Verdict
hostcenter.co.kr 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 | Korean hosting company marketing page describing servers, IDC, VPS, colocation, hybrid cloud, managed services and security offerings with contact details and company registration info. |
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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 | 26 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2000320 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 | 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 2000.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is Hostcenter, a Korean corporate IT-infrastructure provider presenting dedicated servers, VPS hosting, colocation, hybrid-cloud services, managed security, monitoring, backup, and related enterprise solutions. Its apparent business model is the sale of hosting capacity, server infrastructure, cloud implementation, and managed technology services to business customers.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent corporate hosting and cloud-services profile, with no detected phishing, brand-impersonation, malicious-content, wallet-drainer, cloaking, or hidden-form indicators. The site’s long-running historical continuity and clean external reputation are consistent with an established website rather than a newly created impersonation operation. Real-world operator identity remains independently unverified, so the apparent legitimacy of the site should not be treated as proof of a specific legal or commercial identity.
- Domain registration record: registered 2002-04-22; reconciled continuity age 26.184804928131417 years.
- Web archive: 320 snapshots spanning 2000-06-03 to 2026-06-06, with 27 years tracked.
- External reputation checks evaluated the domain without malicious or suspicious classifications, blacklist hits, or abuse reports.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage describes paid infrastructure and managed technology services and includes company registration information and contact details. The supplied evidence does not establish a regulated financial or other licensed activity, and no license number is presented for independent confirmation; this is a regulatory-disclosure verification point, not evidence of a scam. The available material is consistent with an established corporate service provider, although independent confirmation of the real-world operator remains outstanding.
- Homepage: describes dedicated servers, VPS hosting, colocation, hybrid cloud, managed security, monitoring, backup, and enterprise services.
- Hosting infrastructure: served from AS9318, SK Broadband Co Ltd, KR.
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 at OV validation level, valid to 2026-09-08.
What to Verify Next
Before credential submission or payment for a service contract, an organization should independently match the company registration details and contracting entity against the relevant corporate registry, confirm the applicable service terms and refund or cancellation provisions, and use payment methods with appropriate commercial protections. Contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route before material transactions.
- Homepage: provides company registration information and business contact details that can be compared with independent corporate records.
- Homepage: presents a paid-service model involving infrastructure provisioning and managed service arrangements.
- Page capture: contained no login form, sensitive form, or untrusted form destination.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. The absence of independent operator verification limits the strength of any conclusion about the underlying real-world entity, but no scam or impersonation contradiction was identified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The supplied infrastructure record does not confirm a CDN or WAF layer. No additional conclusion about origin exposure is warranted from the available infrastructure record; this is a technical limitation rather than a finding of maliciousness.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary browsing is proportionate to the evidence, while independent merchant-identity, contractual, and payment-protection checks should be completed before credentials or payment details are provided.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-11 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 hostcenter.co.kr.
- The request stayed on hostcenter.co.kr. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under hostcenter(http://www.domainclub.kr). Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by co.kr, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-04-22. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2000-06-03. Clear
- It is hosted on SKB-AS-KR, from a server in KR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | hostcenter(http://www.domainclub.kr) |
|---|---|
| Hosting | SKB-AS-KR - SK Broadband Co Ltd, KR |
| Country | KR |
| Server IP | 221.143.49.53 |
| Name servers | ns1.hostcenter.co.kr, ns2.hostcenter.co.kr |
| SSL issuer | GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-08 |
| Domain age | 26.18 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-04-22 |
| Archive first seen | 2000-06-03 |
| Archive snapshots | 320 |
| 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 hostcenter.co.kr 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.