Verdict
timmehosting.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 | Corporate website for Timme Hosting offering nginx-based SSD hosting, managed servers, shop hosting, object storage, migration services, and a free 14-day trial. Clear contact channels, pricing, blog and support resources present. |
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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 | 14 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2012620 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | 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 2012.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This is a corporate website for Timme Hosting, presenting nginx- and SSD-based web hosting, managed virtual and dedicated servers, shop-hosting solutions, cloud and object storage, migration services, support resources, and a free 14-day trial under a subscription-based hosting model.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site presents a coherent hosting-provider identity, provides contact, support, pricing, and service-navigation content, and shows no detected phishing, impersonation, malicious-content, or blacklist indicators. Interaction testing did record limited external POST activity and increased DOM change after interaction, but it found no hidden forms, external password submission, wallet activity, clipboard manipulation, or cloaking; these observations do not establish deceptive behavior. The site's long-running, continuous web presence is consistent with an established service rather than a newly created impersonation site.
- The homepage and linked service pages describe hosting, managed infrastructure, storage, migration, and support services without detected scam or impersonation indicators.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, with no Google Safe Browsing or external blacklist hit.
- The domain has 620 archive snapshots spanning 2012–2026, covering 15 years of tracked activity.
- Registration continuity dates to 2012; the domain is approximately 14.28 years old.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site is apparently legitimate and its commercial presentation is consistent with a mature hosting SaaS provider. The navigation includes an Impressum, privacy information, contact channels, customer support, and service documentation, while the available material does not establish a verified regulatory license or registration number. For this type of hosting service, that is a disclosure and merchant-identity verification point rather than evidence of fraud. The available technical and reputational evidence supports ordinary commercial interaction, although the real-world operator identity remains likely rather than independently verified.
- The homepage links to “Kontakt,” “Impressum,” “Datenschutz,” support resources, pricing information, and customer-service materials.
- The site's hosting infrastructure is identified as AS24940, HETZNER-AS — Hetzner Online GmbH, DE.
- Transport encryption uses a DV TLS certificate issued by YR1, valid to 2026-09-15T08:57:23+00:00.
- The site has an established global traffic presence, ranking 25278 and appearing within the top 1 million sites.
What to Verify Next
Before a credential or payment interaction, the prospective customer should confirm the legal entity and contracting party in the Impressum, review renewal, cancellation, refund, service-level, and data-processing terms, and confirm that the free trial does not convert to a paid subscription without clearly stated consent. Payment should use a method offering appropriate transaction protection, and official support channels should be confirmed through an independent route where the engagement is material.
- The Impressum page is the appropriate source for confirming the contracting entity and business address.
- Pricing and tariff-selector pages provide the relevant basis for checking trial conversion, recurring charges, and plan terms.
- Terms, privacy, and support pages should be reviewed together before entering account or billing information.
- The contact and support pages provide the stated channels for independent confirmation of service and billing arrangements.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence supports a high-trust, low-risk posture and is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. No scam, phishing, impersonation, or other identity contradiction was identified, but operator identity should be regarded as likely rather than independently proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by a CDN/WAF arrangement, and the observed edge addresses resolve through AS24940 operated by Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany; no origin-server candidate was identified in the analysis. This architecture reduces direct exposure of the hosting origin and is a mitigating infrastructure signal, not proof of business legitimacy.
- Two observed edge addresses were associated with AS24940; likely origin-IP candidates: 0.
- Hosting provider: HETZNER-AS — Hetzner Online GmbH, DE.
- CDN/WAF protection was detected, with 2 edge IPs and 0 identified origin candidates.
Closing Assessment
Normal evaluation of the service is proportionate to the available evidence, with independent confirmation of contractual identity, commercial terms, and payment protections completed before material commitments.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-12 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 | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- Trusted social count=3
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 timmehosting.de.
- The request stayed on timmehosting.de. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by 168.192 2a01:4f8:c17:89e2:0:0:0:1, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2012-05-01. 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 | 2a01:4f8:1c1d:263::1 |
| Name servers | ns1.timmehosting.de 78.47.168.192 2a01:4f8:c17:89e2:0:0:0:1, ns2.timmehosting.de 157.90.19.57 2a01:4f8:1c1e:b474:0:0:0:1, ns3.timmehosting.de 94.237.31.204 2a04:3542:1000:910:74b0:a6ff:feb3:4ad5 |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-15 |
| Domain age | 14.28 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2012-05-01 |
| Archive snapshots | 620 |
| 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 timmehosting.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.