Verdict
glkinst.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.
| What this site appears to be | Product page for the Model 3000 Capacitance Meter: detailed features, specs, software support, accessories, calibration information, and ordering instructions (email/PayPal). |
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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 | 4 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 27 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2001Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 | 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 2001.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is an ecommerce product page for the Model 3000 Capacitance Meter, presenting laboratory measurement equipment, technical specifications, accessories, software support, calibration services, and ordering information through a direct-sales model.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site content itself is a detailed, informational presentation of a laboratory instrument and does not show a login form, credential-collection mechanism, wallet interaction, or clear brand-impersonation pattern. However, this benign page presentation is outweighed by confirmed external threat detections: the domain is blacklisted by multiple sources, including four malicious detections and two suspicious detections in the evaluated reputation results. This is a material contradiction to the otherwise conventional ecommerce presentation and supports a high-risk posture for sensitive interactions, payments, or submission of credentials. No separate identity inconsistency or confirmed impersonation signal was observed.
- The homepage presents the Model 3000 Capacitance Meter, its specifications, accessories, manuals, software, and calibration-related services.
- Behavioral inspection of the homepage found no login form, hidden sensitive form, password-external form, wallet connection, clipboard hijacking, or cloaking.
- External reputation results recorded 4 malicious detections, 2 suspicious detections, and confirmed blacklist status for the domain.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available page describes direct sales of laboratory equipment and related services rather than a regulated financial product. It does not, however, independently establish the operating legal entity, applicable business registration, or any relevant authorization. The ordering process relies on email and PayPal, so the commercial counterparty and refund or fulfilment arrangements require independent confirmation before payment. The available third-party broker dataset contained no matching record; this is contextual only and does not establish licensing or legitimacy.
- Domain registration records show registration through Network Solutions, LLC on 1999-11-08, with an expiry date of 2028-11-08 and a registrant privacy service identified as PERFECT PRIVACY, LLC.
- The historical record spans 2001-04-02 through 2026-04-14, covering 26 years of tracked history.
- The site's transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, valid through 2027-03-01.
- The product page provides ordering instructions involving email and PayPal but does not display a verified legal-entity or licensing disclosure in the supplied content.
What to Verify Next
Before any payment or account-related interaction, an independent source should confirm the seller’s legal identity, physical business details, fulfilment capability, and applicable consumer-protection obligations. Any claimed authorization relevant to the transaction should be checked directly with the appropriate government or industry registry, and payment should be limited to a method offering meaningful dispute and chargeback protection. Official contact channels and return, warranty, and calibration terms should also be confirmed through an independently obtained business record or offline route.
- The homepage contains ordering, manuals, software, contact, and service links that can be compared against independently sourced business information.
- The page links to PayPal for payment, providing a defined payment channel whose buyer-protection terms should be reviewed before use.
- No sensitive form or credential-harvesting workflow was observed during technical interaction testing.
Summary Verdict
The website has a low-trust posture because confirmed external threat detections and blacklisting materially outweigh the credibility provided by its long registration history, detailed product content, and valid transport encryption. Its real-world operator remains unverified, and the available evidence is insufficient to support sensitive interaction, payment, or credential submission.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single hosting address rather than a detected CDN or WAF edge, and is hosted by INFB2-AS – Internet Names For Business Inc. in Canada on AS30447. This infrastructure is technically identifiable and the site uses valid TLS, but the absence of a protective CDN or WAF provides no additional mitigation against the external reputation concerns.
Closing Assessment
A prospective user should restrict interaction to non-sensitive inspection until the seller, transaction terms, and payment protections have been independently validated; sensitive actions should not proceed on the present evidence.
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 public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE - 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 - Most of what the page loaded came from other domains rather than from this one.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_HIGH - 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
| 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 glkinst.com.
- The request stayed on glkinst.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Network Solutions, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by earthlink.net, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-11-08. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2001-04-02. Clear
- It is hosted on INFB2-AS, from a server in CA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Network Solutions, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | INFB2-AS - Internet Names For Business Inc., CA |
| Country | CA |
| Server IP | 66.175.58.9 |
| Name servers | DNS1.EARTHLINK.NET, DNS2.EARTHLINK.NET, DNS3.EARTHLINK.NET |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-03-01 |
| Domain age | 26.80 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-11-08 |
| Archive first seen | 2001-04-02 |
| 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 glkinst.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.