Verdict
kinetiq.com.au 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 | KinetIQ is an Australian enterprise data and AI consulting firm (founded 2016) offering data platform delivery, governance, AI advisory and program delivery. The site includes services, case studies, client sectors, contact form, privacy policy and contact details (email, phone, postal). No signs of credential harvesting, payments, or impersonation were observed. |
|---|
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 | 22% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 711 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 9.9 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2016Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2016.
- 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
KinetIQ is an Australian enterprise data and artificial-intelligence consulting website presenting data-platform delivery, data governance, AI advisory, implementation, case studies, and program-delivery services for business clients; its apparent business model is professional-services engagements rather than consumer payments or financial products.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No phishing, impersonation, payment-harvesting, or credential-harvesting contradictions were observed. The contact page uses a standard enquiry form without sensitive fields, and the site does not present a login workflow, wallet connection, token offering, or financial-return proposition. An external abuse-report signal concerns a shared data-centre IP attributed to A100 ROW GmbH, with the reports applying to shared provider infrastructure rather than being tied to the website itself; this is a limited contextual signal, not evidence of site-level abuse. The available evidence is therefore consistent with an established, apparently legitimate corporate website, while the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
- The contact page contains one non-sensitive contact form; behavioural testing detected no login form, hidden form, password submission, wallet activity, or clipboard manipulation.
- The domain was registered in 2016 and is approximately 9.88 years old.
- Web-archive records contain 45 snapshots spanning 2016–2025, covering 10 years of tracked history.
- Shared-infrastructure reporting records 711 reports for the assessed hosting IP, with a confidence score of 22 and attribution to data-centre/web-hosting infrastructure.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site operates as a B2B consulting service and does not claim to provide a regulated financial product or display a financial-services licence number. Its privacy policy identifies “KinetIQ Pty Ltd,” publishes ABN 66 611 854 249, and references the Australian Privacy Act 1988 and Australian Privacy Principles. The registration record identifies Melbourne IT as registrar and names KINETIQ ANALYTICS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD; this supports a corporate registration trail but does not independently prove that the website operator and the disclosed business entity are the same. Licensing is consequently a routine verification matter for any engagement that could extend beyond ordinary consulting services. No matching broker signal was identified in the available third-party context.
- The privacy-policy page identifies KinetIQ Pty Ltd and ABN 66 611 854 249, with a stated last update of January 2026.
- The registration record lists Melbourne IT as registrar.
- The homepage, services, case-studies, about, contact, and privacy-policy pages form a coherent corporate-consulting information set.
- The site’s hosting record identifies AS16509, Amazon.com, Inc., US.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an enterprise counterparty should independently confirm the disclosed business identity and ABN through the relevant Australian registry, obtain engagement and payment details through independently confirmed contact channels, and ensure that contractual liability, deliverables, and refund or dispute terms are documented. If the proposed service involves regulated data, financial advice, or another licensed activity, the applicable authorisation should be confirmed with the relevant regulator rather than inferred from the website.
- The contact page provides telephone and postal contact details suitable for an independent callback and address confirmation.
- The site describes a contract-based consulting relationship, making written scope, counterparty, payment, and dispute terms material to onboarding.
- The absence of a login or payment workflow on the assessed pages means any later credential or payment request should be treated as a separate interaction requiring channel confirmation.
Summary Verdict
The website presents a high-trust, low-risk posture and the evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate enterprise consultancy. No scam or impersonation contradictions were observed. The classification supports ordinary business engagement, subject to the stated uncertainty that the real-world operator identity has not been independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by AWS CDN/WAF infrastructure, and all observed addresses were CDN edge servers; the origin server was not observable in this assessment. This arrangement mitigates direct origin exposure and supports infrastructure resilience, but it is a protective control rather than proof of corporate legitimacy.
- Served from AS16509, Amazon.com, Inc. (AMAZON-02), US.
- Two observed edge IP addresses were associated with AS16509; zero likely origin candidates were identified.
- The transport certificate is issued by YE1, uses domain validation (DV), and is valid to 2026-10-15T01:06:38+00:00.
Closing Assessment
Proceed as with a credible prospective business counterparty, completing the ordinary independent identity, contractual, return or dispute, and payment-protection checks before submitting credentials or making payments.
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.
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 711 reports on hosting IP 35.157.26.135 (A100 ROW GmbH, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 22% 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 kinetiq.com.au.
- The request stayed on kinetiq.com.au. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Melbourne IT. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by nsone.net, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2016-10-03. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Melbourne IT |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 35.157.26.135 |
| Name servers | dns1.p05.nsone.net, dns2.p05.nsone.net, dns3.p05.nsone.net, dns4.p05.nsone.net |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-15 |
| Domain age | 9.88 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2016-10-03 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 22% confidence, 711 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about kinetiq.com.au 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.