Verdict
haproxy.org 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 | Official project site for HAProxy: an established, open-source high-performance TCP/HTTP load balancer offering downloads, documentation, release notes, and enterprise support options. |
|---|
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 | 14 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20092163 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2009.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
HAProxy.org is the official project website for HAProxy, an established open-source, high-performance TCP/HTTP load balancer. It presents software downloads, packages and container images, documentation, release information, security and performance material, community resources, and optional enterprise support, with a business model centered on free software and related commercial services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed across the homepage, news content, historical record, and external reputation checks. The site consistently presents HAProxy as an open-source software project, shows no phishing or brand-impersonation indicators, and exposes no login, payment, wallet-connection, or sensitive-data form. The long, continuous historical presence and clean external reputation are consistent with an established, apparently legitimate project, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified. A separate recognition record explicitly identifies haproxy.org as the named protocol, but the supplied record gives no protocol category or TVL/market-cap figure; this is therefore treated as limited contextual support rather than financial validation.
- The homepage identifies “HAProxy” as “The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer” and provides project documentation, downloads, packages, release information, and community links.
- The news page contains development and release material dating back to December 2012, including HAProxy 1.9.0 release coverage.
- The domain was registered on 2012-04-26 and is recorded as approximately 14.32 years old; registrar: DNC Holdings, Inc.
- The historical record contains 2,163 archive snapshots spanning 2009-02-22 to 2026-08-16 across 18 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The observed business is software distribution and project support rather than a financial service, and the pages do not present a regulated investment, payment, brokerage, or lending proposition. The homepage provides an on-site HAProxy identity, project contacts, documentation, source and package links, signing-key references, and commercial-support options; however, the supplied page review does not identify formal terms, privacy, corporate-registration, or licensing disclosures for the operating entity. This is a transparency and commercial due-diligence point, not evidence of a scam. The independent recognition record names haproxy.org, while the observed page category is open-source project/software; no category or financial magnitude is supplied in that record.
- The homepage describes free open-source load-balancer software supported by documentation, downloads, performance packages, enterprise features, and commercial support.
- The homepage includes “Signing keys,” “Project on GitHub,” package and container-image links, and documentation resources.
- The site is served from AS16347, INHERENT - ADISTA SAS, France.
- The transport certificate is DV-validated, issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, and valid to 2026-10-18T23:59:59+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions associated with any commercial support engagement, the prospective counterparty should independently confirm the contracting entity, support terms, refund or service conditions, and applicable payment protections. For software acquisition, downloads should be obtained through the project’s established source and package channels, with release signatures or signing keys checked against independently retrieved project references. Official support and contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route before sensitive correspondence.
- The homepage provides source, package, container-image, documentation, GitHub, and signing-key references that can support independent software-integrity checks.
- The site fingerprint records no login form, checkout flow, payment domain, or sensitive form across the analyzed pages.
- The news page provides an established release and project-history context for comparison with current downloads and announcements.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website with a high-trust, low-risk posture and no observed scam or impersonation contradictions. The site is independently recognized in the supplied protocol record as haproxy.org, although that record does not provide a protocol category or TVL/market-cap figure and does not independently prove the real-world operator identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to one identified IP associated with AS16347 and INHERENT - ADISTA SAS in France. No CDN or WAF vendor was detected, and the infrastructure data indicates a likely origin address rather than an edge-only presentation; this limits the protective mitigation attributable to intermediary infrastructure but does not, on the supplied evidence, indicate malicious hosting.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary browsing and software-project interaction are proportionate to the assessment; commercial engagements and any exchange of credentials or payment information should follow standard independent counterparty, contractual, and payment-protection checks.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-17 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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 70/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 72% |
- org:HAProxy
- contact:email
- on_site_identity
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 haproxy.org.
- The request stayed on haproxy.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under DNC Holdings, Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by awsdns-07.org, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-04-26. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2009-02-22. Clear
- It is hosted on INHERENT, from a server in FR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | DNC Holdings, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | INHERENT - ADISTA SAS, FR |
| Country | FR |
| Server IP | 2a01:729:1a:0:290:bff:fe5c:b138 |
| Name servers | ns-1087.awsdns-07.org, ns-1802.awsdns-33.co.uk, ns-243.awsdns-30.com, ns-517.awsdns-00.net |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-18 |
| Domain age | 14.32 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-04-26 |
| Archive first seen | 2009-02-22 |
| Archive snapshots | 2163 |
| 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 haproxy.org 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.