Verdict
who.is 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 | Site offers WHOIS, RDAP, DNS and IP lookup tools, domain history and uptime monitoring, plus API access and paid premium services for researchers and site owners. |
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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 | 24 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20025000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Amazon RSA 2048 M01 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2002.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Who.is is an informational domain-intelligence and monitoring service that presents WHOIS, RDAP, DNS, nameserver, IP, domain-history, and uptime tools, alongside paid API access, premium reports, and monitoring services for researchers and site owners.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: the available evidence contains no phishing, impersonation, or malicious-activity finding. The homepage presents a coherent domain-tools business model, with a search-only form and no credential-harvesting, wallet-drainer, hidden-form, or cloaking behavior detected. A similarity signal associated the domain name with “who.int,” but this was not supported by the site's distinct content or by any confirmed impersonation indicator. Two suspicious inline scripts were observed during behavioral testing; they were not accompanied by unauthorized external submissions, password forms, clipboard manipulation, or other abuse patterns. The site's long registration continuity, substantial archival record, clean observed reputation, and established traffic footprint materially support an apparently legitimate, low-risk interpretation.
- The homepage's stated functions are WHOIS, RDAP, DNS, nameserver, IP, domain-history, and uptime lookups; the form type is search-only.
- The domain was registered on 2002-06-12 and is 24.21 years old.
- Historical records show 5,000 archive snapshots from 2002-08-13 through 2022-02-08, spanning 21 years tracked with a maximum gap of 1 year.
- Behavioral testing recorded 2 suspicious inline scripts, but 0 hidden forms, 0 external password forms, 0 wallet-drainer runs, and 0 clipboard-write events.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The service is presented as an informational software and monitoring business rather than as a broker, investment provider, or other visibly regulated financial service. No license or registration number is claimed in the supplied site content, and the available evidence does not independently verify the real-world operator behind the service; this is a disclosure and identity-verification point, not evidence of scam activity. The absence of a broker-reputation match and the site's high page-authority signal are supportive contextual indicators, while the valid transport certificate and established infrastructure reinforce technical maturity. Paid subscriptions, premium reports, and API access nevertheless warrant ordinary checks of the contracting entity, terms, renewal conditions, and payment protections before commercial engagement.
- The homepage describes paid premium reports, monitoring services, and API access for researchers and site owners, without presenting a regulated-financial license claim.
- The site is served from AS14618, AMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc., US.
- The TLS certificate uses Amazon RSA 2048 M01, has DV validation, and is valid to 2027-01-18T23:59:59+00:00.
- The page-authority assessment is in the high band, and no broker-reputation match was identified.
What to Verify Next
Before purchasing a premium service or establishing an ongoing commercial relationship, the prospective customer should confirm the legal contracting entity, review subscription, renewal, cancellation, and refund terms, and use payment methods offering appropriate transaction protections. Official support and contact channels should be confirmed through an independent route, particularly before credentials or payment details are submitted. The service's search-only homepage interaction is suitable for initial non-sensitive research, while any later account or billing workflow should be assessed against those commercial controls.
- The homepage contains one search form and no sensitive input form or untrusted form destination.
- The service presentation includes paid offerings, making contract terms, billing controls, and payment protections relevant verification points.
- The homepage exposes informational lookup functionality before any account or payment interaction is required.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, and the available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. This conclusion reflects strong convergence across the site's coherent purpose, technical maturity, historical continuity, and absence of confirmed contradictory signals; it does not independently prove the identity of the real-world operator.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by AWS CDN/WAF infrastructure, and the observed addresses belong to AWS edge infrastructure rather than presenting a directly exposed origin address. This is a meaningful exposure-reduction control, but it remains a mitigating technical measure and is not proof of operator legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal research use is proportionate to the assessed posture; account or payment interactions should proceed after the ordinary independent merchant-identity, terms, and payment-protection checks described above.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 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 who.is.
- The request stayed on who.is. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by awsdns-03.org, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-06-12. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2002-08-13. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-AES, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 100.50.74.35 |
| Name servers | ns-1048.awsdns-03.org, ns-540.awsdns-03.net, ns-1741.awsdns-25.co.uk, ns-232.awsdns-29.com |
| SSL issuer | Amazon RSA 2048 M01 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-01-18 |
| Domain age | 24.21 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-12 |
| Archive first seen | 2002-08-13 |
| Archive snapshots | 5000 |
| 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 who.is 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.