Verdict
pacificpools.com.au 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 | Pacific Pools — an established Sydney-based pool construction and renovation business offering concrete inground pools, renovations, testimonials, membership with SPASA, contact form and phone for quotes. |
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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, 1 report; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | Not availableNo registration record was returned | Noted |
| Web archive | Archived since 2002Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Public web-archive history exists since 2002.
- 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.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
Pacific Pools is a Sydney-based local-service website for concrete inground pool construction, pool renovation, resurfacing, and related project enquiries across Greater Sydney, including the Blue Mountains, Macarthur, and Southern Highlands. It presents testimonials, project information, service-area coverage, and a quote-request pathway supported by a contact form and telephone enquiries.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No phishing, impersonation, blacklist, or conflicting-identity indicators were observed, and the site’s content is consistent with a conventional local construction-services lead-generation model. The reviewed homepage contains a standard contact form rather than a login, payment, password, or wallet-interaction flow. Two suspicious inline scripts and non-whitelisted external network activity were observed, but there was no cloaking, hidden form, wallet activity, credential collection, or other high-risk abuse pattern. One abuse report relates to a shared Amazon delivery IP, carries zero confidence, and is specifically attributed to shared infrastructure rather than to Pacific Pools. The overall evidence therefore supports an apparently legitimate, low-suspicion site while preserving the fact that the real-world operator has not been independently verified.
- Homepage: presents pool construction and renovation services, service areas, testimonials, and a quote-request contact form.
- Homepage behavior: no login form, hidden form, password-external form, wallet connection, wallet-sensitive activity, or cloaking was detected.
- Hosting-related reputation observation: one report was associated with shared Amazon infrastructure at 35.172.94.1; the attribution was discounted because it applied to the shared provider IP rather than being linked specifically to the website.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The About content states that Pacific Pools is a member of the Australian Swimming Pool and Spa Alliance, is fully licensed, and meets governing-body insurance requirements. These are on-site representations rather than independently verified regulatory findings; the reviewed material does not provide a license number or independently confirm the relevant licensing authority. The available registration record names Melbourne IT as registrar and Pacific Pools Pty Ltd as owner, which is consistent with the site’s displayed business name but does not by itself verify the operating entity. External reputation coverage produced no malicious or phishing finding, and no matching third-party broker profile was identified. This is a transparency and verification matter, not evidence of a scam.
- About page: states SPASA membership, full licensing, and compliance with governing-body insurance requirements.
- Registration record: registrar listed as Melbourne IT; owner listed as Pacific Pools Pty Ltd.
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by YR1, validation level DV, valid to 2026-10-12T06:34:26+00:00.
- Hosting telemetry: served from AS14618, Amazon Technologies Inc. / AMAZON-AES, US.
What to Verify Next
Before entering into a construction contract or making a deposit, independently confirm the claimed licensing and insurance status with the relevant Australian or New South Wales authorities and confirm SPASA membership through SPASA’s own records. The contracting party’s legal name should be matched against the quote, contract, invoice, and payment account, with written warranty, cancellation, dispute, and project-completion terms retained. Payment should use a method offering appropriate protection for construction services, and contact details should be confirmed through an independently sourced channel.
- About page: contains the licensing, insurance, and professional-membership representations requiring independent confirmation.
- Contact page: provides the business telephone and enquiry pathway for cross-checking against independently sourced details.
- Service and project pages: provide the scope of work and service-area context that should correspond with any quotation or contract.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website presenting a low-risk local-services business. No scam or impersonation contradiction was observed, and the high-trust assessment is supported by coherent business content, clean threat indicators, valid transport encryption, and protective hosting controls. Operator identity remains independently unverified, so legitimacy should be understood as apparent rather than proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by a CDN/WAF layer, with all observed addresses belonging to edge infrastructure and no origin candidate identified in the analysis. The observed infrastructure is Amazon Technologies Inc. under AS14618, which provides a meaningful exposure-mitigation signal but is not, by itself, proof of business legitimacy.
- Hosting infrastructure: AS14618, Amazon Technologies Inc. / AMAZON-AES, US.
- Observed edge addresses: 100.24.208.97 and 35.172.94.1.
- Origin posture: 2 edge IPs observed; 0 likely origin IPs identified.
- CDN/WAF status: CDN present and trusted CDN protection detected.
Closing Assessment
The site is suitable for ordinary informational engagement and service enquiries, while credential or payment interactions should follow routine independent checks of the contracting entity, contractual protections, and payment safeguards.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 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: 1 report on hosting IP 35.172.94.1 (Amazon Technologies Inc., Content Delivery Network), 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 pacificpools.com.au.
- The request stayed on pacificpools.com.au. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Melbourne IT. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by server-cpanel.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2002-05-28. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-AES, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Melbourne IT |
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| Hosting | AMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 35.172.94.1 |
| Name servers | ns1.server-cpanel.com, ns2.server-cpanel.com |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-12 |
| Domain age | Not available (no registration date was returned) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2002-05-28 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 1 report | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about pacificpools.com.au 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.