Verdict
moodle.org 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 | Moodle.org community hub with forums, documentation, marketplace information, downloads, and community announcements for the open-source Moodle LMS. Provides links to Moodle.com services and certified 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 | 24 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | 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).
- 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
Moodle.org is an open-source community hub for the Moodle learning-management ecosystem, presenting forums, documentation, downloads, development resources, marketplace information, demonstrations, translations, and community announcements; its apparent purpose is to support Moodle users, developers, educators, and service partners.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent community and documentation service rather than a deceptive transactional proposition, and the supplied page analysis found no phishing, brand-impersonation, credential-harvesting, malware, or other fraud indicators. The site's long registration history and clean external reputation are consistent with an established website, although the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
- Homepage: Displays Moodle forums, documentation, downloads, development resources, marketplace information, and community announcements, with no detected fraud indicators.
- Domain registration: Registered 2002-04-02 (~24.38 years old); registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC.
- External reputation checks: 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no blacklist or phishing match were recorded.
- Homepage authority: The site's page-authority signal is assessed as high.
Regulatory Verification Notes
Moodle.org appears to operate as an informational and open-source community platform, while the wider Moodle ecosystem includes Moodle.com services, a paid plugins marketplace, certified service providers, and training and hosting partnerships. The supplied content does not independently verify the legal entity operating the site, and no financial or other regulatory licence claim or number is apparent; this is a transparency point for any paid service, not evidence of a scam. Available evidence nevertheless supports an apparently legitimate, mature website with a consistent business and community model.
- Homepage: Links visitors to Moodle LMS and Moodle Workplace information, Moodle.com services, the Moodle Marketplace, certified service providers, downloads, and community resources.
- Hosting telemetry: Served from AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- Transport security: TLS certificate issued by WE1, validation level DV, valid to 2026-10-06T11:14:51+00:00.
- Traffic footprint: Tranco rank 1940; the domain is within the top 1 million.
What to Verify Next
Before a paid engagement, the prospective customer should independently match the legal entity and commercial provider named in the relevant terms, service, or partner documentation against an applicable corporate or professional registry. Payment-related decisions should also include confirmation of return, refund, service-delivery, and payment-protection terms, while credential use should be initiated only through the expected official navigation and authentication destination.
- Legal and service documentation: Confirm the contracting entity and applicable service terms before entering a commercial relationship.
- Marketplace or partner transaction: Confirm the individual provider's identity, refund arrangements, and payment-protection options independently.
- Account access: Confirm that the login destination is reached through the site's expected navigation and uses the intended Moodle service.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. The absence of observed contradictions supports normal informational use, while independent confirmation of the real-world operator remains appropriate for sensitive commercial or credential-related interactions.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Cloudflare's CDN and WAF. All four observed addresses are Cloudflare edge servers on AS13335, with no origin-server address identified in the infrastructure analysis; this reduces direct exposure of the underlying host but is a mitigating control rather than proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Routine browsing is proportionate to the evidence, while account or payment activity should follow ordinary independent checks of merchant identity, service terms, return or refund arrangements, and payment protections.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-13 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 moodle.org.
- The request stayed on moodle.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-04-02. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:10::ac42:af53 |
| Name servers | coco.ns.cloudflare.com, ken.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-06 |
| Domain age | 24.38 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-04-02 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| 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 moodle.org 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.