Verdict
safetymarineaust.com.au is low-trust and potentially risky.
Several risk patterns were present. Do not send money or personal details until you have verified this business another way.
| What this site appears to be | Corporate website for Safety Marine Australia / ROARING FORTIES™ presenting product categories (lifejackets, life rafts, PFDs), certification and insurance claims, servicing and distributor information, and contact details. No payment flows, login prompts, or suspicious data-collection observed. |
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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 | 2 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 23 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2003Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2003.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This is a corporate product-catalogue website for Safety Marine Australia and the ROARING FORTIES™ brand, presenting marine, aviation, military, and related safety products such as lifejackets, life rafts, personal flotation devices, accessories, servicing, and distributor information. Its apparent business model is the manufacture, supply, servicing, and direct sale of marine-safety equipment.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a coherent manufacturer profile and its pages do not show login prompts, payment flows, wallet functions, or suspicious data-collection mechanisms. However, this positive page-level presentation is outweighed by a confirmed external blacklist signal corroborated by two malicious detections, creating a material risk for sensitive interaction despite the absence of a demonstrated impersonation or phishing mechanism on the captured pages. The domain’s long continuity is a mitigating historical signal, but it does not resolve the external reputation contradiction.
- External reputation checks recorded 2 malicious detections and confirmed blacklist status across 2 external blacklist sources.
- The homepage and product catalogue describe Safety Marine Australia and ROARING FORTIES™ products without login forms, payment flows, or sensitive-data forms.
- Domain continuity records a first historical observation of 2003-10-22 and an authoritative age of 22.830937713894592 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website identifies itself as Safety Marine Australia and claims that ROARING FORTIES™ products are certified and approved, insured, and manufactured in Australia, while also describing servicing and distributor activity. Those on-site claims do not independently verify the real-world operator or establish the legal basis for the business; identity verification therefore remains unresolved. The site does not present a licensing or registration number in the supplied content, which is a transparency gap requiring external confirmation rather than, by itself, proof of misconduct. The available broker-context check produced no match, but that does not constitute a regulatory finding.
- The homepage states that the business manufactures and supplies marine, aviation, and military safety products and claims more than 18 years of manufacturing and testing experience.
- Domain registration is through Domain Directors Pty Ltd trading as Instra.
- Hosting is identified as AS63956, 5G NETWORK OPERATIONS PTY LTD, AU.
- The site’s TLS certificate is DV, issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, valid through 2026-09-16T23:59:59+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive engagement, an independent registry search should confirm the legal entity operating under the Safety Marine Australia name and its relationship to the ROARING FORTIES™ brand. Certification and insurance claims should be checked directly with the relevant issuing bodies and insurers, and contact or distributor details should be confirmed through an independently sourced business channel rather than relying solely on the website. Any proposed purchase should use payment protections appropriate to an unverified merchant.
- The About and product pages are the principal sources for the site’s certification, approval, manufacturing, and insurance claims.
- The contact and distributor pages provide the site’s stated routes for sales and service confirmation.
- The captured site presents a company/product catalogue rather than an independently validated corporate or regulatory profile.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated risk for sensitive interactions. The site’s credible-looking commercial presentation and established domain continuity do not overcome the confirmed external reputation contradiction or the unresolved operator identity. Account access, credential submission, and financial engagement are not supported by the available evidence.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single endpoint without a detected CDN or WAF layer. That endpoint is hosted by 5G NETWORK OPERATIONS PTY LTD in Australia on AS63956, so mainstream edge-protection infrastructure is not available as a meaningful mitigating factor; the valid DV certificate provides transport encryption but does not establish organizational legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users should limit activity to passive review until the operator, business claims, and transaction arrangements have been independently validated; sensitive or financial engagement should not proceed on the website’s presentation alone.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-22 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, analysis engine, behaviour in a sandbox.
01 Governance Risk
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - The page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS - The structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE
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 safetymarineaust.com.au.
- The request stayed on safetymarineaust.com.au. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Domain Directors Pty Ltd trading as Instra. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by digitalhost.com, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2003-10-22. Clear
- It is hosted on INT-5GN-AS-AP, from a server in AU. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Domain Directors Pty Ltd trading as Instra |
|---|---|
| Hosting | INT-5GN-AS-AP - 5G NETWORK OPERATIONS PTY LTD, AU |
| Country | AU |
| Server IP | 103.127.42.102 |
| Name servers | dns1.digitalhost.com, dns2.digitalhost.com, dns3.digitalhost.com |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-16 |
| Domain age | 22.83 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2003-10-22 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about safetymarineaust.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.