Verdict
markdesollaprice.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 | Official personal site for Mark de Solla Price: contains About, Blog, Contact, Gallery and sample content (Lorem Ipsum placeholders). Cookie consent UI present. No payment forms or investment claims. |
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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 | 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 | 19 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2011Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | 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 2011.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website presents itself as the official personal website of Mark de Solla Price, with an artist portfolio, blog, gallery, contact area, and sample editorial content hosted on WordPress. Its apparent purpose is informational and personal rather than commercial, financial, or transactional.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is consistent with a personal portfolio and does not present login forms, payment collection, investment solicitations, or other obvious fraud mechanics. However, this benign presentation is materially outweighed by external threat detections: the domain is blacklisted by two external sources, and two evaluated detections classify it as malicious. No on-page brand impersonation or conflicting legal identity was observed, so the principal concern is reputational and threat-detection evidence rather than a demonstrated impersonation mechanism. The combination warrants treating credential submission, financial activity, downloads, and other sensitive interaction as unsafe until the external detections are independently resolved.
- The homepage identifies the site as “Mark de Solla Price (Official)” and presents About, Blog, Contact, and Gallery sections rather than financial or payment functionality.
- The homepage contains no login form, sensitive form, external password destination, wallet connection, or hidden form.
- The domain was registered on 2007-08-11 and is approximately 19.04 years old.
- Two external blacklist sources reported the domain, while two evaluated detections classified it as malicious.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available pages describe an informational personal or artist portfolio, and no regulated financial service, investment offer, or licensing claim is presented. The site’s apparent identity is therefore not independently verified as a real-world person or operator on the supplied evidence, and the available disclosure is insufficient to establish formal accountability. This is distinct from the external blacklist findings, which remain a security and reputation concern rather than a legal or licensing determination. A third-party broker-reputation dataset produced no match, which provides limited contextual reassurance but does not establish regulatory status.
- The homepage links to About, Blog, Contact, and Gallery pages and uses WordPress with the PopularFX theme.
- The published content includes Lorem Ipsum placeholders and lacks a substantive formal business or legal disclosure in the supplied page material.
- The site does not claim a license, license number, or licensing authority.
- The domain registrar is Name.com, Inc.; the registration expires on 2027-08-11.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an institution should independently confirm that the domain is the intended official channel for the named individual through an offline or previously established contact route. The reported blacklist detections should be investigated with the relevant security providers to determine whether they reflect current malicious content, historical abuse, shared infrastructure, or an erroneous classification. If the site is being considered for any commercial engagement, the counterparty’s legal identity, authority to act, and applicable registration status should be confirmed through authoritative records rather than relying on the site’s self-description.
- The site’s identity-verification status is unverified, with no independent identity signals supplied.
- The homepage’s content is incomplete in places, including repeated placeholder text, limiting confidence in the site’s stated purpose and ownership.
- The external reputation assessment evaluated the domain across the available providers and recorded no abuse reports from the hosting-IP abuse source.
- The site’s page behavior showed two successful runs with no external network activity, no DOM mutations, and no suspicious inline scripts.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated sensitive-interaction risk. The apparently benign portfolio presentation does not sufficiently offset the confirmed external reputation contradictions, and the available evidence does not independently establish the operator’s real-world identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is served through CDN/WAF edge infrastructure, with the observed edge address on AS36351, SOFTLAYER - IBM Cloud, US; the origin server was not observable in this analysis. This architecture provides a mitigating layer against direct origin exposure, but it does not validate the site’s legitimacy or offset the external reputation findings. The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YR2, which is valid through 2026-10-26.
- Observed edge IP: 169.44.182.40.
- Hosted on AS36351, SOFTLAYER - IBM Cloud, US.
- CDN/WAF protection is present; likely origin-IP candidates observed: 0.
- TLS certificate issuer: YR2; validation level: DV; valid to 2026-10-26T21:05:30+00:00.
Closing Assessment
Sensitive actions should be deferred unless the domain’s official status and the external detections are resolved through independent, authoritative channels; read-only viewing is the proportionate interim use.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 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 | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 25% |
- 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 markdesollaprice.com.
- The request stayed on markdesollaprice.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Name.com, Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by name.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-08-11. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-02-08. Clear
- It is hosted on SOFTLAYER, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Name.com, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | SOFTLAYER - IBM Cloud, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 169.44.182.40 |
| Name servers | NS1STV.NAME.COM, NS2KQZ.NAME.COM, NS3JMT.NAME.COM, NS4FPY.NAME.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-26 |
| Domain age | 19.04 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-11 |
| Archive first seen | 2011-02-08 |
| 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 markdesollaprice.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.