Verdict
hostfactory.ch 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 | Corporate website of a Swiss hosting provider (HOSTFACTORY® / OptimaNet Schweiz AG) offering domain registration, webhosting, VPS/cloud servers, sitebuilder and Microsoft 365/Exchange services with pricing, testimonials, contact channels and legal imprint. Appears legitimate and informational/commercial; no evident phishing or malicious prompts in provided content. |
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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 | Not availableNo registration record was returned | Noted |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| 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.
- 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
This is a Swiss commercial hosting provider website presenting HOSTFACTORY® services for domain registration, web hosting, VPS and cloud servers, site building, Microsoft 365/Exchange, online-shop solutions, support, and related managed services, monetized through subscription plans, domain fees, and service charges.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The available content does not indicate phishing, brand impersonation, malicious prompts, credential harvesting, or suspicious payment mechanics. The homepage presents a coherent hosting-services business with published pricing, contact routes, service descriptions, and a legal imprint; behavioral inspection also found no hidden forms, external posting, wallet activity, or suspicious script behavior. The site therefore presents an evidence-consistent low scam and impersonation risk, although the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
- Homepage: commercial hosting content, service pricing, contact channels, and a legal imprint are present; no red-flag indicators were identified.
- Homepage behavior: one contact form was observed, with no sensitive login form, hidden form, untrusted destination, or external form submission.
- External reputation checks: 0 malicious results, 0 suspicious results, and no blacklist or phishing finding were recorded; the site is ranked 21495 and is within the global top one million domains.
- Behavioral inspection: 2 runs completed successfully, with 0 external XHR/fetch requests, 0 wallet-connect runs, and 0 clipboard-hijack events.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The legal and commercial presentation identifies HOSTFACTORY® and OptimaNet Schweiz AG and describes a Swiss hosting business rather than a financial product or other visibly regulated offering. No specific license or registration number is claimed in the supplied site content; this is a transparency item for ordinary business verification, not evidence of a scam. The available evidence supports an apparently legitimate established site, but it does not independently prove that the on-page entity claims connect to a verified real-world operator. The transport and hosting configuration provides additional technical consistency with a functioning commercial service.
- Legal imprint and homepage: HOSTFACTORY® and OptimaNet Schweiz AG are identified alongside hosting, domain, cloud-server, and managed-service offerings.
- Hosting infrastructure: served from AS200713, FREY-AS - Zettaplan AG, CH.
- Site transport encryption: TLS issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, validation level DV, valid through 2027-02-10T23:59:59+00:00.
- Homepage: published plans include domain registration, web hosting, VPS/cloud servers, sitebuilder, and Microsoft 365/Exchange services; no license number is displayed in the supplied content.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an enterprise or prospective customer should independently match the operator named in the legal imprint against applicable Swiss business records and confirm that invoices, contractual terms, and support channels use the same entity. The relevant service terms, cancellation provisions, data-processing commitments, and any applicable consumer or business protections should be reviewed directly, with payment methods offering appropriate dispute or recovery mechanisms. If a regulated service is later offered, its authorization should be confirmed with the relevant regulator rather than inferred from the website.
- Legal imprint: provides the entity information to compare against an independent Swiss business registry.
- Service pages and pricing: identify the commercial offerings whose contractual terms, renewal conditions, and cancellation provisions should be checked.
- Contact and support pages: provide the channels that should be matched against account, invoice, and service documentation.
- Order and signup flow: should be checked for consistency between the named contracting entity, payment recipient, and published terms.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with the available evidence consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. The assessment supports normal site interaction in principle, while the absence of independent operator verification means that legitimacy should be treated as apparent rather than proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to a single direct hosting address on FREY-AS - Zettaplan AG in Switzerland, with no CDN or WAF identified and no separate edge-IP layer observed. This is a straightforward hosting posture rather than a protective CDN architecture; the valid Sectigo-issued TLS certificate mitigates transport-security concerns but is not proof of organizational legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary use is proportionate to the current assessment, provided that independent merchant-identity, contractual, and payment-protection checks are completed before credentials or payments are submitted.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-13 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 hostfactory.ch.
- The request stayed on hostfactory.ch. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- It is hosted on FREY-AS, from a server in CH. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
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| Hosting | FREY-AS - Zettaplan AG, CH |
| Country | CH |
| Server IP | 185.117.169.100 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-02-10 |
| Domain age | Not available (no registration date was returned) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| 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 hostfactory.ch 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.