Verdict
horizontelecom.it 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 | Italian corporate telecommunications page announcing that air2bite S.r.l. acquired Horizon Telecom and explaining continuity of services, customer support changes, connectivity offerings, proprietary infrastructure, monitoring, DDoS protection, and contact options. |
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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 | 14 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2013100 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | 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.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the corporate web presence of an Italian telecommunications provider presenting connectivity, networking, monitoring, DDoS protection, customer support, and wholesale services, while announcing Horizon Telecom’s incorporation into air2bite S.r.l. and continuity of service for existing customers.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions, phishing indicators, brand impersonation, or confirmed blacklist findings were observed. The merger announcement provides a coherent corporate purpose, identifies the acquiring entity, explains data-controller continuity under GDPR, and presents ordinary business-service mechanics rather than deceptive financial or credential-harvesting activity. External reputation checks were broadly clean; an isolated suspicious classification was not corroborated by malicious, phishing, or blacklist evidence.
- The corporate merger page identifies air2Bite S.r.l. as the acquiring entity and explains continuity for Horizon Telecom customers.
- The page contains a standard contact form with no password or sensitive credential fields.
- The domain was registered on 2013-01-03 and is approximately 13.58 years old.
- Historical records contain 100 snapshots spanning 2013-06-30 to 2026-07-04, covering 14 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site provides a credible corporate identity narrative and describes services for businesses, public entities, and wholesale customers. It references GDPR privacy responsibilities and service continuity following the acquisition. The supplied page does not present a specific telecom license or registration number, so any authorization requirements applicable to a prospective commercial arrangement should be confirmed independently. The absence of a broker-dataset match is a soft reputationally positive signal, not a regulatory determination.
- The merger page names air2Bite S.r.l. and states that it became the data controller for transferred customer information.
- The site is served from AS31034, ARUBA-ASN – Aruba S.p.A., Italy.
- The TLS certificate is issued by YR2 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-10-07.
What to Verify Next
For a regulated or wholesale engagement, confirm any applicable Italian telecommunications authorization directly with the relevant registry and validate commercial contacts through an independently sourced corporate channel. Standard account access and ordinary website interaction are appropriate within normal organizational controls.
- The page identifies businesses, public administration, and wholesale customers as intended audiences.
- The site presents connectivity, networking, monitoring, DDoS protection, and support as conventional service offerings.
Summary Verdict
The website presents as a legitimate, established, and trustworthy corporate telecommunications presence. Its identity, business purpose, historical continuity, technical operation, and external reputation converge without observed contradiction.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to infrastructure associated with Aruba S.p.A. and does not show a detected CDN or WAF edge layer. This is a neutral hosting characteristic; the identified provider and resolved service posture provide a coherent infrastructure basis for normal use.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users may proceed with normal interaction and standard account access where offered, applying ordinary procurement and compliance controls for any formal commercial engagement.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 horizontelecom.it.
- The request for horizontelecom.it ended on air2bite.com, a different domain. Watch
- Registration is published under OVH. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ovh.net. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-01-03. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-06-30. Clear
- It is hosted on ARUBA-ASN, from a server in IT. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | OVH |
|---|---|
| Hosting | ARUBA-ASN - Aruba S.p.A., IT |
| Country | IT |
| Server IP | 85.235.144.209 |
| Name servers | dns103.ovh.net ns103.ovh.net |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-07 |
| Domain age | 13.6 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-01-03 |
| Archive first seen | 2013-06-30 |
| Archive snapshots | 100 |
| 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 horizontelecom.it 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.