Verdict
gogocharters.co.uk appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Business website for GOGO Charters / GOGO Coaches offering coach and minibus hire across multiple UK cities, with phone contact, service descriptions, and booking/quote prompts. |
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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 | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 9.8 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2017Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Amazon RSA 2048 M01 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2017.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
GOGO Charters is a UK-focused coach and minibus hire brokerage that presents group transportation services, quote and reservation prompts, telephone support, and coverage across cities including Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Edinburgh.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No scam, phishing, impersonation, blacklist, or identity-contradiction signals were observed. The homepage presents a conventional transport-booking model involving coach and minibus hire, event and group transportation, free quotes, and reservation assistance; the content is consistent with a service business rather than a deceptive collection or credential-harvesting operation. The site also contains no login form, hidden sensitive form, wallet functionality, or other high-risk interaction identified in the supplied testing. Its established registration continuity and consistent archived presence further support the conclusion that the website is apparently legitimate, although the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
- The homepage describes coach and minibus hire for corporate events, school trips, sporting events, weddings, and other group travel.
- Browser testing found no hidden forms, password-external forms, wallet activity, clipboard manipulation, cloaking, or brand-impersonation indicators.
- Domain registration: 2016-11-16; age 9.76 years.
- Web archives record 45 snapshots spanning 2017–2025, with 9 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website appears to operate as a commercial transport-booking intermediary, not as a site claiming to provide a regulated financial service. The available site material does not present a licensing claim or license number, so the relevant verification point is the legal identity of the booking intermediary, its relationship with underlying transport operators, and the contractual terms governing reservations. This is a disclosure and verification consideration, not evidence of a scam. No matching broker-reputation record was identified, and external reputation checks supplied no malicious or suspicious detections, although coverage was not complete.
- The homepage identifies GOGO Coaches/GOGO Charters as a coach-hire service and promotes quotes and bookings.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by Amazon RSA 2048 M01, valid through 2027-03-17.
- Hosting is identified as AS16509, Amazon.com, Inc., US.
- The domain registrar is GoDaddy.com, LLC.
What to Verify Next
Before a credential or payment interaction, an independent check should confirm the operating entity shown on the quotation or booking paperwork, the identity of the transport provider fulfilling the reservation, the cancellation and refund terms, and the payment-protection arrangements. Where applicable to the service structure, licensing or operator-authorization details should be confirmed through the relevant UK transport or corporate registry rather than relying solely on the website’s presentation. Official contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route before a high-value booking.
- The homepage uses telephone-assisted quotes and reservation prompts rather than a full online sensitive-data form.
- The booking model involves arranging transport through underlying coach or minibus operators, making contractual responsibility and refund terms material verification points.
- Page metadata is limited: no structured data or meta description was detected, which reduces the amount of independently machine-readable business information available.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate, low-risk service website. The absence of contradictory threat or impersonation signals and the convergence of stable business content, domain continuity, and clean external reputation support a high-trust posture. This conclusion does not independently prove the identity of the real-world operator.
Infrastructure Integrity
The supplied infrastructure evidence indicates ordinary Amazon-hosted web service with valid transport encryption. No separate CDN, WAF, or origin-IP posture was supplied for assessment; the hosting information should therefore be treated as a technical mitigating signal rather than proof of business legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and ordinary booking consideration are proportionate, with independent confirmation of merchant identity, booking terms, and payment protections completed before credentials or payment details are provided.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
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 gogocharters.co.uk.
- The request stayed on gogocharters.co.uk. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by org., across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-11-16. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2017-05-15. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2600:9000:2375:bc00:3:7529:d4c0:93a1 |
| Name servers | ns-1342.awsdns-39.org., ns-2020.awsdns-60.co.uk., ns-336.awsdns-42.com., ns-895.awsdns-47.net. |
| SSL issuer | Amazon RSA 2048 M01 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-03-17 |
| Domain age | 9.76 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-11-16 |
| Archive first seen | 2017-05-15 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about gogocharters.co.uk 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.