Verdict
webstaurantstore.com 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 | Established online retailer (WebstaurantStore) listing commercial supplies and restaurant equipment, with product listings, prices, membership offer, and account sign-in. |
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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 | 23 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20042897 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.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
WebstaurantStore is an established online retail marketplace presenting commercial restaurant supplies, equipment, refrigeration, smallwares, disposables, furniture, janitorial products, and related business services, with product listings, prices, membership benefits, financing options, account creation, and order-management features.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: the available evidence shows no phishing, impersonation, malicious-content, or blacklist indicators, and the site's login and account-creation functions appear consistent with its stated e-commerce purpose rather than an abnormal credential-collection flow. The domain has a long, continuously observed history, while the site presents a detailed commercial catalog and standard retail functionality. External reputation checks were clean, and its global traffic footprint is top-tier, supporting an evidence-consistent assessment that the website is apparently legitimate rather than a scam or impersonation site.
- The homepage identifies WebstaurantStore and displays commercial restaurant-supply categories, product search, pricing, account access, rewards, membership, and order tracking.
- Domain registration evidence records creation on 2003-04-03, with an age of 23.37 years and expiration on 2029-04-03.
- Historical coverage records 2,897 archive snapshots spanning 2004–2026, with 23 years tracked and a maximum observed gap of 1 year.
- Reputation telemetry records 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, no external blacklist hit, and a traffic rank of 5467.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents itself as a commercial retailer rather than a regulated financial service, and no regulated license claim or license number is identified in the supplied evidence. The independent connection between the website and a specific real-world operating entity remains unverified, so the apparent legitimacy of the storefront should not be treated as proof of operator identity. This is a verification consideration rather than an indication of fraud. The site's transport security and established registration infrastructure are consistent with a mature retail operation; the registrar is Network Solutions, LLC, and the certificate uses domain validation rather than organization validation.
- The site's homepage is categorized as an e-commerce storefront and describes product sales, membership or Plus fees, and financing options rather than a regulated financial offering.
- The site's domain is registered through Network Solutions, LLC.
- The site is served from AS13335, Cloudflare, Inc.; its TLS certificate is issued by WE1 at DV validation level and is valid through 2026-10-12.
- The homepage contains product, account, and order-support content but no supplied license authority or license number.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an enterprise or consumer should independently confirm the merchant identity, review the applicable returns and order-support terms, and use payment methods that provide appropriate transaction protections. Any required business or sector-specific registration should be checked against the relevant official registry, and official support channels should be confirmed through an independent route rather than relying solely on page links.
- The homepage provides “Returns & Orders,” Help Center, account, and order-tracking functions that can be checked against the applicable purchase terms.
- The site offers account creation and sign-in, making independent confirmation of the intended merchant domain appropriate before credential submission.
- The stated business model involves product sales, membership benefits, and financing options, so payment-protection and financing terms are relevant pre-transaction checks.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. The conclusion is strong at the website-risk level, while the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection and Cloudflare-served edge infrastructure provide a meaningful defensive layer against direct exposure and common delivery abuse, although protective hosting alone does not establish legitimacy. The observed infrastructure includes Cloudflare edge addresses and potential origin candidates, so the infrastructure should be understood as mitigating rather than dispositive evidence.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and ordinary commercial use are proportionate to the current assessment, subject to the routine independent merchant-identity, returns, and payment-protection checks expected before credentials or funds are committed.
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 | 25% |
- 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 webstaurantstore.com.
- The request stayed on webstaurantstore.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Network Solutions, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2029-04-03. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2004-03-27. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Network Solutions, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700::6811:4932 |
| Name servers | FIONA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, SAM.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-12 |
| Domain age | 23.37 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2029-04-03 |
| Archive first seen | 2004-03-27 |
| Archive snapshots | 2897 |
| 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 webstaurantstore.com 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.