---
title: "Is openpetition.de Legit? Trust Score 100/100"
source: TrustSniffer
type: Website trust & fraud report
subject: "openpetition.de"
verdict: "High Trust"
title: "Is openpetition.de Legit? Trust Score 100/100"
trust_score: 100
classification_confidence: 55
canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/openpetition.de
assessed: 2026-08-11
---

# Is openpetition.de legit? TrustSniffer's high-trust assessment: 100/100

## Verdict


**Verdict: High Trust, trust score 100/100.** openpetition.de appears legitimate.

Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.

Labels: Not Scam, Safe for Login, Low Risk

Assessed 2026-08-11 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 55%.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| What this site appears to be | openPetition landing page showing multilingual navigation, counts and lists of current and successful petitions, mission statement, donation CTA and newsletter subscription. Content focuses on civic participation and petition management. |

## 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.

| Check | Result | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Malware engines | None flagged it (VirusTotal) | Clear |
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reports (AbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count) | Noted |
| Domain age | Not available (No registration record was returned) | Noted |
| Web archive | Never archived (No public history of this site) | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by YR1) | Noted |

## The page as captured


No screenshot is retained for this report.

## Key findings


- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- 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

openPetition is an online civic-engagement platform that enables visitors to create, discover, promote, and sign petitions, with multilingual navigation, petition-success information, donation functionality, and newsletter subscription supporting its public-participation model.


### Scam/Impersonation Risk

No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent civic-petition purpose, with links for starting petitions, viewing current and successful petitions, learning about the mission, obtaining help, donating, and subscribing. The available technical and behavioral evidence also shows no detected phishing, brand-impersonation, hidden-form, wallet, cloaking, or suspicious-script indicators. The site therefore presents as an apparently legitimate, low-risk platform, although the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified. Evidence:

- The homepage describes petition creation, promotion, and citizen participation and contains no reported fraud indicators.
- Behavioral testing recorded two successful runs, zero external network activity, zero hidden forms, zero wallet-provider or wallet-drainer activity, and no cloaking.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections; the site had a traffic rank of 27257 and was within the top 1 million websites.

### Regulatory Verification Notes

The site's apparent activity is civic petition management supported by donations and possible petitioner services, rather than investment, trading, custodial, or other clearly regulated financial activity. No licensing claim or regulatory authority is presented in the supplied content, so licensing is not a central basis for this assessment; the principal verification limitation is that the available evidence does not independently establish the legal entity operating the service. A separate broker-reputation dataset produced no match, which is contextual support rather than a licensing or regulatory determination. Evidence:

- The homepage and navigation identify the service as a petition and civic-participation platform rather than a financial-services provider.
- The site's hosting infrastructure is AS24940, HETZNER-AS – Hetzner Online GmbH, DE.
- The site's TLS certificate is issued by YR1, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-10-26T00:39:09+00:00.

### What to Verify Next

Before credential or payment interactions, an organization should independently confirm the operating entity through the site's About and Help materials and, where appropriate, through an offline or independently sourced contact route. For donations or any paid service, the recipient, payment processor, refund or cancellation terms, and applicable consumer-payment protections should be confirmed before funds are committed. Evidence:

- The primary navigation exposes dedicated About us and Help pages for identity and service enquiries.
- The site provides separate registration, login, donation, and newsletter-related functions, creating distinct points for review before interaction.
- The homepage offers current and successful petition listings that can be checked for consistency with the stated civic-participation purpose.

### Summary Verdict

Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. The classification is strong for normal site use, while independent operator identity verification remains incomplete.


### Infrastructure Integrity

The site is protected by a CDN/WAF arrangement, with observed edge addresses and no origin candidates identified in this analysis. The infrastructure resolves through AS24940 and is hosted by HETZNER-AS – Hetzner Online GmbH, DE; this protective architecture is a mitigating security signal, not proof of operator legitimacy.


### Closing Assessment

Ordinary use is proportionate, subject to standard independent checks of the service operator and payment terms before submitting credentials or making donations.


_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


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| 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 openpetition.de.

- The request stayed on openpetition.de. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear)
- DNS for this domain is served by first-ns.de, across 3 name servers. (Noted)
- It is hosted on HETZNER-AS, from a server in DE. (Noted)

## Domain intelligence


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Registrar | Not available |
| Hosting | HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 2a01:4f8:2200:4344::2 |
| Name servers | ns1.first-ns.de, robotns2.second-ns.de, robotns3.second-ns.com |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-26 |
| Domain age | Not available (no registration date was returned) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| 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 openpetition.de 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.

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*Source: [TrustSniffer](https://trustsniffer.com/report/openpetition.de) — independent automated trust & fraud analysis. Cite as https://trustsniffer.com/report/openpetition.de · assessed 2026-08-11.*