---
title: "Is gastonscatering.com Safe? Risk Report, Score 25/100"
source: TrustSniffer
type: Website trust & fraud report
subject: "gastonscatering.com"
verdict: "Low Trust"
title: "Is gastonscatering.com Safe? Risk Report, Score 25/100"
trust_score: 25
classification_confidence: 55
canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/gastonscatering.com
assessed: 2026-08-21
---

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

## Verdict


**Verdict: Low Trust, trust score 25/100.** gastonscatering.com 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 55%.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| What this site appears to be | Gaston's Catering website for a local catering business in Moncton, New Brunswick. Site provides menus, event types served, contact details (address, phone, email), and company background (25 years experience). No login, no financial deposit flows, and appears informational/commercial for ordering catering services. |

## 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 | 21 years old (Registered history) | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2011 (Public history exists) | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by YR1) | Noted |

## The page as captured


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

_What gastonscatering.com 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 2011.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.

## Full analysis


### Overview

Gastons Catering is a local catering website serving Moncton, New Brunswick, presenting event catering for weddings, corporate functions, receptions, reunions, and other occasions through menus, ordering information, contact details, and company-background claims. Its apparent business model is the sale of prepared food, event menus, and catering staff services rather than account-based or financial activity.


### Scam/Impersonation Risk

The site presents as an informational local-service business and the reviewed pages contain no login form, financial-deposit flow, cryptocurrency feature, or explicit phishing mechanism. However, this benign presentation is materially contradicted by external threat detections: four malicious and one suspicious detections were recorded, and the domain is confirmed on blacklists from multiple sources. The contradiction is significant because the site’s ordinary catering content does not explain why those external detections are associated with the domain. The available evidence does not establish brand impersonation or a conflicting legal identity, but the confirmed blacklist status makes sensitive interaction, payment arrangements, and reliance on the site’s identity inappropriate without independent validation.


Evidence:
- The homepage presents catering menus, event services, contact information, and claims of 25 years of experience; no login or sensitive form was detected.
- External reputation assessment recorded 4 malicious and 1 suspicious detections.
- The domain was confirmed on blacklists by two independent external sources.
- Browser testing recorded 2 non-whitelisted external posts and 2 non-whitelisted external XHR requests, alongside 6 console errors.

### Regulatory Verification Notes

The apparent business activity is conventional catering rather than a regulated financial or investment service. The site identifies Gaston’s Catering, provides a Moncton location, telephone contact, email contact, ordering information, and background claims concerning the business and its owner. No license, registration number, or regulatory authority is claimed on the reviewed pages; for a catering business this is a disclosure and verification matter rather than proof of wrongdoing. Independent identity verification remains incomplete, and the external blacklist findings outweigh the otherwise ordinary page content for trust purposes. The site’s limited search-engine metadata and lack of structured business markup also reduce the amount of independently machine-verifiable business information available.


Evidence:
- The homepage and contact material identify a local catering service and provide address, telephone, and email contact details.
- The About content claims “25 Years” of experience and describes owner Russell Bainbridge.
- No license authority or license number is stated in the reviewed business content.
- The domain was registered on 2006-02-07 and is approximately 20.55 years old; registration is through PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com.

### What to Verify Next

Before any deposit, advance payment, contract commitment, or disclosure of personal information, an independent party should confirm that the business name, physical location, telephone number, and proposed payment instructions correspond to the intended catering provider. Licensing or municipal operating requirements, if relevant to the planned service, should be checked with the applicable New Brunswick or local authority. Official contact channels should be confirmed through an independent offline route, and payment should use a method offering dispute or chargeback protection until the external reputation conflict is resolved.


Evidence:
- The business model describes ordering through telephone or email and potentially an ordering page rather than through a protected customer account.
- The site contains no sensitive form, login form, wallet connection, or financial-deposit flow.
- Historical domain coverage is recorded from 2011-01-28 through 2026-06-06, with 16 years tracked; the archival record is sparse and does not establish continuous page-level provenance.
- Identity verification remains unverified in the available assessment.

### Summary Verdict

The overall posture is **low trust with elevated sensitive-interaction risk**. Although the website’s visible content is consistent with a local catering business, that surface-level legitimacy is overridden by corroborated external malicious detections and confirmed blacklist status. The real-world operator is not independently verified, so the site should not be treated as an established, authenticated business identity.


### Infrastructure Integrity

The site resolves directly to hosting infrastructure operated by GoDaddy.com, LLC, without a detected CDN or WAF edge layer; this provides a clear hosting path but does not validate the operator. Transport encryption is present through a domain-validated certificate, which is a basic protective control rather than evidence of legitimacy.


Evidence:
- Served from AS398101, GoDaddy.com, LLC, United States, at 132.148.182.120.
- One resolved IP was identified, with 1 likely origin IP and 0 edge IPs; no CDN was detected.
- TLS certificate issuer: YR1; validation level: DV; valid to 2026-10-23T21:09:34+00:00.

### Closing Assessment

Sensitive actions should remain deferred until the business identity, payment instructions, and external reputation conflict have been independently resolved; if engagement is unavoidable, transaction protections and a separately confirmed contact route should be used.


_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`)

### 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`)
- 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 gastonscatering.com.

- The request stayed on gastonscatering.com. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear)
- Registration is published under PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com. (Clear)
- DNS for this domain is served by microsoftonline.com, across 2 name servers. (Noted)
- The registration is paid up to 2028-02-07. (Clear)
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-01-28. (Clear)
- It is hosted on GO-DADDY-COM-LLC, from a server in US. (Noted)

## Domain intelligence


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Registrar | PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com |
| Hosting | GO-DADDY-COM-LLC - GoDaddy.com, LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 132.148.182.120 |
| Name servers | NS1.BDM.MICROSOFTONLINE.COM, NS2.BDM.MICROSOFTONLINE.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-23 |
| Domain age | 20.55 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-02-07 |
| Archive first seen | 2011-01-28 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| 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 gastonscatering.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.

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