Verdict
hostiq.ua 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 for HOSTiQ hosting in Ukraine. Contains cookie/consent disclosures and a long list of third-party trackers, analytics and marketing integrations. No forms requesting sensitive credentials or payments on the captured page content. Appears to be an informational/service sales page for hosting subscriptions. |
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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 | 9.9 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2017775 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA EV R36 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2017.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
HOSTiQ is a corporate Ukrainian hosting provider offering hosting plans, customer support, and related online services through a subscription-based service model. The homepage presents an informational and commercial service site rather than a financial, cryptocurrency, or credential-harvesting platform.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: the available evidence identifies no phishing, impersonation, malicious-content, or conflicting-identity signal. The homepage describes a conventional hosting business, links to established social and support channels, and presents no confirmed sensitive-credential or payment form in the captured content. Dynamic testing recorded substantial page changes, several suspicious inline-script heuristics, and limited non-whitelisted posting activity; however, the same testing found no cloaking, wallet activity, clipboard manipulation, hidden forms, or wallet-drainer behavior. These technical anomalies are therefore more consistent with a complex consent, analytics, and marketing implementation than with a confirmed impersonation pattern. The site is apparently legitimate and established, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
- The homepage is classified as a corporate hosting/service page and contains no red-flag or brand-impersonation finding.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, with no threat-list hit identified for the domain.
- The domain registration record shows registration on 2016-09-12 and an age of 9.92 years; archival coverage records 775 snapshots from 2017-02-24 through 2026-06-20 across 10 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s apparent business activity is the sale of hosting and related online services, not a service category that inherently requires the type of financial licensing associated with brokerage or investment platforms. The available homepage content does not present a licensing claim or registration number, so the legal-entity and commercial-disclosure record should be treated as requiring ordinary business verification rather than as evidence of a scam. The identity assessment remains likely rather than independently verified. Standard consent and privacy disclosures are present, including disclosure of analytics, advertising, social-media, and support integrations. A mid-level page-authority signal and an established traffic footprint provide contextual support for an operating service business but do not independently establish the operator’s legal identity.
- The homepage identifies HOSTiQ as a Ukrainian hosting provider and describes hosting, support, and related services.
- No licensing claim or registration number is presented in the captured site content.
- The site is served on AS13335 by CLOUDFLARENET — Cloudflare, Inc.; its TLS certificate is EV, issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA EV R36, with validity through 2026-11-22.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an enterprise user should independently confirm the contracting legal entity, applicable Ukrainian business details, service terms, cancellation and refund provisions, and the payment-protection arrangements attached to a hosting subscription. The official support and contact channels should be confirmed through an independent, established channel, and any account or billing page should be checked to ensure that it remains within the expected HOSTiQ service environment.
- The homepage provides service and support information but does not show a licensing or registration identifier.
- The site discloses cookie consent and third-party analytics and marketing integrations.
- The captured page contains no 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 for its stated hosting-service purpose. No scam, phishing, impersonation, or other contradictory signal was observed, while the operator’s real-world identity remains not independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN and WAF protection fronts the site, with all observed addresses identified as Cloudflare edge infrastructure and no origin candidate observed. This reduces direct exposure of the underlying service infrastructure and is a mitigating control, but it is not, by itself, proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal evaluation of the service is reasonable, with ordinary independent checks of the contracting entity, service terms, and payment protections completed before credentials or payment details are submitted.
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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- Trusted social count=3
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 hostiq.ua.
- The request stayed on hostiq.ua. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under ФОП Скуріхін Микола Володимирович. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-09-12. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2017-02-24. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | ФОП Скуріхін Микола Володимирович |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:10::ac42:93e7 |
| Name servers | algin.ns.cloudflare.com, dora.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA EV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-22 |
| Domain age | 9.92 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-09-12 |
| Archive first seen | 2017-02-24 |
| Archive snapshots | 775 |
| 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 hostiq.ua 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.