Verdict
makeshop.jp 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 | Official marketing site for makeshop by GMO: an established SaaS ecommerce platform offering store building, templates, payments, marketing integrations, pricing plans, support services and enterprise options. Contact numbers and professional service offerings are present; content emphasizes features, case studies, and security. |
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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 | 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 | 23 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20035000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020 | 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 2003.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
makeshop.jp is the official marketing site for makeshop byGMO, presenting a SaaS ecommerce platform for building and managing online stores. It offers store construction tools, design templates, payment integrations, marketing and customer-management functions, subscription plans, support, professional services, and enterprise options.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed across the site content, technical indicators, historical continuity, and external reputation checks. The homepage presents a coherent ecommerce-platform business model rather than a deceptive investment, cryptocurrency, or high-pressure payment scheme; it describes features such as one-click store creation, B2B and cross-border ecommerce, recurring sales, CRM, inventory management, payment functionality, and an application marketplace. The site also provides structured support routes, case studies, pricing information, and professional service offerings. The available evidence is therefore consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
- The homepage identifies the service as “makeshop byGMO” and provides detailed ecommerce functionality, pricing, case studies, support, and service information.
- The domain was registered on 2003-10-15 and is approximately 22.84 years old.
- Historical records show 5,000 archive snapshots from 2003-07-26 through 2023-11-04, covering 21 years with a maximum recorded gap of 1 year.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no phishing or impersonation findings.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available pages present a commercial SaaS offering and identify the service as makeshop byGMO, but they do not independently establish the legal entity operating the domain. No regulatory license number or licensing authority is presented in the supplied site analysis; for an ecommerce-platform provider, this is primarily a disclosure and applicability question rather than evidence of a scam. Any payment-related service terms, contractual obligations, data-processing responsibilities, and applicable consumer or business protections should therefore be assessed against the relevant contracting entity before formal procurement.
- The homepage describes subscription-based ecommerce software, optional paid services, payment integrations, and enterprise support.
- The reviewed page content includes professional support routes and telephone contact numbers, but the supplied evidence does not independently verify the operator’s legal identity.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV TLS certificate issued by GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020, valid through 2026-10-31.
What to Verify Next
Before credential submission, contracting, or payment activity, an organization should independently confirm that the makeshop byGMO service is the intended supplier and that the contracting entity, service terms, refund or cancellation provisions, and payment-protection arrangements are acceptable. For regulated payment functionality or a deployment involving sensitive customer data, the applicable registry status, data-processing documentation, security commitments, and escalation contacts should be confirmed through independent corporate or offline channels.
- The homepage provides distinct routes for login, free trial, customer support, partner enquiries, and service consultations.
- The site presents pricing plans, enterprise options, payment services, and professional support, creating identifiable contractual and operational areas for procurement review.
- The reviewed content includes a contact-information form and signup call to action, without a detected sensitive credential form or untrusted form destination.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with the available evidence consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. No scam, phishing, impersonation, or other contradictory signal was identified, while the operator’s real-world identity remains independently unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by AWS CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed hosting on AS16509 operated by Amazon.com, Inc.; all four observed addresses were CDN edge servers and no origin-server address was identified in the analysis. This architecture is a mitigating control because it reduces direct exposure of the origin, but protective infrastructure alone does not establish legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal evaluation may proceed on a measured basis, provided independent supplier-identity, contractual, data-protection, and payment-protection checks are completed before material commitments or credential and payment interactions.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-11 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 makeshop.jp.
- The request stayed on makeshop.jp. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by awsdns-14.org, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-31. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2003-07-26. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
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| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 52.69.29.152 |
| Name servers | ns-1143.awsdns-14.org, ns-794.awsdns-35.net, ns-178.awsdns-22.com, ns-1560.awsdns-03.co.uk |
| SSL issuer | GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-31 |
| Domain age | 23.04 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-31 |
| Archive first seen | 2003-07-26 |
| Archive snapshots | 5000 |
| 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 makeshop.jp 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.