Verdict
pats-dublin.org is moderately trusted.
Most signals looked ordinary, and some evidence was missing. Read the checks below before you pay or hand over personal details.
| What this site appears to be | Official-looking local church website for Saint Patrick's Episcopal Church in Dublin, OH. Provides worship times, staff announcement, ministries, events, contact details, address, phone and email, and links to social media. Contains a contact form and calls-to-give/donate. |
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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, 2 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 28 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 1999287 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Governance Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 1999.
- 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
pats-dublin.org presents itself as the website of Saint Patrick’s Episcopal Church in Dublin, Ohio, offering worship information, ministries, community events, staff announcements, contact facilities, social-media connections, and donation-related resources for a local faith community.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed across the available evidence: there were no phishing, impersonation, malicious-content, or confirmed blacklist indicators. The homepage is consistent with an informational community organisation, includes a normal contact form rather than a login or credential-collection form, and links to established social platforms. Two abuse reports were associated with a shared content-delivery IP operated by Amazon, with zero confidence and attribution explicitly applying to shared infrastructure rather than to this website; this is therefore a limited reputational signal, not evidence of site-level abuse. The long-established registration and continuous archival presence further support provenance consistent with an established site.
- The homepage identifies Saint Patrick’s Episcopal Church, provides worship information and ministry content, and contains no detected phishing or brand-impersonation indicators.
- The contact page contains one contact form with no sensitive fields and no external password-submission destination.
- The domain was registered on 1998-06-12 and is approximately 28.21 years old.
- The archive records 287 snapshots spanning 1999–2024, with 26 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s apparent operating model is community and charitable activity supported by donations, pledges, events, and participation rather than a financial-services offering. The reviewed content does not present a financial-services license or registration number; for this type of organisation, that is a verification and disclosure point rather than evidence of fraud. The available identity evidence connects the site to the named church with reasonable, but not independently conclusive, confidence. No separate broker or regulated-entity association was identified, and the available technical controls provide useful security support without establishing the operator’s legal identity.
- The homepage and giving pages describe pledge campaigns, an endowment fund, and methods for making donations through the site’s stated church activities.
- The site’s social links point to Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram, providing three external identity-consistency channels.
- The site is hosted on AS16509, Amazon.com, Inc., US.
- The transport certificate is DV-validated, issued by YR2, and valid through 2026-09-07.
What to Verify Next
Before a donation or other sensitive transaction, independently confirm that the receiving account belongs to Saint Patrick’s Episcopal Church and that the payment destination is reached through an established church communication channel. Confirm the organisation’s legal or diocesan affiliation using an independent source, and ensure that any payment provider displays appropriate transaction protections and recourse. For routine informational browsing, the observed content and interaction model do not indicate a need for exceptional handling.
- The homepage provides the church name, worship schedule, staff information, and links to external social channels that can be compared independently.
- The giving section includes pledge, endowment, and online-giving resources requiring confirmation of the intended recipient before payment.
- The site’s only identified form is a contact form, with no login form or hidden password form detected.
Summary Verdict
The website has a moderate-trust posture supported by a coherent community-organisation presentation, a long operating history, sustained archival presence, clean threat checks, and no observed contradictions. Its connection to the named real-world organisation appears likely but is not independently verified, so the evidence supports ordinary informational use while leaving higher-value activity subject to confirmation.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by an Amazon CDN/WAF arrangement, with observed traffic terminating on two Amazon edge addresses in AS14618 and no origin candidate identified. This edge-only architecture reduces direct exposure of the hosting environment and is a mitigating control, although it does not independently prove legitimacy or prevent rapid content changes.
Closing Assessment
Routine browsing and ordinary site interaction are proportionate; independent confirmation of the recipient and payment destination should precede donations or other high-value sensitive actions.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership, behaviour in a sandbox.
01 Governance Risk
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
02 Dynamic Interaction Caution
- The structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE - The page exchanged network traffic with destinations TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_TRAFFIC - The page carried inline scripts written in a style TrustSniffer treats as suspicious.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_SUSPICIOUS_INLINE_SCRIPTS - The page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS - Most of what the page loaded came from other domains rather than from this one.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_HIGH
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 2 reports on hosting IP 76.223.58.8 (Amazon.com, Inc., Content Delivery Network), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- Trusted social count=3
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 pats-dublin.org.
- The request stayed on pats-dublin.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by domaincontrol.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-06-11. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1999-11-27. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
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| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 76.223.58.8 |
| Name servers | ns35.domaincontrol.com, ns36.domaincontrol.com |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-07 |
| Domain age | 28.21 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-11 |
| Archive first seen | 1999-11-27 |
| Archive snapshots | 287 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 2 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about pats-dublin.org 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.