Verdict
gruppenunterkuenfte.de 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 | German-language directory for finding group accommodation in Germany and other European countries. Users can browse properties by region or category, contact the service by telephone, and book directly with property owners; providers are invited to add their properties. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | Not availableNo registration record was returned | Noted |
| Web archive | Archived since 1999470 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Public web-archive history exists since 1999.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is an established German-language accommodation directory that helps groups find properties across Germany and other European countries, browse by region or category, and arrange bookings directly with property owners; accommodation providers can also advertise their properties through the service.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No identity contradictions, impersonation indicators, phishing behavior, or malicious reputation findings were observed. The site’s long operating history, stable accommodation-directory purpose, clean external reputation, and conventional search functionality provide strong convergent evidence of legitimacy. The homepage does not solicit payment-card details, passwords, cryptocurrency, or other sensitive information through its search form.
- The homepage presents group accommodation listings for school trips, group travel, and private events, with navigation by German state, European country, region, city, and property category.
- The site has a reconciled domain age of approximately 26.8 years; 470 archive snapshots span 1999-10-11 to 2026-06-11, covering 28 tracked years with no suspicious repurposing detected.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, no phishing indication, and no confirmed adverse listing; the domain also holds a global traffic rank of 537,403.
- Behavioral examination completed 2 of 2 runs successfully and found no cloaking, hidden forms, external password submissions, wallet activity, clipboard hijacking, or untrusted external requests.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The service operates as an accommodation marketplace rather than a regulated financial or investment business, and the supplied pages make no regulated-product or licensing claims requiring corroboration. The homepage provides visible links to an Impressum, terms/privacy information, and a contact page, supporting a conventional German commercial-site structure. Booking is described as occurring directly with property owners, so the contractual role of the directory and the individual provider should be understood from the applicable terms for each transaction.
- The homepage exposes dedicated “Impressum,” “AGB/Datenschutz,” and “Kontakt” links alongside account and property-listing functions.
- The homepage states that visitors book directly with the property owner, distinguishing the directory from the accommodation supplier.
- The site is served from AS8560 by IONOS SE in Germany.
- Its transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, valid until 2026-12-11.
What to Verify Next
Before committing to a particular property, the prospective customer should confirm the owner’s identity, availability, total price, cancellation terms, and payment recipient using the listing details and an independently established contact route. Any deposit or balance should be paid only after the booking documentation identifies the accommodation, contracting party, dates, and refund conditions. Property providers considering a listing should review the directory’s commercial terms, fees, publication rules, and data-processing provisions before submitting an entry.
- The homepage invites visitors to obtain advice by telephone and publishes the German contact number +49 (02472) 80 35 886.
- Property owners are invited through the homepage to add their accommodation to the directory.
- The homepage advertises properties across Germany as well as Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Italy, making property-specific contractual and jurisdictional checks relevant.
- The sole observed homepage form is a search form with no sensitive fields or untrusted submission destination.
Summary Verdict
This is a legitimate, established, and trustworthy website with a coherent business purpose and no observed contradictory risk signals. The convergence of historical continuity, clean reputation, stable behavior, substantive content, and conventional commercial-site features supports high confidence in its identity and normal operation.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site uses CDN/WAF protection on IONOS infrastructure, with the observed IPv4 and IPv6 addresses operating as edge servers. The origin address was not exposed through the observed configuration, reducing direct infrastructure exposure; this is a security mitigation rather than independent proof of business legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing, account login, property-listing activity, and standard use are appropriate, with ordinary transaction diligence applied to the individual property owner and booking contract.
Written analysis generated 2026-07-31 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 |
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| 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 gruppenunterkuenfte.de.
- The request stayed on gruppenunterkuenfte.de. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ui-dns.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1999-10-11. Clear
- It is hosted on IONOS-AS, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
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| Hosting | IONOS-AS - IONOS SE, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 2001:8d8:100f:f000::26a |
| Name servers | ns1089.ui-dns.com, ns1102.ui-dns.biz, ns1108.ui-dns.de, ns1124.ui-dns.org |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-11 |
| Domain age | Not available (no registration date was returned) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 1999-10-11 |
| Archive snapshots | 470 |
| 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 gruppenunterkuenfte.de 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.