Verdict
mapion.co.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 | Mapion is a Japanese mapping and local search service offering maps, route planning, weather, and business directory listings. The page contains extensive content and a detailed consent/TCF vendor list for advertising partners. |
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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 | 30 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 19975000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 | 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 1997.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Mapion is a Japanese mapping and local-search service that presents map and address searches, route planning, weather information, postcode and telephone lookups, local business listings, and related consumer and enterprise services, with advertising, paid listings, and business solutions forming its apparent commercial model.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage’s extensive, internally coherent mapping, navigation, weather, directory, and enterprise-service content is consistent with the stated Mapion business model and contains no phishing, impersonation, deceptive financial, or malware indicators. The domain also demonstrates long-running, continuous provenance, which materially supports the conclusion that this is an established site rather than a newly created impersonation. External reputation checks returned no malicious or suspicious findings, and no matching broker warning was identified.
- Homepage: Provides detailed map search, route search, weather, postcode, telephone-directory, and local-business functionality, with no detected phishing or impersonation indicators.
- Domain registration: Registered 1996-11-14; approximately 29.76 years old.
- Web archive: 5,000 snapshots spanning 1997–2026, covering 30 years with a maximum recorded gap of 1 year.
- External reputation screening: No malicious or suspicious detections and no confirmed abuse reports were recorded.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site appears to operate as an informational and local-search platform rather than a service presenting regulated financial products. The homepage identifies Mapion services and business offerings, but the supplied content does not present a regulatory license claim or license number; this is a disclosure point for ordinary business verification, not evidence of fraud. The real-world operator identity remains independently unverified, so the site’s apparent legitimacy should not be treated as proof of a particular corporate affiliation. Its transport certificate provides a concrete organizational signal, but certificate subject information alone does not establish legal ownership.
- Homepage: Describes mapping, local directory, advertising, and enterprise map-service activities rather than a regulated financial offering.
- Homepage disclosure review: No regulatory license claim or license number was presented in the supplied site content.
- Transport encryption: Valid OV TLS certificate issued by GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 to ONE COMPATH CO., LTD., valid through 2026-11-12.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, independently confirm the operating entity through the site’s official corporate, privacy, and terms materials and, where relevant, corroborate it through an authoritative corporate registry. For any paid listing, enterprise service, or other commercial transaction, confirm the applicable contracting party, pricing, cancellation and return terms, and payment protections using independently sourced contact channels.
- Homepage: Provides links or references to inquiries, enterprise services, paid listings, and related offerings that should be matched to the applicable contracting terms.
- Service and account areas: The homepage presents registration and login functions, making confirmation of the applicable privacy and account terms appropriate before credential submission.
- Commercial-service descriptions: Enterprise and advertising offerings create a need to confirm the contracting entity and payment-protection arrangements before financial commitment.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture with no observed scam or impersonation contradiction. The classification is strong, but independent verification of the real-world operator remains incomplete; legitimacy is therefore apparent and evidence-consistent rather than proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is served through Amazon Web Services infrastructure, specifically AS16509, with AWS CDN/WAF protection. Two observed addresses were identified as CDN edge addresses, while the origin server was not exposed in the observed resolution; this reduces direct origin exposure and is a mitigating infrastructure characteristic, not independent proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational use is proportionate to the assessed posture; credentials or payments should follow the ordinary independent checks of operator identity, commercial terms, and payment protections described above.
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 mapion.co.jp.
- The request stayed on mapion.co.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 earliest public archive of this site is from 1997-03-30. 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 | 52.196.253.26 |
| Name servers | ns-1142.awsdns-14.org, ns-98.awsdns-12.com, ns-2031.awsdns-61.co.uk, ns-836.awsdns-40.net |
| SSL issuer | GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-12 |
| Domain age | 29.76 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 1997-03-30 |
| 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 mapion.co.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.