Verdict
placeexchange.com 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 | Place Exchange presents an established B2B platform for planning, buying, selling, executing, and measuring programmatic out-of-home advertising. The page describes services for demand and supply partners, promotes PerView measurement, cites partnerships and acquisition by Broadsign, and provides news, contact, employment, privacy, legal, and tracking-consent resources. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | 14 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 22 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- 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
Place Exchange is a corporate B2B advertising-technology website presenting a programmatic out-of-home marketplace that connects media buyers with digital and physical advertising inventory, supported by campaign planning, targeting, execution, dynamic-creative, publisher, and PerView measurement services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No identity contradictions, brand impersonation, phishing indicators, or other substantive fraud signals were observed. The homepage consistently presents one business identity and a coherent commercial proposition for demand- and supply-side partners. Its long-established domain, material global traffic footprint, clean threat-reputation results, stable browser behaviour, and absence of suspicious forms or scripts collectively support the conclusion that this is a legitimate corporate website rather than a deceptive imitation.
- Domain-registration records identify Amazon Registrar, Inc. as registrar and show the domain was registered in 2005 (~21.47 years old), with registration extending to 2027.
- The homepage identifies Place Exchange throughout and describes a consistent programmatic out-of-home advertising business, including buyer, seller, publisher, and measurement services.
- External reputation checks found 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, with no phishing, impersonation, or confirmed threat-list finding.
- The homepage produced no hidden forms, sensitive data-entry forms, suspicious inline scripts, cloaking, clipboard manipulation, or hostile wallet behaviour.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website provides privacy, legal, tracking-consent, contact, employment, and corporate-news resources appropriate to a mature advertising-technology enterprise. It also states that Broadsign acquired Place Exchange and discloses personalized-advertising tracking through privacy-preference controls. No financial-services or brokerage proposition is presented, so the absence of a financial licence claim is consistent with the stated business model and is not an adverse regulatory signal. The available material does not independently establish the precise contracting entity or applicable corporate registration details, making those administrative particulars relevant for institutional onboarding rather than website-legitimacy concerns.
- The homepage navigation provides dedicated legal, privacy, contact, recruitment, news, and tracking-consent resources.
- The homepage presents Place Exchange as an advertising marketplace and enterprise platform, not as a broker, investment service, or financial intermediary.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YE1, valid to 2026-09-28.
- Hosting telemetry records service from AS209242, operated by CLOUDFLARESPECTRUM – Cloudflare London, LLC, US.
What to Verify Next
Enterprise onboarding should confirm the legal name of the contracting party, its corporate-registration particulars, and the authority of the commercial representative through supplied contractual documentation. Procurement teams should also reconcile the stated Broadsign relationship against official transaction or group documentation and review the privacy terms, data-processing terms, measurement methodology, and advertising-data flows against internal compliance requirements. Official contact channels should be confirmed through an independent corporate route before executing material agreements.
- The website’s legal and privacy resources provide the appropriate starting point for contractual, data-protection, and tracking review.
- The homepage’s acquisition statement creates a specific corporate relationship for procurement teams to reconcile during counterparty due diligence.
- PerView is described on the homepage as measuring reach, frequency, and impressions across media types, geographies, timeframes, and audience segments, making its methodology and data inputs relevant to validation.
- The disclosed privacy controls identify analytics, advertising, and tracking activity that should be assessed against institutional consent and data-governance requirements.
Summary Verdict
Place Exchange is a legitimate, established, and trustworthy corporate website with a coherent identity, mature commercial presentation, clean external reputation, and no observed contradictions or deceptive behaviour. The converging provenance, content, authority, and behavioural signals support normal confidence in the site and its stated business purpose.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, with both observed addresses operating as edge servers and no origin candidate exposed during analysis. This architecture reduces direct origin exposure and provides a meaningful security mitigation, although protective infrastructure is not independently determinative of organizational legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal website use, including portal login and standard account activity, is appropriate; institutional engagement can proceed through routine procurement, contractual, and counterparty-onboarding controls.
Written analysis generated 2026-07-31 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
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 placeexchange.com.
- The request stayed on placeexchange.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Amazon Registrar, Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by awsdns-22.org, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-02-15. Noted
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARESPECTRUM, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Amazon Registrar, Inc. |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARESPECTRUM - Cloudflare London, LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 141.193.213.11 |
| Name servers | NS-1202.AWSDNS-22.ORG, NS-1730.AWSDNS-24.CO.UK, NS-438.AWSDNS-54.COM, NS-645.AWSDNS-16.NET |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-28 |
| Domain age | 21.5 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-02-15 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 14 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about placeexchange.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.