Verdict
variomedia.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 Variomedia AG offering domain registration, hosting, email/groupware, DNS and SSL services. Includes product pricing, feature lists, support and a customer login portal. |
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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 | Not availableNo registration record was returned | Noted |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA EV R36 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- 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
This is the corporate website of Variomedia AG, a German domain-registration and hosting provider presenting domain services, web hosting, email and groupware, DNS, SSL certificates, reseller programmes, support resources, and a customer login portal; its apparent business model is subscription and transaction-based provision of internet infrastructure services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed across the supplied evidence: there were no phishing, impersonation, blacklist, malicious-content, or conflicting-identity findings. The homepage presents a coherent registrar and hosting business model, with detailed service categories, pricing, support, legal navigation, and a customer login that is consistent with the stated services rather than an unexplained credential-collection flow. The available reputation evidence is clean, and the site has a top-tier global traffic footprint, supporting an evidence-consistent assessment of an established, apparently legitimate website. The real-world operator identity nevertheless remains independently unverified, so the apparent corporate identity should not be treated as proven solely from the site.
- The homepage identifies Variomedia AG and provides domain registration, hosting, email/groupware, DNS, SSL, reseller, support, and legal-service content.
- The homepage’s login form has no untrusted destination, hidden form, external password submission, wallet interaction, or suspicious script activity.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, with no blacklist or phishing finding; the measured traffic rank was 15749 and the domain was in the top 1 million.
- The site’s behavioral inspection recorded two successful runs, zero external network activity, and no cloaking, wallet-drainer, clipboard-hijacking, or hidden-form behavior.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site includes an Impressum, legal information, terms and conditions, privacy information, abuse-reporting route, company information, and registrar-accreditation content. It sells domain and hosting services rather than presenting itself as a regulated financial service; no specific financial or other regulatory licence is evidenced in the supplied material. This is a verification and disclosure point, not evidence of impersonation or fraud. The stated corporate identity is plausible and internally coherent, but independent operator confirmation and any applicable registrar or consumer-service authorisations are not established by the supplied evidence. The available third-party broker dataset contained no matching entity, which is contextual reputation information rather than a regulatory determination.
- The homepage and navigation expose “Impressum,” “Rechtliches,” “AGB,” “Datenschutz,” and “Missbrauch melden” pages.
- The homepage describes direct registrar contracts, domain registration, hosting, email/groupware, DNS, SSL, APIs, and reseller services.
- The site is hosted on AS29014, SCALEUP – ScaleUp Technologies GmbH & Co. KG, Germany.
- Transport encryption uses an EV certificate issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA EV R36 for Variomedia AG, valid to 2026-10-16T23:59:59+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an organisation should independently confirm that the legal entity named in the site’s Impressum is the contracting merchant, review the applicable terms, cancellation and service-support provisions, and confirm payment-protection arrangements. Any claimed registrar accreditation or service authorisation should be checked with the relevant registry or accreditation body, using contact details obtained independently of the website. Customer-support channels should likewise be confirmed through an independent route before sensitive account recovery or billing matters are handled.
- The site provides an Impressum, terms, privacy information, support, and abuse-reporting routes suitable for independent cross-checking.
- The service catalogue includes paid subscriptions and domain-registration transactions, making merchant identity and cancellation terms material to procurement review.
- A customer login is present, so independent confirmation of account-recovery and support procedures is relevant before credential use.
- The site presents registrar-accreditation and partner/reseller information that can be validated against the relevant external registries.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website with a low operational risk posture and no observed scam or impersonation contradictions. The conclusion is strong at the website-risk level, while the connection between the site and an independently verified real-world operator remains unconfirmed.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed edge servers on AS16509 and hosting infrastructure on AS29014. This layered delivery posture is a mitigating security measure that can reduce direct exposure and absorb routine abuse, but it is not, by itself, proof of corporate legitimacy; the observed infrastructure presented no additional adverse signal in the supplied evidence.
- CDN/WAF protection was observed, with edge IPs 75.2.70.75 and 99.83.190.102 on AS16509.
- The resolved hosting environment included two edge addresses and two potential origin candidates.
- The primary hosting provider was SCALEUP – ScaleUp Technologies GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, on AS29014.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary use may proceed subject to standard enterprise onboarding controls, with independent confirmation of merchant identity, contractual terms, and payment protection completed before credentials or payment details are submitted.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-17 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 variomedia.de.
- The request stayed on variomedia.de. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by 96.53 2a00:1c3e:96:0:0:0:0:53, across 2 name servers. Noted
- It is hosted on SCALEUP, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | SCALEUP - ScaleUp Technologies GmbH & Co. KG, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 2a00:1c38:1:80:511c:e9b0:: |
| Name servers | ns1.variomedia.de 185.95.96.53 2a00:1c3e:96:0:0:0:0:53, ns2.variomedia.de 185.95.98.53 2a00:1c3e:98:0:0:0:0:53 |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA EV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-16 |
| Domain age | Not available (no registration date was returned) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| 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 variomedia.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.