Verdict
kilcodocostumes.com 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 | Artist/commission site for Kilcodo Costumes offering custom fursuits, artwork commissions, Etsy shop and Patreon support. Commission availability and contact email are listed. |
|---|
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 | 17 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2009Public 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 2009.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Kilcodo Costumes is an independent artist and commission website presenting custom-made fursuits, artwork commissions, gallery content, an Etsy shop, and Patreon support for visitors seeking handmade costumes, artwork, or creator patronage.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site itself presents a coherent small-business portfolio and no on-page brand-impersonation, phishing-form, hidden-form, or wallet-interaction indicators were observed. However, this benign presentation is materially outweighed by external threat detections: the domain is recorded as blacklisted by two external sources, with malicious and suspicious classifications present. This is a confirmed reputational contradiction and creates a serious concern for credential submission, payment activity, or other sensitive interaction, even though the available evidence does not establish that the site is impersonating a named third party.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 2 malicious and 2 suspicious detections; blacklist status was confirmed by 2 external sources.
- Domain registration telemetry records creation on 2009-07-03T23:47:15Z and an age of 17.14 years.
- Historical coverage shows the domain first seen on 2009-08-21T06:45:55Z and last seen on 2025-09-22T22:12:55Z, with 17 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage and linked site sections describe an independent artist selling custom fursuits, artwork commissions, digital downloads, Etsy items, and Patreon subscriptions rather than offering investments or regulated financial services. The site states that fursuit commissions are closed until Spring/Summer 2027 while artwork and badge commissions are open, but the available material does not independently verify the operator behind the “Kilcodo Costumes” identity. No regulated license claim or license number is presented; for this apparent ecommerce activity, that is a transparency and merchant-verification consideration rather than proof of misconduct. The external blacklist signal remains relevant reputational context, not a regulatory determination.
- The homepage identifies the operator as an independent fursuit maker and furry artist with more than 17 years of experience and links to About, Prices, Gallery, Artwork, and Adoptables pages.
- Registration is through ENOM, INC.; the recorded registration period runs from 2009-07-03T23:47:15Z to 2027-07-03T23:47:15Z.
- The site's transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YR1, valid to 2026-11-09T12:42:08+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, independently confirm that the artist, storefront, and payment destination correspond to the same real-world operator using established marketplace records or an offline contact route. For a commissioned purchase, obtain written terms covering deliverables, deposits, delivery timing, cancellation, refunds, and dispute handling, and use a payment method with meaningful buyer protection. Any claim that the activity is conducted through a registered business should be checked against the relevant corporate or tax registry rather than accepted solely from the website.
- The homepage provides the business description, commission status, pricing navigation, and links to Etsy and Patreon that can be compared against independently accessed profiles.
- The site contains no payment or credential form in the captured page, so any later request to move payment or authentication to a separate destination should be assessed separately.
- The site is built with Mobirise and contains limited search-engine metadata, which makes independent corroboration of the operator and commercial terms particularly important.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated sensitive-interaction risk. Although the website has the appearance of a small artisan portfolio and its identity claims remain plausible at a surface level, the confirmed external reputation contradiction prevents the available evidence from supporting safe engagement for credentials, payments, or other sensitive actions.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to Oracle Corporation hosting in the United States on AS31898. No CDN or WAF edge was identified in the supplied infrastructure facts; the hosting environment and valid transport encryption provide only limited technical context and do not offset the external reputation concern.
Closing Assessment
Restrict activity to non-sensitive browsing until the operator, commercial terms, and payment destination have been independently confirmed; credentials and financial transactions should not be used in the interim.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-19 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
- Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE - The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN
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 | 55/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 30% |
- 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 kilcodocostumes.com.
- The request stayed on kilcodocostumes.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under ENOM, INC.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by hostgator.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-07-03. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2009-08-21. Clear
- It is hosted on ORACLE-BMC-31898, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | ENOM, INC. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | ORACLE-BMC-31898 - Oracle Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 192.232.249.184 |
| Name servers | NS1813.HOSTGATOR.COM, NS1814.HOSTGATOR.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-09 |
| Domain age | 17.14 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-07-03 |
| Archive first seen | 2009-08-21 |
| 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 kilcodocostumes.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.