Verdict
researchandmarkets.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 | Homepage for Research and Markets, a long-running commercial marketplace offering priced industry reports, directories, custom research, subscriptions, training, and related business-intelligence services across many sectors. |
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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 | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 24 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20025000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 | 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).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2002.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is an established business-to-business marketplace selling market-research reports, industry directories, subscriptions, custom research, conferences and training, and expert-network services, with visible pricing and account facilities supporting commercial access and purchases.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No identity contradictions, impersonation indicators, phishing behavior, or malicious reputation findings were observed. The site’s long-established domain, extensive and continuous archival record, substantial global traffic footprint, clearly defined commercial model, and benign form behavior provide mutually reinforcing evidence of legitimacy. Historical samples do not establish any suspicious repurposing or fundamental change in business purpose.
- Domain registration records show that the homepage domain was registered on 26 April 2002 and is approximately 24.28 years old.
- The domain has 5,000 archive snapshots spanning 9 August 2002 to 2 July 2015, covering 14 tracked years with no gap exceeding one year.
- External reputation checks associated with the domain recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, no malicious safe-browsing finding, no abuse reports, and no matching threat signatures.
- The homepage contained one mailing-list registration form, with no sensitive fields, hidden forms, untrusted submission destination, credential forwarding, cloaking, clipboard manipulation, or cryptocurrency-wallet behavior.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The supplied homepage presents an ordinary market-research ecommerce and professional-services business rather than a regulated financial product or brokerage offering. It links to About Us, Contact Us, Privacy Policy, and Terms & Conditions pages, but the contents of those identity and legal pages were not supplied for substantive review. No regulatory licence is claimed in the available homepage content; in the context of the stated business model, that is not an adverse legitimacy indicator. No corresponding broker record was identified in the supplied third-party broker dataset, which is contextual only and does not determine legal or regulatory status.
- The homepage describes priced reports, directories, subscriptions, custom research, training, and expert-network services, making the commercial exchange intelligible.
- The homepage navigation exposes About Us, Contact Us, Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions, FAQ, publisher, and account-access resources.
- The site is served from AS8075 (Microsoft Corporation, US).
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1, valid through 30 November 2026.
What to Verify Next
Before procurement, an enterprise customer should review the linked terms and privacy notice for the contracting entity, governing law, refund or cancellation provisions, permitted use of purchased research, data-processing terms, and dispute procedures. Material orders should follow the institution’s normal vendor-onboarding process, including independent confirmation of invoicing instructions and official contact channels.
- The homepage provides multiple regional telephone channels and links to dedicated contact and company-information pages.
- Publicly displayed report pricing and selectable USD, EUR, and GBP currencies support pre-purchase commercial review.
- The domain is registered through REGISTER S.P.A. and has a stated expiry date of 26 April 2032.
- The homepage links to LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google Reviews, providing additional channels for independent brand and contact corroboration.
Summary Verdict
The website is legitimate, established, and trustworthy. Its identity, commercial presentation, historical continuity, technical security, traffic presence, and external reputation converge consistently, with no contradictory risk signals. Normal interaction, including account login, registration, and standard use, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site operates behind a trusted CDN/WAF configuration using a single observed edge address; the origin server was not exposed during the analysis. This reduces direct infrastructure exposure and supports operational resilience, although protective infrastructure is a mitigating security control rather than independent proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users may engage with the site normally, while organizations making material purchases should apply their standard procurement, contractual, and payment-control procedures.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-03 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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 76/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 38% |
- Trusted social count=2
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 researchandmarkets.com.
- The request stayed on researchandmarkets.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under REGISTER S.P.A.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by awsdns-58.org, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2032-04-26. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2002-08-09. Clear
- It is hosted on MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | REGISTER S.P.A. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 20.107.224.57 |
| Name servers | NS-1492.AWSDNS-58.ORG, NS-1648.AWSDNS-14.CO.UK, NS-32.AWSDNS-04.COM, NS-679.AWSDNS-20.NET |
| SSL issuer | GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-30 |
| Domain age | 24.3 years |
| Domain expiry | 2032-04-26 |
| Archive first seen | 2002-08-09 |
| Archive snapshots | 5000 |
| 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 researchandmarkets.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.