellenmacarthurfoundation.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under IONOS SE. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by googledomains.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-11-28. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2010-09-05. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | IONOS SE |
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| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 75.2.60.5 |
| Name servers | ns-cloud-c1.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-c2.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-c3.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-c4.googledomains.com |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-15 |
| Domain age | 17.7 years |
| Domain expiry | 2028-11-28 |
| Archive first seen | 2010-09-05 |
| Archive snapshots | 3772 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 12 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about ellenmacarthurfoundation.org 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.