Verdict
kauai.co.za 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 | Kauai-branded restaurant website promoting locations, franchising, promotions, a mobile app, event orders, and newsletter subscriptions. |
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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 | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 25 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2001483 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 2001.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
A Kauai-branded restaurant and franchise website presenting menus, locations, promotions, franchising opportunities, event orders, a mobile application, and newsletter subscriptions for consumer engagement.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No phishing, impersonation, blacklist, or conflicting-identity indicators were observed. The homepage presents an ordinary restaurant and franchise model, with a newsletter form collecting only a first name and email address; no login, payment, cryptocurrency, or deceptive financial features were identified. Independent reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious classification, supporting a legitimate and established identity.
- Homepage: restaurant, locations, franchising, promotions, app, and event-order content.
- Homepage: one newsletter-subscription form with no sensitive fields or untrusted destination.
- Reputation checks: zero malicious and zero suspicious detections; no blacklist finding.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website’s apparent activities are commercial food service, franchising, event orders, and consumer marketing rather than a regulated financial service. No license or registration claim is evident on the reviewed pages; this is a limited disclosure matter relevant to any jurisdiction-specific franchise or commercial diligence, not evidence of deception. The domain and site history provide strong continuity: registration through 1-Grid identifies Modern Web Presence, while sustained historical activity is consistent with an established business presence.
- Domain registration: 2001-09-20; age 24.88 years; registrar 1-Grid; registrant organization Modern Web Presence.
- Web archive: 483 snapshots from 2001-11-30 through 2026-04-30, spanning 26 years.
- TLS certificate: issued by YE2 at DV validation level, valid to 2026-10-02.
What to Verify Next
For franchise or event-order engagement, confirm the applicable commercial terms and the official business contact route through the site’s Contact & Customer Care or Franchising pages. Where a transaction involves a specific jurisdiction or contractual commitment, independently confirm the relevant franchise or business-registration details with the applicable authority.
- Homepage: links to Contact & Customer Care, Franchising, and Event Orders.
- Franchising page: appropriate source for confirming commercial opportunity terms.
- Contact & Customer Care page: appropriate source for validating official engagement channels.
Summary Verdict
The website is legitimate, established, and suitable for normal interaction, including account-related or standard consumer use where offered. Its coherent business purpose, sustained history, clean reputation, and absence of contradictory signals support a high-confidence trust posture.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed traffic terminating on Cloudflare edge servers rather than an exposed origin. This provides a meaningful layer of defensive mitigation, although protective hosting alone is not proof of legitimacy.
- Hosting: AS13335, CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- Observed edge IP: 104.21.28.105; four observed addresses were identified as CDN edge servers.
- Infrastructure: Cloudflare CDN/WAF detected; no origin candidate was observed.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing, login where provided, newsletter subscription, and standard consumer or business interactions are appropriate, subject to ordinary review of contractual terms for higher-value franchise or event-order commitments.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-02 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 kauai.co.za.
- The request stayed on kauai.co.za. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under 1-Grid. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-09-20. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2001-11-30. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | 1-Grid |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3030::ac43:91d8 |
| Name servers | mona.ns.cloudflare.com, cartman.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-02 |
| Domain age | 24.9 years |
| Domain expiry | 2026-09-20 |
| Archive first seen | 2001-11-30 |
| Archive snapshots | 483 |
| 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 kauai.co.za 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.