Verdict
mchost.ru 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 | Commercial Russian-language hosting provider site (Makhost) offering shared hosting, CMS-optimized plans, VPS/VDS, dedicated servers, domain registration, and associated services with pricing, promotions and 24/7 support information. |
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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 |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GlobalSign GCC R6 AlphaSSL CA 2025 | Noted |
| Hosted by | EUROBYTEServer in RU | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is Makhost, a Russian-language commercial hosting provider presenting shared and premium hosting, CMS-optimized plans, VPS/VDS and dedicated servers, domain registration, software licensing, promotions, partner services, and customer support. Its apparent business model is subscription-based and service-oriented, with paid infrastructure and related hosting add-ons offered to individuals and organizations.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site presents a coherent hosting-services business model, and the available external reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious detections, no phishing or impersonation indicators, and no confirmed blacklist signal. Dynamic testing did identify external requests, non-whitelisted traffic, and substantial document changes after interaction; however, the same testing found no hidden forms, external password forms, wallet activity, clipboard manipulation, or cloaking. These behaviors are therefore treated as website-implementation noise rather than evidence of deceptive activity. The domain’s long registration continuity and established traffic footprint further support an evidence-consistent, established-site assessment, while the real-world operator remains independently unverified.
- Registration record: created 2004-01-29; age 22.56 years; registrar MAXNAME-RU.
- Homepage behavioral testing recorded 11 external XHR requests, 5 non-whitelisted XHR requests, 3 external POST requests, and 1 non-whitelisted POST request; hidden forms and password-exfiltration forms were not detected.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections; the domain’s traffic rank was 16415 and it was within the top 1,000,000 sites.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage clearly describes paid hosting, VPS/VDS, dedicated servers, domain registration, software licensing, pricing, promotions, and support arrangements. No licensing claim or license number is evidenced in the supplied content; for a commercial hosting provider, this is a transparency item requiring confirmation rather than an indication of scam activity. The available evidence is consistent with an established commercial service, but it does not independently connect the website to a verified real-world legal operator. No broker-reputation match was identified, and the site’s transport security uses a known certificate issuer.
- Homepage content identifies the service category as commercial hosting and provides service descriptions, pricing, promotions, and support information.
- TLS certificate: GlobalSign GCC R6 AlphaSSL CA 2025, domain-validated (DV), valid to 2026-11-20.
- The supplied page material contains no evidenced license claim or license number.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, independently confirm the legal entity shown in the site’s terms, billing records, and customer documentation, and compare it with the relevant corporate registry. Review cancellation, refund, service-level, data-retention, and abuse-handling terms, then confirm that the intended payment method provides appropriate dispute and recovery protections. Official support and contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route before resolving account or billing issues.
- Legal-entity verification should be performed against the operator information presented in the site’s terms and billing materials.
- Commercial-service terms should be checked for refund, cancellation, and service-level provisions before purchasing a plan.
- Payment-protection review is appropriate because the site sells recurring and add-on services.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture for ordinary use. The assessment does not, however, independently prove the identity of the real-world operator, so legitimacy should be understood as evidence-consistent rather than conclusively verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to one visible origin address, 95.142.36.6, hosted by EUROBYTE - EuroByte LLC, RU on AS210079 in Russia; no CDN or WAF was detected. This direct-hosting arrangement provides less intermediary shielding than a CDN-fronted deployment, but it is an infrastructure characteristic and not evidence of malicious activity.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary engagement is proportionate to the current assessment, subject to the independent entity, terms, contact-channel, and payment-protection checks above before sensitive or financially consequential interactions.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-17 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 mchost.ru.
- The request stayed on mchost.ru. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under MAXNAME-RU. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by 23.52, 2a03:c980:beef:6002:46:254:23:52, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-01-29. Noted
- It is hosted on EUROBYTE, from a server in RU. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | MAXNAME-RU |
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| Hosting | EUROBYTE - EuroByte LLC, RU |
| Country | RU |
| Server IP | 95.142.36.6 |
| Name servers | d1.mchost.ru. 46.254.23.52, 2a03:c980:beef:6002:46:254:23:52, d2.mchost.ru. 91.121.54.18, 2001:41d0:1008:2c3b::1 |
| SSL issuer | GlobalSign GCC R6 AlphaSSL CA 2025 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-20 |
| Domain age | 22.56 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-01-29 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | Not available |
| 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 mchost.ru 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.