Verdict
exceltips.co.il 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 | Hebrew-language blog and course site focused on Excel tips, VBA and productivity. Contains many dated user comments, CTAs to subscribe to a weekly tips newsletter, and links or mentions of courses and contact email. |
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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 | 15 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2011Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | 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.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is a Hebrew-language educational blog and course platform focused on Excel, VBA, macros, and workplace productivity. It presents free tutorials, user comments, course offerings, testimonials, and an invitation to subscribe to a weekly Excel-tips newsletter, indicating a conventional content-led education and training model.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site’s visible content is coherent with an educational service: it contains substantive Excel guidance, longstanding user commentary, course-related calls to action, and no apparent phishing, impersonation, cryptocurrency, wallet, or concealed credential-collection features. Available external reputation checks identified no malicious or suspicious detections, and the site was not associated with a third-party broker warning. The combination of sustained historical continuity, organic subject matter, and absence of abuse indicators supports a low scam or impersonation concern, while not independently proving the real-world operator’s identity.
- The homepage presents Excel tutorials, VBA and macro topics, course information, testimonials, and a newsletter subscription rather than financial or credential-harvesting functionality.
- The homepage contains dated user comments extending across multiple years, consistent with an established content presence.
- Domain registration continuity dates to 2011; the domain is approximately 14.9 years old.
- The archive record contains 130 snapshots spanning 2011–2026, covering 16 years of tracked activity.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The apparent business is an educational course provider rather than a site presenting itself as a regulated financial or investment service. The available pages identify the educational brand and associate it with Michal David, while the technical registration record lists Michal David as the owner and Domain The Net Technologies Ltd as registrar; however, the evidence does not independently verify the operator’s legal identity. No license or registration number is claimed in the supplied site content. This is a disclosure point for ordinary merchant verification, not evidence of fraud. The site’s on-page disclosure state is therefore best treated as unclear, and any course purchase should be evaluated under normal consumer-service checks.
- The homepage and navigation identify “The Internet College – Michal David” and provide About, Recommendations, Courses, and Contact sections.
- The domain is registered through Domain The Net Technologies Ltd and has an expiration date of 2027-06-14.
- The site is served from AS13335, Cloudflare, Inc.; its transport certificate is issued by WE1 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-10-04.
- The available third-party broker screening returned no match.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an organization should independently confirm the course seller’s legal identity, obtain and retain the applicable refund and cancellation terms, and ensure that the payment method provides suitable consumer protection. Contact details should be confirmed through an independently sourced channel rather than relying solely on information reached through an enrollment flow.
- The Contact and About sections are the relevant pages for confirming the seller’s identity and official communication channels.
- The Courses and enrollment pages are the relevant locations for reviewing pricing, payment handling, refund terms, and cancellation conditions.
Summary Verdict
The website presents an established, apparently legitimate, low-risk posture consistent with the high-trust assessment. Its content, operating history, technical security, and external reputation converge on a normal educational website, although the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare provides the site’s CDN and WAF protection. All observed addresses were CDN edge addresses on AS13335, with no origin candidate observed; this reduces direct exposure of the underlying host but is a mitigating infrastructure control rather than proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational use is proportionate; before submitting credentials or making a payment, ordinary independent checks of the merchant identity, transaction terms, and payment protections should be completed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 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 exceltips.co.il.
- The request stayed on exceltips.co.il. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Domain The Net Technologies Ltd. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-06-14. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-09-25. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Domain The Net Technologies Ltd |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3037::ac43:9334 |
| Name servers | brian.ns.cloudflare.com, vera.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-04 |
| Domain age | 14.90 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-14 |
| Archive first seen | 2011-09-25 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| 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 exceltips.co.il 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.