Verdict
fnqla.com.au is moderately trusted.
Most signals looked ordinary, and some evidence was missing. Read the checks below before you pay or hand over personal details.
| What this site appears to be | Website for the Far North Queensland Law Association (FNQLA). Provides membership and events information, committee details, contact email, sponsorship and mentoring program details. Appears to be a standard regional professional association site. |
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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 | 1 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | Not availableNo registration record was returned | Noted |
| Web archive | Archived since 2013Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Public web-archive history exists since 2013.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the online presence of the Far North Queensland Law Association, a regional professional association serving local practitioners, barristers, members of the judiciary, and students through membership information, professional events, committee activities, sponsorship opportunities, mentoring, and a lost-or-missing-wills enquiry service.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is consistent with a professional association and contains no observed login form, payment form, wallet connection, phishing indicator, or brand-impersonation signal. However, this benign presentation is outweighed by a confirmed external blacklist hit, creating a material contradiction that warrants a security-forward posture for sensitive interactions. Suspicious inline scripts were also detected, although the observed browsing behavior showed no hidden forms, external data submissions, wallet activity, or cloaking. The site should therefore be treated as potentially compromised, misclassified, or otherwise unsuitable for unverified credential or financial interaction until the reputation finding is resolved.
- The homepage identifies the Far North Queensland Law Association and describes membership, events, committee participation, and professional-development activities.
- Behavioral inspection of the homepage found no login form, hidden form, password submission, wallet connection, or external post activity; suspicious inline scripts were nevertheless detected.
- External reputation checks recorded one malicious and one suspicious determination, together with a confirmed blacklist hit.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents a coherent association identity and names “THE FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND LAW ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED” in the registration record, with registration through Web Address Registration Pty Ltd. The available evidence supports a likely connection to that organization, but independent real-world identity verification is not established. The site does not state a regulatory license or license number; for an association site this is primarily a disclosure and applicability question, but it should be clarified before treating any membership, sponsorship, or related service as formally regulated. The association’s stated funding model—membership subscriptions, events, sponsorships, and volunteer committee activity—is informational rather than a financial-services offering.
- The homepage and committee page identify the Far North Queensland Law Association and describe its practitioner, barrister, judiciary, and student membership base.
- The registration record lists Web Address Registration Pty Ltd as registrar and “THE FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND LAW ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED” as registrant.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YR2, valid through 2026-11-18.
What to Verify Next
An independent confirmation should establish that the domain is the association’s current official web address, using an offline contact route or an independently sourced professional-association directory. Any membership, sponsorship, or event payment destination should be checked against independently confirmed association details before funds are sent. The association’s applicable registration, professional status, and responsibility for the listed enquiry service should also be confirmed with the relevant Australian authority or professional body.
- The homepage provides the association name, membership pathway, events information, and social-media references that can be compared with independently sourced records.
- The contact and committee pages provide the organizational channels needed for independent confirmation.
- The membership and sponsorship pages identify the specific interaction types requiring confirmation before payment or submission of personal information.
Summary Verdict
The website has a moderate trust posture with elevated sensitive-interaction risk. Its page content is coherent and association-oriented, but the confirmed blacklist contradiction prevents the available evidence from supporting normal confidence in credential, payment, or other sensitive use. Identity appears likely rather than independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to infrastructure operated by HOST-AS-AP - Host Universal Pty Ltd, with no detected CDN or WAF layer and a visible origin posture. The hosting location is reported as New Zealand, while the provider organization is identified in Australia; this infrastructure is technically resolvable but offers no protective CDN mitigation.
- Hosted on AS136557, HOST-AS-AP - Host Universal Pty Ltd, AU; resolved IP country: NZ.
- Infrastructure resolution identified 1 unique IP, 0 edge IPs, and 1 likely origin IP.
Closing Assessment
Interaction should remain limited to low-sensitivity information review until the blacklist finding and organizational connection have been independently clarified; credential submission, payment, and other sensitive actions should not proceed beforehand.
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.
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 - The page carried inline scripts written in a style TrustSniffer treats as suspicious.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_SUSPICIOUS_INLINE_SCRIPTS
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 76/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 76% |
- Trusted social count=2
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 fnqla.com.au.
- The request stayed on fnqla.com.au. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Web Address Registration Pty Ltd. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by justpurple.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-03-01. Clear
- It is hosted on HOST-AS-AP, from a server in NZ. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Web Address Registration Pty Ltd |
|---|---|
| Hosting | HOST-AS-AP - Host Universal Pty Ltd, AU |
| Country | NZ |
| Server IP | 103.119.110.213 |
| Name servers | ns1.justpurple.com, ns2.justpurple.com |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-18 |
| Domain age | Not available (no registration date was returned) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2013-03-01 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 1 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about fnqla.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.