Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
opnesea.com shows high-risk / scam indicators.
Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: Not recorded
- 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 | 12 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 0 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 3 months oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Web archive | Archived since 20239 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: less than 1 year (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2023.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
The website at opnesea.com presents a bare "404 – Page Not Found" error page with only a few words of text at its root. It shows no products, branding, navigation or services. Its apparent purpose cannot be determined from the content. The domain name closely resembles a well-known NFT marketplace brand. The site is a very recently registered domain that has been the subject of serious third-party security detections.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Contradictory signals are present, and they point to an elevated-risk, clearly cautionary posture. Multiple independent threat-intelligence detections flag the domain as malicious, and a confirmed blacklist condition applies. Two major security vendors are among the flagging sources. The detection volume is high enough to trigger an automatic override of the site's trust rating, so no positive infrastructure signal can offset it. The domain label is a one-character variation of a prominent NFT marketplace name, a classic typosquatting pattern commonly used to harvest wallet credentials and signing approvals. The sensors did not confirm a specific impersonation or phishing page, and the homepage served only an error page. The reputational detections nonetheless stand on their own, and the lookalike naming pattern is consistent with them. Behavioral testing observed no outbound requests, wallet-connection attempts, clipboard manipulation, hidden forms or cloaking. This shows only that the captured page was inert. It does not show that the domain is benign, because a placeholder or error page can be swapped for malicious content quickly. No conflicting legal entities were found.
- Homepage: returned a "404 – Page Not Found" response with a very small amount of text and no identifiable products, brand statements or contact details.
- Domain registration: registered in July 2026 (~0.27 years, roughly 100 days old) through Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu, with the registrant organization listed as "money team" and the owner details redacted.
- Web archive: 9 snapshots spanning 2023–2026 (4 years tracked) with a two-year gap, so earlier captures predate the current registration. This pattern is consistent with a lapsed and later re-registered name.
- Reputation: 12 malicious and 2 suspicious detections from external security engines, including two top-tier vendors. The detections also drive the confirmed blacklist condition.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage captured was an error page, so the site presents no legal, terms, privacy, licensing or company-identity disclosures. The site's real-world operator therefore cannot be linked to any named legal entity or regulator. This is a verification gap and not, on its own, evidence of wrongdoing. Here it compounds the confirmed security detections. No third-party broker or regulatory-database record was matched to the domain, and no regulatory standing can be inferred. The TLS certificate does not alter this. A basic domain-validated certificate confirms only control of the domain and says nothing about the operator.
- Homepage: no company name, registration number, license reference or legal pages were present.
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by WE1 (DV), valid to 2026-12-14, with about 49 days remaining. Validation covers domain control only.
- Third-party registries: no broker or regulatory-database match was found for the domain.
What to Verify Next
Any proposed interaction with this domain should first be checked against the genuine marketplace's officially published address, reached through a saved bookmark or an independently confirmed source and not through a link, message or advertisement. Anyone who has already visited the site and connected a wallet, signed a message or entered credentials should treat that session as potentially compromised. They should review and revoke token approvals and consider moving assets to a fresh wallet. Organizations should review whether the domain appears in their email, chat or web-proxy logs and should block it pending clean re-evaluation. The official support or contact channels of the genuine service should be confirmed through an independent route. Before any later reassessment, the domain's content should be re-examined once it serves a real page.
- Homepage: the present absence of any real content means no legitimate service can currently be confirmed at this address.
- Reputation findings: the detections are active now, so re-checking the domain's status after remediation or a content change is warranted.
- Domain registration: registration in 2026, under redacted owner details, offers no established track record to rely on.
Summary Verdict
The available evidence supports an elevated-risk, clearly cautionary posture. Confirmed adverse security detections, a lookalike domain name and a very short registration history converge against any presumption of legitimacy. The operator's real-world identity remains unestablished. The inert error page and the clean behavioral run do not outweigh the reputational findings.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site sits behind Cloudflare's CDN and WAF, hosted on AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US). All four observed addresses are Cloudflare edge servers, and the origin server was not visible. Protective infrastructure of this kind is a mitigating factor only. It does not establish legitimacy, and it cannot offset the confirmed reputational findings. Edge-only visibility also prevents independent hosting verification and allows content to be changed quickly behind the same address.
- Hosting: served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US) via 4 edge IP addresses, with no origin candidates observed.
- Network behavior: DNS records showed low TTL values typical of CDN delivery, and abuse-reporting history for the edge address was clean.
Closing Assessment
The site should be treated as unsafe for logins, credential entry, wallet connections, signing requests and any financial activity. At most, it can be viewed passively and without interaction. Where it has been reached through a message or advertisement, that source should be reported and the domain blocked.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-26 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by external reputation, registration and ownership.
01 External reputation
- An external threat feed lists this domain: either Google Safe Browsing marked it malicious, or a significant number of malware engines flagged it.External reputation
rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_CRITICAL
02 Registration and ownership
- The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN - Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE
Identity verification
| Status | UNKNOWN |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 50/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 15% |
- AI page analysis unavailable (page captured; identity not AI-verified)
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 opnesea.com.
- The request stayed on opnesea.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-07-17. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2023-04-02. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3033::ac43:a4f9 |
| Name servers | ALEXA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, URIAH.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM |
| CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) |
| Resolved IP addresses | 4 |
| Edge IP addresses | 4 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-14 |
| Domain age | 0.27 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-07-17 |
| Archive first seen | 2023-04-02 |
| Archive snapshots | 9 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 12 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about opnesea.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.