Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
flare-voting.xyz shows high-risk / scam indicators.
| What this site appears to be | A Flare network governance page where FLR and WFLR holders vote on the date of the next FLR rewards distribution (October 1 or November 1, 2026, or abstain). It explains Flare's oracle, data-connector, and token utility, and includes a timeline and FAQ. The vote's stated close date has already passed relative to the current date, so the 'active' status may be stale. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: Not recorded
- 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 | 6 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 0 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 22 days oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Web archive | Archived since 20264 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: less than 1 year (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2026.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website presents itself as a Flare network governance portal. Its homepage invites holders of the FLR and WFLR tokens to vote on when the next FLR rewards distribution should occur (October 1, November 1, or abstain). It also carries explanatory sections on Flare's oracle and data services, token utility, a distribution timeline and an FAQ. It sells nothing directly. Its apparent purpose is to collect wallet-linked participation in a token-rewards vote on behalf of the Flare ecosystem.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Contradictory signals are present and decisive. Several independent security engines currently rate the domain as malicious, including at least one tier-one vendor, and the domain is blacklisted by external reputation sources. The page-level analysis did not confirm brand impersonation, phishing forms or credential capture. The convergence of signals is nonetheless typical of a lookalike governance lure. The domain name borrows the Flare project name on a generic, low-cost top-level domain. The page offers an unquantified incentive ("everyone who takes part gets a larger rewards allocation") and pushes visitors toward a wallet connection to "cast your vote". Voting power is said to derive from WFLR and FXRP balances and from positions in named third-party protocols, so a connected wallet is the entry point. During sandbox runs, the page also made several requests and POST submissions to external destinations outside the expected allow-list, with a very high proportion of external traffic. This is inconsistent with a simple static governance page.
- Domain registered 2026-09-27 (~23 days old) and the vote's own closing date is the same day, so the portal's "governance" timeline begins and ends at registration.
- Web archive shows 4 snapshots spanning 2026-09-27 to 2026-10-17 (1 year tracked), so there is no pre-existing history behind the Flare-branded name.
- The homepage labels the proposal "Active proposal" while the countdown reads zero and the stated close of September 27, 2026 has passed. This is inconsistent with a maintained official portal.
- The homepage shows unverifiable counters (23.8K votes cast, 87.4% for October 1) with no on-chain reference or independent source.
Regulatory Verification Notes
No licence, registration or regulatory affiliation is claimed, and none is matched by a third-party regulatory source. Governance voting is not itself a licensed activity, so the absence of a licence is not a defect. The problem is attribution: the site names no operating entity, legal address or accountable contact, and its on-page disclosure is unclear. It also asserts an official-project identity that nothing on the site substantiates. Registration details also leave the registrant's identity unestablished. This ownership opacity is an administrative limitation rather than an identity contradiction, because no conflicting legal entities appear. It matters here only because the reputation signals leave no corroborating identity to offset them. The site therefore cannot be treated as the Flare project's own governance venue.
- Hosting network AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- TLS certificate issued by YE1 (DV, domain-validated only), valid to 2026-12-26. It confirms domain control but not operator identity.
- Domain registered through NameSilo, LLC, expiring 2027-09-27.
- No legal entity, licence reference or terms page identifies the operator on the homepage content reviewed.
What to Verify Next
Verification should start from official project channels reached independently of this site. These include the Flare project's documented governance announcements and its official website, typed or bookmarked from a trusted source and not followed from this page. Any vote on the FLR rewards date should be confirmed to exist there, together with its real voting mechanism and the protocols that count toward voting power. Any wallet that has already interacted with this site should be checked for new token approvals or signed messages and have them revoked. The organisation or individual that shared the link should be asked to confirm its origin through a separate channel. Official support and contact channels should be taken only from the project's own documentation.
- The homepage lists Firelight, Spectra and Upshift as sources of voting power, and these claims should be matched against the project's own documentation.
- The proposal is labelled an FIP governance vote, and a matching proposal should be located on an official governance record.
- The homepage's two candidate dates (October 1 and November 1, 2026) should appear in official rewards-distribution communications if the vote is genuine.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high risk. Active third-party threat detections on a weeks-old domain with no established history or verifiable operator outweigh the polished, coherent presentation of the page. The site's content quality and valid encryption do not establish that it is the genuine Flare governance venue, and its legitimacy is not supported by the evidence.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is fronted by a mainstream CDN and WAF, and every observed address is an edge node, so the origin server is not observable. This protective infrastructure is a mitigating factor only. It is common to both legitimate and abusive sites and cannot offset the reputation findings. Edge-only visibility also prevents independent hosting verification and can mask rapid content swaps.
Closing Assessment
At most, the site should be viewed read-only. No wallet should be connected, no transaction or message signed, and no credentials or funds entered. Any participation in Flare governance should go through officially published channels reached independently.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
4 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by external reputation, hosting and network, history in the web archive, behaviour in a sandbox.
01 External reputation
- 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
02 Hosting and network
- The domain was registered less than three months ago.Hosting and network
rule:DNS_NEW_DOMAIN_90D - The domain is young and has almost nothing else set up around it.Hosting and network
rule:DNS_SPARSE_YOUNG_DOMAIN
03 History in the web archive
- The web archive has almost no record of this domain, which fits a site that is new.History in the web archive
rule:ARCH_PEN_YOUNG_AND_SPARSE
04 Behaviour in a sandbox
- Most of what the page loaded came from other domains rather than from this one.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_HIGH
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 flare-voting.xyz.
- The request stayed on flare-voting.xyz. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under NameSilo, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-09-27. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-09-27. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | NameSilo, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3032::ac43:9733 |
| Name servers | AMIT.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, MILLIE.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM |
| CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) |
| Resolved IP addresses | 4 |
| Edge IP addresses | 4 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-26 |
| Domain age | 0.06 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-09-27 |
| Archive first seen | 2026-09-27 |
| Archive snapshots | 4 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 6 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about flare-voting.xyz 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.