Verdict
nirgua.com.ve 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 | Official-looking municipal website for Nirgua (Venezuela) offering history, news, tourism info, a commercial directory and educational platform. Content appears informational and community-focused with no financial solicitations or credential-harvesting elements. |
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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% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 14 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 9.3 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2018Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2018.
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is an official-looking municipal portal for Nirgua, Venezuela, presenting local history, news, tourism information, a commercial directory, educational courses, and civic or community services. Its apparent purpose is public information and local-commerce promotion rather than direct financial solicitation or credential collection.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: the available evidence shows no phishing, impersonation, malicious-content, blacklist, or credential-harvesting indicators. The homepage presents coherent municipal content, including Nirgua’s history, attractions, community information, and a stated “Plan Piloto” demonstration-service context. A third-party IP-level abuse signal exists, but it is attributed to shared data-center infrastructure rather than specifically to the website and is therefore not treated as evidence of site-level abuse. The domain’s established continuity and consistent municipal subject matter further support an evidence-consistent provenance assessment, although the real-world operator remains independently unverified.
- The homepage is titled “Nirgua.com.ve | El Portal del Municipio” and contains municipal history, tourism, community, and local-service content.
- The site’s behavioral analysis recorded no login form, hidden sensitive form, external password form, wallet connection, clipboard manipulation, or suspicious inline script.
- The domain age is recorded as 9.31 years; archival coverage is recorded from 2018 through 2026, spanning 9 years with 74 snapshots.
- Fourteen abuse reports concern IP address 66.45.23.70 and are attributed to shared OrangeHost infrastructure with a confidence score of 0.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s apparent public-service role is consistent with a municipal information portal, and no financial product, investment solicitation, or regulated-service claim was identified. The supplied page material does not independently establish the legal entity operating the domain, and no license or registration number is claimed for a regulated activity; this is a verification and disclosure point, not evidence of a scam. The identity assessment should therefore remain qualified: the site appears legitimate and established on the available evidence, but its connection to a specific real-world municipal authority is not proven. The recorded registrar is NIC-VE.
- The homepage describes the service as a municipal portal and presents the municipality of Nirgua as its subject.
- The available page content identifies no financial solicitation, regulated investment service, or licensing claim.
- The site is served on AS19853 by ORANGEHOST - OrangeHost, US.
- The transport certificate is issued by YR1 at DV validation level and is valid until 2026-11-17 23:22:18 UTC.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions arising from the directory, sales, or course functions, independently confirm the responsible municipal entity through an official, offline or independently sourced government channel. Confirm the applicable service terms, refund or cancellation arrangements, and payment-protection options for any commercial transaction. Contact details should likewise be validated through an independently obtained municipal source rather than relying solely on the website.
- The homepage navigation exposes “Contacto,” “Ventas,” and “Cursos,” indicating that some services may lead beyond purely informational browsing.
- The stated business model is community-focused, with local commerce promotion and educational or civic services rather than direct financial monetization.
- The available evidence records no sensitive forms on the homepage, so any later credential or payment workflow should be assessed separately.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, and the evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate municipal website. No scam or impersonation contradiction was identified. The principal qualification is that the real-world operator identity has not been independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to one likely origin address on OrangeHost in the United States, with no CDN or WAF detected. This straightforward hosting arrangement does not itself indicate malicious activity, but it provides less intermediary shielding than a CDN-based deployment.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary informational use is proportionate to the assessed posture; credential or payment interactions should follow the independent identity, terms, and payment-protection checks described above.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 14 reports on hosting IP 66.45.23.70 (OrangeHost, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
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 nirgua.com.ve.
- The request stayed on nirgua.com.ve. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under NIC-VE. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2018-03-19. Clear
- It is hosted on ORANGEHOST, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | NIC-VE |
|---|---|
| Hosting | ORANGEHOST - OrangeHost, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 66.45.23.70 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-17 |
| Domain age | 9.31 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2018-03-19 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 14 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about nirgua.com.ve 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.