Verdict
evansvilleevents.com 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 | Community events and ticketing page for Evansville, IN listing festivals, races and other local activities. Contains sign-in/create-account links, contact phone and email, cookie notice, and sponsorship mentions. Powered by TicketSignup. |
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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 | 1 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 16 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2011Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2011.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Evansville Events is a local community-events and ticketing website for Evansville, Indiana, presenting festivals, races, food-related activities, sponsorship information, and event registration through a visitor-facing events directory.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: the available evidence shows no phishing, brand impersonation, conflicting legal identities, or confirmed blacklist finding. The homepage contains ordinary local-event content, sign-in and account-creation links, contact facilities, and event registration functionality, but the captured page did not contain a login form, sensitive form, hidden form, or external password-submission mechanism. One uncorroborated external reputation signal recorded a malicious classification; it was not supported by the other reputation checks, page-level findings, or the absence of observed abuse patterns, so it is treated as a soft reputational anomaly rather than evidence of impersonation or fraud.
- Homepage: presents Evansville festivals, races, food events, event dates, venue locations, and registration prompts without detected phishing or impersonation indicators.
- Homepage behavior: no hidden forms, wallet activity, clipboard manipulation, password forms, cloaking, or suspicious inline scripts were detected.
- Domain registration: created 2011-01-18 and currently approximately 15.59 years old.
- Archive history: 98 snapshots spanning 2011–2026, covering 16 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site appears to operate as a local events information and ticket-registration service rather than a disclosed regulated financial business. Its pages provide About Us, Contact Us, staff-resource, and event information, but the real-world operator is not independently verified in the available evidence. No licensing claim or license number is recorded; for this business model, that is a transparency item requiring ordinary merchant and organizer checks, not evidence of a scam. A separate broker-reputation check returned no match, which provides limited contextual support but is not a legal, licensing, or regulatory determination.
- Registration record: registrar listed as Bluehost Inc.; registration expires 2027-01-18.
- Hosting telemetry: served from AS14618, AMAZON-AES – Amazon.com, Inc., US.
- Transport security: TLS certificate issued by YR2 with DV validation, valid to 2026-10-07T08:12:51+00:00.
- Homepage and informational navigation: include About Us, Contact Us, Help, event information, and staff-resource references.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, independently confirm the legal identity of the event organizer and the party responsible for ticket fulfillment. Review the applicable cancellation, refund, and event-change terms, and ensure that any payment method provides appropriate transaction protection. Contact details should be confirmed through an independent channel or an established local source rather than relying solely on information presented on the website.
- Homepage: identifies Evansville, Indiana as the service location and displays specific scheduled community events.
- Registration flow: directs visitors toward event sign-up and account functions, making organizer and payment responsibility checks relevant before purchase.
- Site content: references sponsorships and event-related services, so the responsible commercial party should be confirmed for each transaction.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. The site’s apparent legitimacy is not equivalent to independently verified proof of the real-world operator, so identity confidence remains qualified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by AWS CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed traffic associated with Amazon’s edge network and no direct origin server identified in the collected infrastructure view. This architecture is a mitigating security signal because it can reduce direct origin exposure, but it does not independently establish the operator’s legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary use is proportionate to the assessment, with independent merchant-identity, refund-policy, and payment-protection checks completed before submitting credentials or payment details.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-19 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 evansvilleevents.com.
- The request stayed on evansvilleevents.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Bluehost Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by inmotionhosting.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-01-18. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-02-15. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-AES, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Bluehost Inc. |
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| Hosting | AMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 3.210.169.147 |
| Name servers | NS1.INMOTIONHOSTING.COM, NS2.INMOTIONHOSTING.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-07 |
| Domain age | 15.59 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-01-18 |
| Archive first seen | 2011-02-15 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 1 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about evansvilleevents.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.