Verdict
haircity.co.za 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 | Hair City is an online hair and wig retailer offering Brazilian, Peruvian, and Vietnamese lace wigs, bundles, hair-care products, custom wig design, promotions, delivery, exchanges, returns, and loyalty rewards. |
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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 | 8 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 14 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2013192 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2013.
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
Full analysis
Overview
Hair City is an established online hair and wig retailer offering Brazilian, Peruvian, and Vietnamese lace wigs, bundles, hair-care products, custom wig design, promotions, delivery, returns, and loyalty rewards through direct-to-consumer online sales.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent ecommerce model with visible product categories, pricing promotions, customer reviews, delivery and returns information, loyalty rewards, and buy-now-pay-later options. Its claims concern ordinary retail activity rather than financial products, cryptocurrency, or high-risk investment services, and no phishing, malware, impersonation, or suspicious behavior indicators were identified.
- The homepage identifies the business as Hair City and presents wigs, bundles, hair-care products, custom wig design, delivery, exchanges, returns, and loyalty services.
- The site’s behavioral testing recorded no external activity, hidden forms, wallet interactions, clipboard manipulation, or suspicious scripts.
- The domain was registered in 2012 and is approximately 13.91 years old; archival records contain 192 snapshots spanning 2013–2025, covering 13 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site reads as a consumer retail business rather than a regulated financial service. No licensing claim or license number is presented in the supplied evidence; this is a routine transparency point for confirming the operating entity and applicable consumer-commerce obligations, not an indication of fraud. External reputation checks were clean, and no broker identity match or confirmed blacklist finding was present.
- The homepage describes direct retail sales of hair products and related services, with customer-facing delivery, returns, and loyalty information.
- The domain registrar is 1-Grid, with registration from 2012-09-06 through 2027-09-06.
- The site is served through AS13335, Cloudflare; its TLS certificate is issued by YE2 at DV validation level and is valid through 2026-10-21.
What to Verify Next
Before a material commercial commitment, confirm the seller’s legal business details and applicable consumer-protection standing through an independent registry, and review the current delivery, exchange, return, and payment terms presented during checkout. Contact details should also be validated through an independently obtained official channel.
- The homepage provides delivery, exchanges, returns, promotions, loyalty rewards, and buy-now-pay-later references for validation during checkout.
- The site operates as a Shopify ecommerce storefront with no sensitive form or untrusted destination detected in the supplied analysis.
Summary Verdict
Hair City presents as a legitimate, established, and trustworthy ecommerce website with a coherent retail purpose and no observed contradiction or impersonation signal. Normal interaction, including account login and standard use, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare provides CDN and WAF protection, and the observed address was a CDN edge address rather than an exposed origin; this reduces direct infrastructure exposure but is a mitigating security control, not standalone proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Standard browsing, account activity, and ordinary purchases are appropriate, subject to normal review of transaction terms and consumer protections.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-01 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 haircity.co.za.
- The request stayed on haircity.co.za. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under 1-Grid. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by 1-grid.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-09-06. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-05-03. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in CA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | 1-Grid |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | CA |
| Server IP | 23.227.38.32 |
| Name servers | petra.ns.1-grid.com, petra.ns.1-grid.co.za, petra.ns.1-grid.co.uk, petra.ns.1-grid.net |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-21 |
| Domain age | 13.9 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-09-06 |
| Archive first seen | 2013-05-03 |
| Archive snapshots | 192 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 8 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about haircity.co.za 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.