Verdict
hoststar.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 for Hoststar offering hosting plans, domains, vServers, website builder and reseller programs. Includes pricing, product descriptions, tools, blog and company/legal pages. |
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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
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Hoststar is a corporate commercial website offering web hosting, domain registration, virtual servers, website-building tools, webshop solutions, support services, and reseller programs, with revenue apparently derived from recurring subscriptions, domain services, add-ons, and related business accounts.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No phishing, impersonation, blacklist, or conflicting-identity contradictions were observed. The website presents a coherent commercial hosting proposition, with product navigation, pricing-oriented content, support functions, company information, and links to established social platforms. Available technical and reputation observations are consistent with a genuine operating service rather than a deceptive lookalike. The operator’s real-world identity is nevertheless assessed as likely rather than independently verified, so the site’s apparent legitimacy should not be treated as conclusive proof of the legal entity behind it.
- The homepage identifies the service as Hoststar and provides structured navigation for hosting, websites, domains, webshops, tools, support, company information, and contact functions.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no phishing or blacklist finding; the domain was also within the top 1 million websites, with an exact traffic rank of 18798.
- Behavioral inspection found no cloaking, hidden forms, wallet-drainer activity, clipboard hijacking, or brand-impersonation indicator; two successful runs returned stable HTTP 200 responses.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The company, legal, contact, pricing, and product pages provide the substance expected of a commercial SaaS provider. The available material does not establish an independently verified operator identity, and licensing or registration disclosures are unclear; this is a transparency and verification matter rather than evidence of a scam. The services described are commercial hosting and infrastructure offerings, not a claimed regulated financial product. A separate broker-reputation dataset produced no match, which is contextual reassurance only and not a licensing determination.
- The site includes company, legal, contact, pricing, product, blog, and support content, including named offerings such as StarEntry, StarBiz, StarPlus, Windows Hosting, WordPress Extendify, My Panel, Hoststar VPN, Hoststar Safe, and Secure Web.
- The homepage contains two non-sensitive forms, identified as search and newsletter forms, with no untrusted form destination detected.
- Transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, valid to 2027-01-11T23:59:59+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an organisation should independently match the operator named on the company and legal pages against an appropriate corporate registry and confirm the applicable service terms, cancellation provisions, refunds, and payment-protection arrangements. Official support and contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route, particularly before provisioning business-critical infrastructure or transferring an existing domain.
- The homepage offers recurring hosting, domain, virtual-server, website-builder, webshop, and reseller services with product and pricing content.
- The site provides dedicated company, legal, contact, support, and terms-related navigation areas suitable for independent review.
- The site links to Facebook and Instagram accounts as external social-presence references.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. No contradictory indicators were observed, although the available evidence does not independently prove the real-world operator identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by CDN/WAF infrastructure, which mitigates direct exposure of the service origin and is a positive resilience signal, but it is not proof of legitimacy. The observed infrastructure resolves through Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany, with no origin candidate identified in this analysis.
- Served from AS24940, HETZNER-AS – Hetzner Online GmbH, DE; observed address 46.4.87.141.
- The infrastructure record identifies one CDN edge address, one edge IP, and zero likely origin IPs.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and ordinary service evaluation are proportionate to the available evidence; independent merchant-identity, terms, and payment-protection checks should be completed before credentials or funds are committed.
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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 76/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 76% |
- Trusted social count=2
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 hoststar.ch.
- The request stayed on hoststar.ch. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- It is hosted on HETZNER-AS, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 46.4.87.141 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-01-11 |
| 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 hoststar.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.