Verdict
hotelmetro.it is low-trust and potentially risky.
Several risk patterns were present. Do not send money or personal details until you have verified this business another way.
| What this site appears to be | Official website for Hotel Metrò, a 3-star hotel in Milan offering room descriptions, services, booking/reservation contact, location details, company registration and privacy notices. |
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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 | 2 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 25 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2002Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2002.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Hotel Metrò’s website presents a three-star hotel in central Milan, with room descriptions, amenities, location information, event and catering services, reservation contacts, company details, and privacy notices. Its apparent business model is direct hospitality sales through room bookings and related hotel services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is consistent with a conventional hotel website: it describes accommodation, services, Milan location details, and reservation facilities, and no page-level brand-impersonation or hidden-login indicator was identified. However, this benign presentation is materially contradicted by external reputation evidence recording malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist status. The contradictions are not explained by the site content, so the website should be treated as unsuitable for credentials, payments, or other sensitive interactions until independently validated. No conflicting legal-entity names, direct impersonation finding, or site-level phishing indicator was recorded. A long-standing registration and historical continuity provide context but do not neutralize the confirmed reputation findings.
- The homepage and hotel pages describe a three-star Milan hotel, approximately 40 rooms, accommodation services, and reservation facilities.
- External reputation assessment recorded 2 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection, with a confirmed blacklist status.
- The domain was registered in 2001 and is approximately 25.17 years old.
- Historical records show 171 archive snapshots spanning 2002–2026, covering 25 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents company-registration and VAT information together with privacy and cookie notices, but the real-world operator remains independently unverified in the available evidence. No specific licensing claim or license number is supplied for validation. The domain registration record lists 1 Api GmbH as registrar and identifies HOTEL METRO - IMMOBILIARE VERCELLI 61 SRL as the registrant organization; this is an attributable registration detail, not proof that the website is currently operated by that entity. The absence of a broker-dataset match does not constitute a legal or regulatory determination. The available TLS and hosting indicators support technical operation, but they do not establish regulatory authorization or business identity.
- The contact, privacy, and company-information pages present business and VAT details for the hospitality operation.
- The domain registration record lists registrar 1 Api GmbH.
- The site is served from AS16276 (OVH - OVH SAS, FR).
- The transport certificate is issued by YR1, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-09-23.
What to Verify Next
Before any reservation payment or transmission of personal information, an independent party should confirm that the hotel’s legal name and VAT details correspond to the physical Milan property and to the intended payment recipient. Reservation terms, cancellation conditions, and refund arrangements should be obtained directly from an independently sourced hotel contact or established booking channel. Any payment destination should be checked for consistency with the verified property rather than relying solely on contact details displayed on the website. Until those checks are complete, interaction should remain limited to non-sensitive browsing.
- The site provides a reservation/contact workflow that creates a direct interaction and payment-related verification requirement.
- The legal and privacy pages provide the identifiers needed for independent company and property checks.
- The available analysis found no login form, hidden sensitive form, wallet connection, or password submission to an external destination.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated risk for sensitive interaction. Although the website’s presentation is coherent with a small hotel business and the domain has substantial continuity, the confirmed external reputation contradictions prevent the site from being treated as a trustworthy destination for credentials or financial activity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by a CDN/WAF, and the observed edge infrastructure is associated with AS16276 operated by OVH - OVH SAS in France. The origin server was not observable in this analysis. This protective architecture can reduce direct exposure of the origin, but it is only a mitigating technical control and does not establish legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate course is to restrict use to limited informational browsing until the property, operator, and payment arrangements have been confirmed through an independent channel; credentials and financial information should not be submitted in the interim.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership, analysis engine.
01 Governance Risk
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat
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 hotelmetro.it.
- The request stayed on hotelmetro.it. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under 1 Api GmbH. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by trippete.net. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-05-15. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2002-03-23. Clear
- It is hosted on OVH, from a server in FR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | 1 Api GmbH |
|---|---|
| Hosting | OVH - OVH SAS, FR |
| Country | FR |
| Server IP | 51.75.242.37 |
| Name servers | ns1.trippete.net ns2.trippete.net |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-23 |
| Domain age | 25.17 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-05-15 |
| Archive first seen | 2002-03-23 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about hotelmetro.it 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.