Verdict
shopauskunft.de 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 | Shopauskunft.de is a German consumer and business review platform. Consumers can browse shop reviews and submit feedback, while businesses can collect, analyze, publish, and moderate customer reviews through paid packages and support services. |
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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 | Not availableNo registration record was returned | Noted |
| Web archive | Archived since 20021289 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Public web-archive history exists since 2002.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
Shopauskunft.de is a German consumer and business review platform that presents shop ratings, customer feedback, recommendations, and paid tools for businesses seeking to collect, analyze, publish, and moderate reviews.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent review-platform identity, with consumer search and feedback functions alongside merchant login options, and the analysis found no phishing, impersonation, malicious-content, or deceptive-form indicators. Its long-running historical presence and clean external reputation materially support the conclusion that this is an established service rather than a recently created imitation.
- The homepage identifies Shopauskunft.de as an independent review portal covering consumer shopping categories and registered shops.
- The domain was first observed on 2002-12-08 and has an authoritative age of 23.64681724845996 years.
- The archive contains 1,289 snapshots spanning 2002–2026, covering 25 years with a maximum gap of 2 years.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, with no phishing or blacklist hit.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website’s stated model is a review and reputation-management marketplace, monetized through business packages, pricing, consulting, helpdesk support, and review-collection services. No regulated financial activity is presented in the supplied evidence, and no license claim or license number was identified; this is a transparency point for applicable consumer, advertising, data-protection, or platform obligations, not evidence of deception. A third-party broker dataset produced no match, while the site’s established operating history and technical continuity support its business identity.
- The homepage links to “Für Unternehmen,” “Pakete & Preise,” “Beratung,” “Helpdesk,” and legal-information content.
- The site states that consumers can access reviews and that businesses can collect, analyze, publish, and moderate customer feedback.
- Hosting is provided through AS24940 (HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE).
- The TLS certificate is issued by YE2 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-09-13T06:00:39+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before a regulated engagement, the prospective counterparty should confirm the applicable corporate, consumer-protection, and data-processing disclosures through authoritative registries and review the contractual terms governing paid business packages. Official support and contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route before material commercial onboarding.
- The homepage provides links for business packages, pricing, security, advice, helpdesk, and legal information.
- The supplied business-model evidence identifies paid reputation-growth services but does not identify a licensing authority or registration number.
Summary Verdict
Shopauskunft.de presents as a legitimate, established, and trustworthy platform with a coherent operating model, sustained historical continuity, clean reputation signals, and no observed contradiction. Normal interaction, including account login and standard platform use, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by a CDN/WAF layer, and the observed address was an edge address with no origin candidate identified. This reduces direct exposure of the underlying service and is a mitigating infrastructure characteristic, though it is not by itself proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Proceed with normal platform use, subject to the organization’s standard onboarding, contractual, and regulatory-control procedures.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-01 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 |
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| 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 shopauskunft.de.
- The request stayed on shopauskunft.de. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by domaincontrol.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2002-12-08. Clear
- It is hosted on HETZNER-AS, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
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| Hosting | HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 213.239.210.157 |
| Name servers | ns81.domaincontrol.com, ns82.domaincontrol.com |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-13 |
| Domain age | Not available (no registration date was returned) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2002-12-08 |
| Archive snapshots | 1289 |
| 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 shopauskunft.de 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.