Verdict
inkdonostia.com 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 | Website for Ink Donostia, a design studio in Donostia - San Sebastián showcasing portfolio work (branding, campaigns, merchandising), contact details (phone and email), and legal/privacy notices. Language content in Spanish/Basque. No visible login or payment flows. |
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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 | 24 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2004Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2004.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Ink Donostia is a Spanish/Basque-language portfolio website for a local graphic and advertising design studio in Donostia–San Sebastián, presenting branding, logo design, communication campaigns, print and merchandising work, together with contact details and standard legal notices; its apparent business model is to obtain client commissions for design services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent professional-services model, including portfolio work, client collaboration, branding, campaigns, print and merchandising, rather than a deceptive payment or credential-capture flow. The site has no visible login, payment, wallet-connection, or sensitive-data form, and technical behavior showed no cloaking, hidden forms, clipboard activity, or other abuse patterns. External screening produced no malicious or suspicious detections, while the domain’s long registration history is consistent with an established web presence. The homepage’s statement that the studio has more than 25 years of experience is broadly consistent with the domain’s registration continuity, although the real-world operator remains independently unverified.
- Homepage: identifies the business as a design studio, describes more than 25 years of experience, and presents branding, campaign, logo-design, print, and merchandising work.
- Homepage and contact page: show a contact-and-commission business flow with no visible login, payment, or sensitive-data form.
- Domain registration: created 2002-03-27 and approximately 24.42 years old; registrar is Name SRS AB.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site includes an Aviso Legal, Política de Privacidad, and Política de Cookies, and displays a claim of membership in KontsumoBIDE. These are positive transparency features for a local services website, but they do not independently verify the operator’s legal identity. No financial, investment, or other regulated-service activity is presented, and no license or registration number is claimed on the reviewed pages; this is a disclosure point for ordinary commercial due diligence rather than evidence of deception. A third-party broker-reputation check returned no match, which is a neutral contextual signal and not a licensing determination. The overall evidence remains consistent with an established, apparently legitimate site.
- Legal-notice and privacy pages: provide legal, privacy, and cookie disclosures; the reviewed material does not state a regulated license or registration number.
- Homepage: displays the KontsumoBIDE membership claim and identifies the service as design and advertising work.
- Hosting infrastructure: served from AS60458, ASN-XTUDIONET - XNET CORE SL, ES.
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by YR2 with DV validation, valid to 2026-11-13.
What to Verify Next
Before a commercial engagement, independently confirm the legal entity named in the site’s legal notice through the relevant Spanish business or consumer-protection records. Confirm the scope, pricing, ownership of creative work, cancellation terms, and invoicing arrangements in a written agreement, and ensure any payment method provides appropriate commercial protection. Contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route before sensitive account or payment interactions.
- Aviso Legal: provides the appropriate starting point for matching the site to a real-world business identity.
- Contact page: provides the operational channel for confirming the proposed engagement and contractual counterparty.
- Portfolio and service pages: define the advertised work categories against which a written statement of work can be compared.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture for its stated design-studio purpose. The classification is not equivalent to independent proof of the real-world operator’s identity, so legitimacy should be understood as evidence-consistent rather than conclusively established.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single apparent origin address rather than a CDN-backed edge network, so it does not receive the additional exposure-mitigation benefit of a mainstream CDN or WAF. This is a limited infrastructure observation, not an indication of maliciousness; the resolved service is technically reachable and supported by valid transport encryption.
- DNS and hosting resolution: one unique IP address, 46.175.128.180, with no detected CDN or WAF vendor.
- Hosting location: the resolved address is in Spain and is associated with the stated Spanish hosting organization.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary engagement is proportionate to the assessed posture, subject to confirming the counterparty, written commercial terms, and payment protections before credentials or funds are exchanged.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 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 inkdonostia.com.
- The request stayed on inkdonostia.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Name SRS AB. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by sered.net, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-03-27. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2004-03-26. Clear
- It is hosted on ASN-XTUDIONET, from a server in ES. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Name SRS AB |
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| Hosting | ASN-XTUDIONET - XNET CORE SL, ES |
| Country | ES |
| Server IP | 46.175.128.180 |
| Name servers | DNS1.SERED.NET, DNS2.SERED.NET, DNS3.SERED.NET, DNS4.SERED.NET |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-13 |
| Domain age | 24.42 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-03-27 |
| Archive first seen | 2004-03-26 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| 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 inkdonostia.com 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.