Verdict
miracleonmountshasta.com 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 | Promotional website for the book 'My Miracle on Mount Shasta' by Blaine W. Carman. Includes book description, author bio, reviews, retailer links (Amazon, Barnes & Noble), contact info and a newsletter signup. |
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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 | 15 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2013Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2013.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This is an author and book-promotion website for Blaine W. Carman’s *My Miracle on Mount Shasta – The Nine Questions that Answer a Life*. It presents the book’s premise, the author’s biography, reviews, retailer links, newsletter signup, and contact options, while also promoting speaking, counseling, and coaching services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed, including no phishing, impersonation, confirmed blacklist, or malicious-content indicators. The site’s stated business model is consistent with an author landing page: it promotes a book, directs visitors to Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and describes related professional services. The homepage and contact flow do not present a login form, credential-collection mechanism, wallet connection, or other high-risk interaction. 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 Blaine W. Carman and presents the book’s title, subject matter, author biography, reviews, and retailer links.
- The contact and newsletter functions expose one non-sensitive signup form; technical testing found no hidden forms, password forms, external posts, wallet activity, or suspicious scripts.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious detections, zero suspicious detections, and zero abuse reports in the supplied results; coverage was partial.
- Domain registration continuity: registered 2011-12-15; age 14.69 years; registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site is primarily a book and professional-services website rather than a financial platform or investment offering. Its author biography states that Blaine W. Carman is a California-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, but the supplied pages do not provide a license number or an independently verifiable registry reference. That is a transparency item for ordinary professional-service verification, not evidence of a scam. The available third-party context contains no matching broker signal, and the site’s identity presentation is coherent across its homepage and author page, while independent operator attribution remains incomplete.
- The About Author page describes the author as an MA, LMFT, counselor, speaker, and facilitator, including a stated California license claim.
- The Explore Book and homepage pages describe book sales and personal-development content rather than regulated financial products.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YR2, valid to 2026-10-30.
- The hosting service is AS31898, operated by ORACLE-BMC-31898 — Oracle Corporation, US.
What to Verify Next
Before engaging in paid counseling, coaching, speaking, or other professional services, independently confirm the stated California professional license through the relevant official registry. For a purchase, confirm that retailer links resolve to the intended retailer pages and review the applicable returns and payment-protection terms. Contact details and service arrangements should be confirmed through an independently sourced official channel before transferring funds or disclosing sensitive personal information.
- The About Author page contains the professional-license claim requiring registry confirmation.
- The homepage and Explore Book page direct prospective purchasers to Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
- The Contact page provides the stated channels for service inquiries and should be checked against an independent source.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with evidence consistent with an established, apparently legitimate author and book website. No scam or impersonation contradiction was identified, but the available evidence does not independently prove the real-world operator’s identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves through Oracle Corporation’s AS31898 infrastructure in the United States. No CDN or WAF was identified, and no separate origin candidates were observed; this is a conventional resolved-hosting posture that neither creates a material concern nor independently proves legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and ordinary book-purchase consideration are proportionate, while credential or payment interactions should follow the independent identity, service, return-policy, and payment-protection checks described above.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 76/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 38% |
- Trusted social count=2
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 miracleonmountshasta.com.
- The request stayed on miracleonmountshasta.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by bluehost.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-12-15. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-08-30. Clear
- It is hosted on ORACLE-BMC-31898, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | ORACLE-BMC-31898 - Oracle Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 162.241.216.104 |
| Name servers | NS1.BLUEHOST.COM, NS2.BLUEHOST.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-30 |
| Domain age | 14.69 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-12-15 |
| Archive first seen | 2013-08-30 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| 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 miracleonmountshasta.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.