Verdict
instore.co.in 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 | Instore is an established Chennai-based women's clothing retailer offering kurtis, ethnic wear, and related apparel online and through multiple physical stores. The page features product listings, discounts, customer reviews, store locations, policies, contact information, and fashion-oriented content. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | 175 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 21 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2011106 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2011.
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
Full analysis
Overview
Instore is an established Chennai-based women’s clothing retailer presenting kurtis, ethnic wear, coordinated outfits, discounts, customer reviews, and physical-store access through an online storefront; its apparent business model is direct apparel sales.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site presents a coherent retail identity across product listings, store information, customer-service pages, and policies, with no detected phishing, brand-impersonation, malicious-content, or suspicious behavioral indicators. The business presentation is consistent with ordinary ecommerce activity rather than an abuse-oriented or deceptive interaction model.
- Homepage: 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections; no external blacklist match.
- Homepage behavior: 2 successful evaluation runs, 0 external requests, 0 hidden forms, 0 wallet activity, and no cloaking.
- Domain registration: Registered 2005 (~20.75 years old).
- Web archive: 106 snapshots spanning 2011–2026 (16 years tracked).
Regulatory Verification Notes
The About Us, Contact Us, store-location, shipping, and returns content provides substantive commercial and customer-service disclosure for a clothing retailer. No specific financial-services licensing claim is relevant to the stated apparel business model; any applicable consumer-commerce registration or local business requirements should be assessed separately. The available external reputation context is clean, while the site’s authority footprint is moderate rather than a basis for regulatory classification.
- Homepage: Product listings, pricing, discounts, customer reviews, and the statement “Trusted Fashion Name since 2005.”
- Customer-service pages: Shipping and delivery, return policy, contact, and store-information content are present.
- Registration record: Registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC; organization listed as Instore; expiration 2031-11-07.
- Hosting and transport: Served through AS13335 (Cloudflare); TLS certificate issued by YE2, DV validation, valid to 2026-10-26.
What to Verify Next
Before a commercial purchase, confirm the selected store location, delivery terms, return conditions, and order-support route using the site’s published customer-service pages. For institutional onboarding, independently confirm any registration requirements applicable to the transaction and retain the relevant purchase and policy records.
- Homepage: “Our Retail Stores,” “Customer Service,” “Shipping & Delivery Policy,” and “Return Policy” are directly presented.
- Site navigation: About Us and Contact Us pages are available for identity and support confirmation.
- Product pages: Prices, sizes, sale status, and apparel descriptions are displayed before checkout.
Summary Verdict
The website has a high-confidence established-business posture with strong alignment between its identity, commercial purpose, historical presence, and observed technical behavior. Normal interaction, including account access and standard ecommerce use, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection is present, and the observed addresses are CDN edge infrastructure rather than exposed origin candidates. This reduces direct origin exposure and provides a meaningful protective control, while remaining a mitigation rather than proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users may proceed with normal browsing, account activity, and standard purchases, applying ordinary transaction-record and policy-review practices.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-01 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 |
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| 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 instore.co.in.
- The request stayed on instore.co.in. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by domaincontrol.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2031-11-07. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-03-05. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in CA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | CA |
| Server IP | 23.227.38.65 |
| Name servers | ns26.domaincontrol.com, ns25.domaincontrol.com |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-26 |
| Domain age | 20.8 years |
| Domain expiry | 2031-11-07 |
| Archive first seen | 2011-03-05 |
| Archive snapshots | 106 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 175 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about instore.co.in 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.