Verdict
myhost.nz 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 | MyHost New Zealand — commercial web hosting and domain registration site offering shared, VPS and dedicated hosting, website builder, reseller plans, pricing and customer testimonials. Contact phone and physical address provided. |
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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 | 12 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20145000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | 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 2014.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
MyHost New Zealand is a commercial web-hosting and domain-registration website offering shared, WordPress, reseller, VPS, dedicated-server, colocation, website-builder, and managed-services plans, supported by published pricing, customer support, domain-search tools, and account access for recurring hosting and domain services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent hosting-provider business model, with named service categories, subscription pricing, domain registration, customer testimonials, a telephone contact, and a physical address. The available reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious detections, no phishing or impersonation indicators, and no reported blacklist hit. The domain’s sustained historical continuity and the absence of repurposing indicators further support an established-site interpretation rather than a transient scam operation. The operator’s real-world identity remains independently unverified, so the legitimacy assessment is evidence-consistent rather than proven.
- Homepage: identifies MyHost New Zealand as a hosting and domain provider and presents shared, reseller, VPS, dedicated-server, and related services with recurring plan pricing.
- Homepage and Contact page: publish customer-support routes, a telephone number, and a physical address.
- Domain history: Registered 2014-10-01 (~11.87 years old); 5,000 archive snapshots spanning 2014-12-23 to 2025-12-28 across 12 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site appears to operate as a commercial technology and hosting provider rather than a business presenting itself as a regulated financial service. The supplied pages do not present a regulatory license or registration number; for this business model, that is a transparency and verification point, not evidence of fraud. The site provides customer-facing service information and contact routes, while independent confirmation of the contracting legal entity is not available in the supplied evidence. A third-party broker-data check produced no match, which is contextual reputational support only and not a licensing determination.
- About and homepage content: describes hosting, domain registration, server, managed-service, reseller, and affiliate offerings without a stated regulatory license number.
- Homepage: provides service pricing, support methods, renewal-oriented domain services, and customer-facing ordering functionality.
- Site transport: TLS certificate issued by YE2, validation level DV, valid to 2026-10-08.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interaction, the prospective customer should confirm the contracting entity shown in the site’s terms, billing, and account documents against an independent New Zealand business registry or equivalent official source. The customer should also review cancellation, renewal, refund, service-level, data-retention, and acceptable-use provisions, and confirm that the payment method provides appropriate dispute and chargeback protection. Contact details should be validated through an independent route before a material purchase or account-recovery request.
- Terms and billing pages: should identify the contracting entity, renewal mechanics, cancellation rights, refund conditions, and applicable governing terms.
- Order and checkout pages: should be checked for the merchant descriptor, tax treatment, payment processor, and transaction-security controls.
- Contact and support pages: provide the routes that can be independently validated before account or billing changes.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture for its stated hosting and domain-services purpose. No scam, phishing, impersonation, or identity-conflict indicators were observed, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is served from AS45179 (SITEHOST-AS-AP — SiteHost New Zealand, NZ) and resolves to two likely origin addresses, with no CDN or WAF vendor detected. Direct hosting is an architectural characteristic rather than a legitimacy finding; the identified hosting environment and valid TLS provide a coherent technical foundation for ordinary website operation.
- Hosting infrastructure: Served from AS45179, SITEHOST-AS-AP — SiteHost New Zealand, NZ; country NZ; registry APNIC.
- Network resolution: 2 unique IP addresses, 0 edge IP addresses, and 2 likely origin IP addresses; CDN not detected.
- Transport encryption: DV TLS certificate issued by YE2, valid through 2026-10-08.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and standard service evaluation are proportionate to the high-trust assessment, while account creation or payment should follow the ordinary independent merchant-identity, contract, and payment-protection checks 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 myhost.nz.
- The request stayed on myhost.nz. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Sitetech Solutions Ltd T/A SiteName. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by co.nz, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2014-12-23. Clear
- It is hosted on SITEHOST-AS-AP, from a server in NZ. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Sitetech Solutions Ltd T/A SiteName |
|---|---|
| Hosting | SITEHOST-AS-AP - SiteHost New Zealand, NZ |
| Country | NZ |
| Server IP | 2403:7000:4000:100::6 |
| Name servers | ns1.sitehost.co.nz, ns2.sitehost.co.nz, ns3.sitehost.co.nz, ns4.sitehost.co.nz |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-08 |
| Domain age | 11.87 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2014-12-23 |
| 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 myhost.nz 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.