Verdict
feedmystartup.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 | FeedMyStartup is a startup and technology blog that publishes articles, reviews, and resources. It accepts submissions and offers newsletter signup; monetization appears to be advertising and sponsored content. |
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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 | 8.7 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2012Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2012.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
FeedMyStartup is an informational startup and technology blog presenting startup news, technology articles, product reviews, business resources, and opportunities to submit startups or apps; its apparent business model is advertising, sponsored content, and paid submissions or listings rather than financial services or transactional commerce.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No scam, phishing, impersonation, or identity-contradiction indicators were observed. The homepage presents ordinary editorial content, including startup, artificial-intelligence, business, and technology articles, and the site does not provide login, wallet-connection, or sensitive credential forms. Behavioral monitoring recorded limited external network activity, including an unapproved external request, but the corrected interpretation treated the behavior as benign; no hidden forms, password submissions, cloaking, clipboard manipulation, or wallet-drainer activity was detected. The available external reputation checks also identified no malicious findings.
- The homepage is categorized as a blog/news page and displays dated articles, reviews, and startup resources.
- The homepage contains one newsletter-subscription form and no sensitive form or login form.
- Domain registration records show registration on 2017-12-12, with an age of approximately 8.69 years.
- Historical records show coverage from 2012 through 2026, representing 15 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents itself as a media and startup-resource publisher, not as a regulated financial or investment service. The available pages expose About Us, Contact Us, Privacy Policy, Write for Us, and submission-related navigation, but the supplied evidence does not independently verify the real-world operator or identify a licensing authority or registration number. That is a transparency point for any paid submission or sponsored-content arrangement, not evidence of deception. Domain registration through GoDaddy.com, LLC and the site’s valid transport encryption provide affirmative infrastructure and continuity signals, while registration privacy is an administrative limitation rather than an identity contradiction.
- The site’s primary navigation links to About Us, Contact Us, Privacy Policy, Write for Us, and startup-submission pages.
- The domain registrar is GoDaddy.com, LLC.
- The site is served from AS47583, Hostinger International Limited, CY.
- The TLS certificate is issued by YE1 at DV validation level and is valid through 2026-10-08.
What to Verify Next
Before any paid listing, sponsorship, or other commercial arrangement, an independent check should confirm the operator’s legal name, business address, applicable tax or business-registration details, and the terms governing publication or refunds. Contact details should be confirmed through an independent route, and payment should use a method providing appropriate dispute and chargeback protection. If the site’s commercial activity expands beyond publishing and advertising, any applicable sector-specific registration should be checked with the relevant official registry.
- The homepage describes startup and app submission opportunities, creating a need to confirm the commercial terms independently.
- The navigation exposes the site’s About Us, Contact Us, Privacy Policy, and Write for Us pages for comparison against independently obtained operator details.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website with a high-trust, low-risk posture. No scam or impersonation contradiction was observed, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified; legitimacy should therefore be described as apparent rather than proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly through Hostinger, with no CDN or WAF vendor detected and four likely origin addresses identified. This means the deployment has less edge-layer shielding than a CDN-backed architecture, but the identifiable hosting arrangement does not itself indicate malicious activity.
- Infrastructure resolution identified 4 unique addresses, all classified as likely origin addresses.
- No edge IPs or detected CDN/WAF vendors were present.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and newsletter interaction are proportionate to the assessed posture; credentials or payment information should be preceded by the ordinary independent identity, terms, and payment-protection checks appropriate to the intended transaction.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 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 | 25% |
- 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 feedmystartup.com.
- The request stayed on feedmystartup.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by dns-parking.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-12-12. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2012-03-19. Clear
- It is hosted on AS-HOSTINGER, from a server in UA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
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| Hosting | AS-HOSTINGER - Hostinger International Limited, CY |
| Country | UA |
| Server IP | 2a02:4780:43:bcf6:40e0:80c7:bb5d:7f44 |
| Name servers | NS1.DNS-PARKING.COM, NS2.DNS-PARKING.COM |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-08 |
| Domain age | 8.69 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-12-12 |
| Archive first seen | 2012-03-19 |
| 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 feedmystartup.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.