Verdict
socialdeal.nl 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 | Cookie/consent page from Social Deal (Dutch). Lists cookie categories (necessary, preferences, statistics, marketing), many third-party vendors and details about cookie names, lifetimes and purposes. Appears to be a legitimate consent information page for a deals/discount marketplace. |
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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 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 16 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20111214 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Amazon RSA 2048 M01 | 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 2011.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the Dutch Social Deal local-deals marketplace, presenting time-limited discounts for local experiences and merchants; its apparent model is to connect consumers with discounted offers while earning from deal sales, merchant and affiliate commissions, and advertising.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The analyzed consent page contains no phishing, impersonation, or malicious-content indicators, and the available reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious detections. The site's long-running, continuous web presence and aligned page content are consistent with an established website, although the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
- The homepage capture is identified as a Social Deal cookie and consent page and contains no reported red flags, login form, or sensitive submission form.
- The domain was registered on 2010-05-25 and is approximately 16.22 years old.
- Historical records contain 1,214 snapshots spanning 2011–2026, with 16 years tracked and no repurposing or semantic-drift finding.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, with no phishing-site finding.
Regulatory Verification Notes
Social Deal presents a conventional ecommerce and local-deals model rather than a regulated financial service. The analyzed page clearly explains necessary, preference, statistics, and marketing cookies, including tracking, personalization, and third-party advertising purposes. No license or registration number is claimed in the supplied site evidence; this is a disclosure and verification gap rather than evidence of deception. Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website, but it does not independently establish the legal entity operating it. The absence of a third-party broker match is contextual reputational information only and is not a licensing determination.
- The cookie page states that consent can be accepted, refused, adjusted, or withdrawn through the site's cookie controls.
- The page describes seven partners, IP-address-based identifiers, and targeted advertising across the site and third-party websites.
- Domain registration identifies Hostnet B.V. as registrar.
- The site is hosted on AS16509, Amazon.com, Inc.; its TLS certificate is issued by Amazon RSA 2048 M01, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-12-06.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an independent check should confirm the responsible merchant or operating entity, the applicable return and cancellation terms, and the payment-protection arrangements for the specific offer. For any offer that appears to involve a regulated activity, the relevant regulator's public register should be checked independently. Official support and contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route rather than relying solely on information presented in the site capture.
- The analyzed capture is a cookie and consent page, not a dedicated legal-entity or licensing disclosure page.
- The documented business model involves time-limited deals and merchant or affiliate transactions, making offer-specific cancellation and refund terms material.
- The capture contains no sensitive form and no untrusted form destination, so transaction-specific checks remain the principal outstanding due diligence step.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence supports a high-trust, low-risk posture and is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. The assessment supports ordinary website use, while the operator’s real-world identity remains unverified independently.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, and the observed addresses were CDN edge servers rather than identified origin candidates. This is a meaningful exposure-reduction measure, but it is treated as mitigation rather than proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Proceed with normal use subject to ordinary independent checks of merchant identity, offer terms, and payment protection before submitting credentials or making a payment.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-11 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 socialdeal.nl.
- The request stayed on socialdeal.nl. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Hostnet B.V.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-02-21. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Hostnet B.V. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 54.217.106.242 |
| Name servers | rafe.ns.cloudflare.com, ned.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | Amazon RSA 2048 M01 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-06 |
| Domain age | 16.22 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2011-02-21 |
| Archive snapshots | 1214 |
| 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 socialdeal.nl 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.