Verdict
webhostkenya.co.ke appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
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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 | 1 reportAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 22 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2004276 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | 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 2004.
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is an established Kenyan web-hosting and digital-services platform offering shared hosting, VPS and cloud services, domain registration, website development, e-commerce solutions, SSL certificates, backups, security products, and technical support through recurring subscriptions and add-on services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No identity contradictions, brand impersonation, phishing behavior, or confirmed malicious reputation signals were observed. The site presents a coherent commercial model with Kenyan-shilling pricing, package specifications, policy references, support options, and a Nairobi address. Its long domain tenure and continuous historical record materially reduce the likelihood that it is a recently created or repurposed impersonation property.
- Domain-registration records identify Webhost Ultima Limited as registrar; the domain was registered on 9 September 2004 (~21.91 years old) and is registered through 9 September 2027.
- Web-archive records contain 276 snapshots spanning 14 October 2004–21 May 2026 (23 years tracked), with no detected suspicious repurposing or semantic drift.
- The homepage contained no login form, hidden form, sensitive-data form, untrusted form destination, cloaking, or suspicious inline script.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, no search-security hit, and no external threat-list match.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available site content identifies a conventional web-hosting and SaaS business rather than a financial or investment service. It provides service descriptions, pricing, policy links, support channels, and a physical Nairobi address. The supplied pages do not establish a specific corporate registration or sectoral licence, but no such regulatory claim is necessary to support the observed hosting-service proposition; this is therefore a limited disclosure note rather than a legitimacy concern.
- The homepage describes revenue-generating hosting subscriptions and supplementary domain, development, e-commerce, certificate, backup, and security services.
- The homepage displays a Nairobi business address alongside telephone and chat support channels.
- The homepage links to service policies and presents package pricing and specifications in Kenyan shillings.
- No cryptocurrency, token, brokerage, investment, or other regulated-financial proposition was detected on the assessed page.
What to Verify Next
Institutional procurement should confirm the contracting entity, applicable service terms, data-location commitments, support escalation routes, backup and recovery obligations, and security incident-notification provisions. Organizations placing regulated or sensitive workloads should also obtain current evidence of operational controls and reconcile the selected service tier with internal resilience, privacy, and third-party-risk requirements.
- The homepage advertises website security, SSL certificates, backups, and technical support, making the corresponding service levels relevant to contractual due diligence.
- The service catalogue includes shared, VPS, and cloud hosting, which may carry materially different isolation, administration, and recovery responsibilities.
- The site presents recurring packages and additional digital services, supporting review of renewal, cancellation, acceptable-use, and service-continuity terms.
Summary Verdict
The website is legitimate, established, and trustworthy, with strong convergence across identity, historical continuity, commercial substance, technical security, and external reputation. No contradictory signal undermines that conclusion, and normal interaction—including account login and standard use—is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare’s CDN/WAF, and both observed addresses were Cloudflare edge systems rather than exposed origin infrastructure. This reduces direct origin exposure and provides a meaningful technical mitigation, although protective infrastructure is not independently proof of business legitimacy. Transport encryption was valid and current at the time assessed.
- The hosting infrastructure is served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- The observed addresses, 104.21.74.191 and 172.67.162.95, were Cloudflare CDN edge addresses; no origin candidate was identified.
- The site’s TLS certificate was issued by WE1 with domain validation (DV) and is valid until 27 October 2026.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users may engage with the website normally, while enterprises should apply their standard supplier onboarding and contractual-control review before placing business-critical workloads with the provider.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-04 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 webhostkenya.co.ke.
- The request stayed on webhostkenya.co.ke. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Webhost Ultima Limited. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-09-09. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2004-10-14. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Webhost Ultima Limited |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 172.67.162.95 |
| Name servers | lloyd.ns.cloudflare.com, nia.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-27 |
| Domain age | 21.9 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-09-09 |
| Archive first seen | 2004-10-14 |
| Archive snapshots | 276 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 1 report | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about webhostkenya.co.ke 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.