Verdict
insanerobots.com shows high-risk / scam indicators.
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
| What this site appears to be | Official marketing/landing page for the indie video game 'Insane Robots' with product information, features, editions, trailers, press kit and accolades. No forms requesting sensitive data and no financial investment promises. |
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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 | 5 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 1 report; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 15 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2015Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 | 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 2015.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This website is a marketing and sales page for the indie video game *Insane Robots*, presenting Standard and Deluxe editions, gameplay features, trailers, screenshots, press materials, platform availability, and review quotations. Its apparent business model is one-time digital game purchases distributed through PC and console platforms rather than financial services or investment products.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The page content itself presents a coherent entertainment product and contains no observed login form, sensitive-data form, wallet-connect function, investment promise, or brand-impersonation indicator. However, independent threat-intelligence checks recorded malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist hit for the domain, creating a material contradiction that outweighs the benign appearance of the landing page. One abuse report was associated with shared IONOS infrastructure and was specifically discounted because it applied to a shared provider address; that signal is therefore weaker than the domain-level blacklist finding. The site’s real-world operator remains unverified, so the available content should not be treated as proof of identity or authenticity.
- The homepage presents *Insane Robots*, Standard and Deluxe editions, trailers, press materials, and platform availability, with no sensitive-data or login form observed.
- External reputation checks recorded 5 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection for the evaluated domain, together with a confirmed blacklist status.
- Domain registration evidence records creation on 2011-09-07, making the domain 14.96 years old; the registrar is CSL Computer Service Langenbach GmbH d/b/a joker.com.
- Archive coverage is recorded from 2015-01-08 through 2026-07-28, spanning 12 years tracked; the available archival record does not indicate suspicious repurposing or semantic drift.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The apparent activity is ordinary video-game marketing and distribution, not a regulated financial offering, and no financial licence claim is presented in the analyzed material. The site’s content does not independently verify the operator behind the brand; registration data associates the domain with Playniac Limited, but that association is not equivalent to verified site ownership or authorization. The transport certificate and hosting information are technically consistent with a functioning website, but neither establishes commercial legitimacy. The third-party broker dataset supplied for this assessment produced no match; this is contextual only and is not a licensing or regulatory determination.
- Registration data identifies Playniac Limited as the organization associated with the domain and CSL Computer Service Langenbach GmbH d/b/a joker.com as registrar.
- The site is hosted on AS8560, IONOS-AS - IONOS SE, DE.
- The site uses a DV TLS certificate issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, valid through 2026-10-21.
- The analyzed material contains no stated licence authority or licence number.
What to Verify Next
Before any download, purchase, account creation, or other sensitive interaction, the claimed developer and seller should be independently confirmed through established platform listings for Steam, Xbox, or PlayStation and through corporate records for Playniac Limited. Any payment should be completed only through a platform or merchant channel with clear buyer protection and an established dispute process. Official support and contact channels should be confirmed through an independent, offline route, and downloaded software should be checked using enterprise endpoint-security controls before execution.
- The homepage identifies Steam, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 as distribution platforms.
- The page describes one-time game editions and platform distribution rather than financial investment services.
- No login form, sensitive form, wallet connection, clipboard-hijacking behavior, or wallet-drainer behavior was observed during two successful behavioral runs.
Summary Verdict
The website has a critical trust posture for prospective engagement because domain-level external threat detections and a confirmed blacklist finding conflict with an otherwise conventional game-marketing presentation. The site’s apparent purpose is non-financial, but legitimacy and operator identity remain unverified, and the adverse external evidence requires a security-forward treatment of the domain.
Infrastructure Integrity
CDN/WAF protection is present, and all observed addresses were identified as CDN edge infrastructure rather than a directly observable origin; no origin candidate was identified in this analysis. This reduces direct exposure of the hosting environment and is a mitigating technical characteristic, but it does not validate the site’s legitimacy or neutralize the external reputation finding.
Closing Assessment
Pending independent confirmation of the developer, distribution channel, and transaction path, use should remain limited to non-sensitive inspection; login, credential submission, downloads, and payment activity should not proceed through the site.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
1 finding contributed to this verdict, raised by analysis engine, external reputation.
01 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - An external threat feed lists this domain: either Google Safe Browsing marked it malicious, or a significant number of malware engines flagged it.External reputation
rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_CRITICAL
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 1 report on hosting IP 2001:8d8:100f:f000::200 (1&1 IONOS SE, Content Delivery Network), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
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 insanerobots.com.
- The request stayed on insanerobots.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under CSL Computer Service Langenbach GmbH d/b/a joker.com. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ui-dns.biz, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-09-07. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2015-01-08. Clear
- It is hosted on IONOS-AS, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | CSL Computer Service Langenbach GmbH d/b/a joker.com |
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| Hosting | IONOS-AS - IONOS SE, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 2001:8d8:100f:f000::200 |
| Name servers | NS1045.UI-DNS.BIZ, NS1045.UI-DNS.COM, NS1045.UI-DNS.DE, NS1045.UI-DNS.ORG |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-21 |
| Domain age | 14.96 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-09-07 |
| Archive first seen | 2015-01-08 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 5 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 1 report | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about insanerobots.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.