Verdict
hostgator.cl 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 | Marketing/landing page for HostGator Chile promoting web hosting, domain registration, and an 'AllPass' subscription bundle. Contains pricing snippets, product categories, and company pages/links. |
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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 | 9.0 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- 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 Chile-focused commercial web-services website presenting HostGator-branded solutions for creating and operating websites, with an apparent business model based on recurring hosting subscriptions, domain services, and related add-ons.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictory scam, phishing, or impersonation signals were observed. The homepage presents a coherent commercial offering under the HostGator Chile name, including web hosting, domain registration, professional email, SSL certificates, site builders, servers, and the AllPass subscription, with pricing, promotional conditions, Spanish-language support, and a stated 30-day refund period. The similarity to the broader HostGator brand was assessed as a legitimate brand variant rather than an impersonation pattern; however, the real-world operator identity is not independently verified. The combination of a long-established domain, an established traffic footprint, clean external reputation telemetry, and substantive business content supports an apparently legitimate, low-risk interpretation.
- The homepage identifies the service as “Hosting Web en Chile” and lists hosting, domain, email, SSL, site-builder, VPS, dedicated-server, and AllPass offerings.
- The homepage contains no login form, sensitive form, hidden form, wallet connection, or suspicious browser behavior.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no phishing warning; the site’s traffic rank was 29024 and it was within the top 1 million.
- The site’s registration record lists creation date 2017-08-10 and domain age 9.02 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The reviewed content is consistent with a commercial hosting and software-services provider rather than a financial service requiring a financial license. The site links to About, Terms of Service, Privacy, service-status, and ethical-hacking pages, but no regulatory license or registration number is claimed in the reviewed material. That is a disclosure and verification point, not evidence of a scam. The registration record identifies Ascio Technologies Inc. Danmark - filial af Ascio Technologies Inc. USA as registrar and lists Endurance International Group, Inc. as the organization, but these records do not independently prove the operating entity behind the website.
- The homepage links to About HostGator, Terms of Service, Privacy, service-status, and related company pages.
- The registration record lists registrar Ascio Technologies Inc. Danmark - filial af Ascio Technologies Inc. USA.
- The domain is registered from 2017-08-10 through 2027-08-10.
- The site uses a TLS certificate issued by WE1 with DV validation, valid to 2026-10-31T14:33:47+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an independent check should confirm the legal entity responsible for HostGator Chile and its relationship to the HostGator brand. The applicable Terms of Service and Privacy documentation should be reviewed for renewal, promotional-pricing, refund, and data-use conditions, and payment protection should be confirmed for any purchase. Official support and contact channels should be validated through an independently sourced route rather than relying solely on information reached through the landing page.
- The homepage states that promotional prices are subject to conditions.
- The homepage advertises a refund period of up to 30 days.
- Company, terms, privacy, and service-status navigation is present on the reviewed page.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence supports a high-trust, low-risk posture consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. No scam or impersonation contradictions were observed, although the operator’s real-world identity remains independently unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is delivered through Cloudflare’s CDN/WAF infrastructure, which is a mitigating control against direct exposure of the underlying service and supports stable edge delivery; protective hosting infrastructure is not, by itself, proof of ownership or legitimacy.
- Served from AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US), with observed edge IP 104.21.71.112.
- The infrastructure record identifies Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection and 4 observed edge IPs, with 0 likely origin IPs.
- TLS is issued by WE1 at DV validation level and expires 2026-10-31T14:33:47+00:00.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and ordinary service evaluation are proportionate to the assessment, while independent merchant-identity, policy, and payment-protection checks should be completed before submitting credentials or making a purchase.
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 | 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 hostgator.cl.
- The request stayed on hostgator.cl. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Ascio Technologies Inc. Danmark - filial af Ascio Technologies Inc. USA. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-08-10. Noted
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Ascio Technologies Inc. Danmark - filial af Ascio Technologies Inc. USA |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3035::6815:4770 |
| Name servers | jessica.ns.cloudflare.com, ray.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-31 |
| Domain age | 9.02 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-10 |
| 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 hostgator.cl 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.