Verdict
fixahole.com.au 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.
| What this site appears to be | Website for 'Fix A Hole', a local Melbourne-based wall and ceiling repair service. Contains services list, testimonials, contact details (phone, email, PO Box), and a photo upload quote form. |
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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 | 2 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 17 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2009Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2009.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Fix A Hole is a Melbourne-focused household and commercial property-repair website presenting wall and ceiling repairs, patching, sanding, painting, water-stain treatment, testimonials, and a photo-upload quote process. Its apparent business model is to generate customer enquiries for one-off repair work and maintenance services through telephone, SMS, and contact forms.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is consistent with a local trades service and does not show a login page, payment solicitation, cryptocurrency activity, hidden forms, cloaking, or a page-level brand-impersonation pattern. However, this benign presentation is outweighed by external threat detections, including a confirmed blacklist hit from two external sources and multiple malicious or suspicious classifications. The result is a material risk for sensitive interaction despite the absence of an observed identity contradiction or phishing form on the reviewed pages. The domain’s established registration continuity and archive presence provide provenance context but do not resolve the adverse external reputation signal.
- The homepage presents wall and ceiling repair services, testimonials, and a photo-upload quote form; page analysis identified no login form, hidden form, wallet connection, or brand-impersonation indicator.
- The domain was registered in 2009 and has an authoritative age of 16.82 years.
- Historical records contain 62 archive snapshots spanning 2009–2025, with 17 years tracked.
- External reputation results recorded 2 malicious detections and 2 suspicious detections, together with blacklist hits from 2 external sources.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website presents itself as a local repair contractor rather than a financial or broker service. Its pages provide service descriptions and customer-contact mechanisms, but no licensing authority or license number is claimed in the available content; whether any trade, contractor, or local regulatory requirement applies therefore remains a verification matter rather than proof of misconduct. Independent identity verification is also incomplete: the registration record names Melbourne IT as registrar and Stephen Madjaric as the registrant, but the available evidence does not independently establish that this registrant is the operator of the service. No matching broker-reputation record was identified, which is contextual only and does not constitute legal or licensing confirmation.
- The homepage identifies the business as “Fix A Hole” and describes household and commercial wall and ceiling repairs.
- The available site content contains no stated licensing authority or license number.
- The registration record lists Melbourne IT as registrar and “MADJARIC, STEPHEN” as owner.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YE2, valid to 2026-11-13.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an organisation should independently confirm that the named registrant and the local repair business are connected, using an applicable Australian business or trade registry and an independently sourced telephone or address record. Any quote should be obtained in writing with the legal contracting party, scope of work, payment terms, warranty, and dispute process clearly stated. The official contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route before sending photographs, property information, or payment details.
- The contact page supplies telephone/SMS contact, an email channel, and a PO Box for independent cross-checking.
- The homepage describes a three-step repair process—patch, sand, and paint—that can be matched against the written scope of any quotation.
- The quote workflow is a single file-upload and contact form and does not request passwords or account credentials.
Summary Verdict
The website has a plausible local-service presentation and some enduring technical and registration characteristics, but the confirmed external blacklist and malicious detections control the assessment. The overall posture is low trust, with sensitive-interaction risk and insufficient independent confirmation of the real-world operator.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single hosting address rather than through a detected CDN or WAF. This provides less intermediary protection than a mainstream edge service, while the identified hosting provider and valid DV TLS certificate offer basic technical continuity but do not establish legitimacy.
- Hosted on AS136557, HOST-AS-AP – Host Universal Pty Ltd, AU; resolved server IP: 103.119.109.51.
- The resolved infrastructure is recorded in New Zealand, with no CDN detected and 1 likely origin IP.
- TLS certificate issuer: YE2; validation level: DV; valid through 2026-11-13.
Closing Assessment
Sensitive actions should not proceed on the basis of the website presentation alone; independent identity confirmation and written commercial terms should precede any exchange of property information or funds.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-19 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.
01 Governance Risk
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat
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 fixahole.com.au.
- The request stayed on fixahole.com.au. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Melbourne IT. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by hosting-cloud.net, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2009-10-25. Clear
- It is hosted on HOST-AS-AP, from a server in NZ. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Melbourne IT |
|---|---|
| Hosting | HOST-AS-AP - Host Universal Pty Ltd, AU |
| Country | NZ |
| Server IP | 103.119.109.51 |
| Name servers | ns1.hosting-cloud.net, ns2.hosting-cloud.net, ns3.hosting-cloud.net |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-13 |
| Domain age | 16.82 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2009-10-25 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about fixahole.com.au 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.