---
title: "Is firesidelodge.net Safe? Risk Report, Score 25/100"
source: TrustSniffer
type: Website trust & fraud report
subject: "firesidelodge.net"
verdict: "Low Trust"
title: "Is firesidelodge.net Safe? Risk Report, Score 25/100"
trust_score: 25
classification_confidence: 75
canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/firesidelodge.net
assessed: 2026-08-21
---

# Is firesidelodge.net safe? TrustSniffer's low-trust assessment: 25/100

## Verdict


**Verdict: Low Trust, trust score 25/100.** firesidelodge.net is low-trust and potentially risky.

Several risk patterns were present. Do not send money or personal details until you have verified this business another way.

Labels: Sensitive Interaction Risk, Governance Risk

Assessed 2026-08-21 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 75%.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| What this site appears to be | Commercial website for Fireside Lodge in Big Bear Lake providing information about the lodge, amenities, room types, and an on-site booking/search form for reservations. |

## 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.

| Check | Result | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Malware engines | 4 flagged it (VirusTotal) | Risk |
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reports (AbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count) | Noted |
| Domain age | 27 years old (Registered history) | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2001 (298 snapshots) | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by WE1) | Noted |

## The page as captured


![Screenshot of the firesidelodge.net homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/firesidelodge.net/screenshots/first.png)

_What firesidelodge.net served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-08-21. The page may look different now._

## Key findings


- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2001.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.

## Full analysis


### Overview

firesidelodge.net presents itself as the commercial website for Fireside Lodge in Big Bear Lake, offering cabins, suites, lodge amenities, local-area information, and an on-site availability search for direct accommodation reservations.


### Scam/Impersonation Risk

The site's visible content is consistent with a conventional hospitality business and does not show a brand-impersonation pattern, login form, wallet connection, or other obvious credential-harvesting mechanism. However, the domain has a **confirmed blacklist status** supported by multiple external reputation detections, including malicious classifications, creating a material contradiction that outweighs the otherwise ordinary lodging presentation. Runtime observation also identified suspicious network activity, non-whitelisted requests and posts, substantial DOM changes after interaction, and repeated console errors; these signals do not establish the site's intent individually, but they reinforce the need to restrict sensitive interaction. No identity contradiction between legal entities or page-level impersonation finding was observed. Evidence:

- External reputation evaluation recorded 4 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection; external blacklist status was true.
- The homepage presents Fireside Lodge as a Big Bear accommodation business with room reservations and guest amenities, while page analysis recorded no brand-impersonation finding.
- The site's runtime behavior recorded 3 external XHR requests, 4 non-whitelisted external requests, 2 non-whitelisted external POSTs, 20 console errors, and a maximum post-interaction DOM difference of 497 elements.
- Domain registration continuity: Registered 2000-01-24 (~26.59 years old) through GoDaddy.com, LLC; 298 archive snapshots spanning 2001-04-13 to 2026-06-06 (26 years tracked).

### Regulatory Verification Notes

The apparent business model is direct lodging rather than a regulated financial service. The available About, Contact, and booking content identifies the property as Fireside Lodge but does not clearly present a corporate legal entity, registration identifier, or licensing disclosure; this is a transparency gap requiring independent confirmation, not by itself evidence of fraud. The real-world operator identity remains unverified, and the site's domain registration privacy is an administrative limitation rather than an identity contradiction. Evidence:

- The site's About and Contact navigation identifies the property and its accommodation services but does not display a clearly stated legal-entity name or registration number in the captured content.
- Hosting resolved to AS398787, GoDaddy.com, LLC, United States.
- TLS used a DV certificate issued by WE1, valid to 2026-11-12T01:07:36+00:00.

### What to Verify Next

Before making a reservation or providing payment information, independently confirm that Fireside Lodge currently operates at the advertised Big Bear Lake location and that its booking and cancellation terms are consistent with the property’s independently sourced details. Confirm the receiving merchant name, refund process, and payment-protection options before completing a transaction. If a local lodging registration or business authorization is required, check the relevant municipal or state registry using the independently confirmed operator name. Evidence:

- The booking page provides an availability search covering check-in, check-out, occupancy, promotional code, and room type.
- The site's internal navigation includes separate About, Contact, and Book a Room pages, providing locations for comparison against independently sourced property information.
- The captured page set contains no external social-profile links, structured business data, or clearly displayed legal-entity identifier.

### Summary Verdict

The overall posture is **low trust with elevated risk for sensitive interactions**. The site's hospitality presentation is plausible, but the confirmed external reputation contradictions require the website to be treated as unsuitable for credentials, payment, or other high-impact activity until independently resolved.


### Infrastructure Integrity

The site resolves directly to one GoDaddy-hosted IP on AS398787, with no CDN detected and no separate edge-IP layer identified. TLS is active, but its domain-validation level confirms transport encryption only and does not establish operator legitimacy; the hosting arrangement therefore offers limited mitigation against the established reputation concerns.


### Closing Assessment

Passive viewing is the proportionate immediate use; account creation, credential submission, and financial transactions should remain suspended until independent property, operator, and payment-channel checks are satisfactorily completed.


_Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report._

## What the analysis found

2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership, analysis engine, behaviour in a sandbox, external reputation.

### 01 Governance Risk
- Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check. (Registration and ownership `rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE`)
- The registration record withholds contact details for the operator. (Registration and ownership `rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN`)

### 02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor. (Analysis engine `signal:direct_threat`)
- The page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS`)
- The structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE`)
- A large share of what the page loaded came from other domains. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_MODERATE`)
- 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


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| 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 firesidelodge.net.

- The request stayed on firesidelodge.net. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear)
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. (Clear)
- DNS for this domain is served by mediatemple.net, across 2 name servers. (Noted)
- The registration is paid up to 2027-01-24. (Noted)
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2001-04-13. (Clear)
- It is hosted on GO-DADDY-COM-LLC, from a server in US. (Noted)

## Domain intelligence


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
| Hosting | GO-DADDY-COM-LLC - GoDaddy.com, LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 45.40.155.190 |
| Name servers | NS1.MEDIATEMPLE.NET, NS2.MEDIATEMPLE.NET |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-12 |
| Domain age | 26.59 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-01-24 |
| Archive first seen | 2001-04-13 |
| Archive snapshots | 298 |
| 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 firesidelodge.net 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.

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*Source: [TrustSniffer](https://trustsniffer.com/report/firesidelodge.net) — independent automated trust & fraud analysis. Cite as https://trustsniffer.com/report/firesidelodge.net · assessed 2026-08-21.*