SAFE

No specific threat detected

Legitimate 9.7-year-old construction company site with clean scans and government procurement listings.

Security Review

Is barnsleygroup.com legit or a scam?

Legitimate 9.7-year-old construction company site with clean scans and government procurement listings.

Barnsleygroup.com is the legitimate website for Barnsley Construction Group, a real construction firm based in Georgia, USA. The domain is 9.7 years old, hosted on clean infrastructure, and appears in official government procurement records. No scam reports or malicious indicators were found.

Cross-checked against 9 completed checks — none raised a concern
barnsleygroup.comScanned 2h ago
94/100
Trust score
0 = danger · 100 = safe
SAFE
Score breakdown
Heuristics 87·MT 93
Screenshot of barnsleygroup.comSee the live page ↓
Positive signals (5)
Antivirus clearNot on major blacklistsDomain is 10 years oldEncrypted connectionClean server reputation

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
10 years old
Registered Nov 11, 2016

Website Preview

Screenshot of barnsleygroup.com
LIVE RENDER
barnsleygroup.com

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.

Visual analysis

We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.

10
/ 100
Low visual risk

Visual red flags detected in the screenshot

The site appears to be a legitimate business page, though the use of a zoo photograph as a primary hero image is unusual for a construction firm.

Visual risk10/100

What our vision model saw

3 signals

The website presents as a professional business site for a construction company.

The imagery used is a high-resolution photograph of a zoo exhibit, which is incongruous with the 'Barnsley Construction Group' branding.

The layout is clean and functional with no obvious scam indicators like countdowns or fake security badges.

Intelligence

Editorial security brief
Intelligence
Low observed risktrust94/100
90%
Confidence
The domain has been registered since November 2016 and shows no antivirus detections across 92 engines. The page content matches a professional construction services company with references to aviation, municipal, and criminal justice projects. Government procurement documents from Georgia counties list the firm as a legitimate bidder, confirming the business exists. The visual analysis shows a clean business layout with no scam indicators. The only unusual element is a zoo photograph used as a hero image, which does not affect the legitimacy assessment.
Risk Factors
2
  • No contact email, phone, or physical address visible on the homepage.
  • Hero image shows a zoo exhibit that appears unrelated to construction services.
Positive Signals
5
  • Domain registered 9.7 years ago with no privacy protection.
  • Zero detections across 92 antivirus engines and clean browser blocklists.
  • Listed in official Georgia government procurement documents.
  • Business registration confirmed as active construction firm in the United States.
  • No scam reports or complaints found in web searches.
Investigation notes

Page Content

The site presents Barnsley Construction Group as a design-build and construction management firm with over 100 years of combined team experience. Services include preconstruction, design-build, and project management for aviation, municipal, and correctional facilities. The page lists specific project values ranging from $50,000 to $250 million and references work across 26 cities and counties.

Infrastructure

The domain resolves to IP 160.153.0.117 with an abuse score of 0/100 and no abuse reports. SSL certificate is valid and issued by Google Trust Services. The site loads external resources from Google Fonts, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, consistent with a standard business website. No malicious scripts or redirects were detected.

Domain History

The domain was registered on 11 November 2016 through GoDaddy and is 9.7 years old. Registration details are not privacy-protected. The age and registrar are consistent with an established business rather than a temporary scam operation.

Web Reputation

No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews were found across multiple search sources. The company appears in official Georgia government procurement documents and the Georgia Sheriffs' Association directory. Business records identify it as an active construction firm with 21-50 employees founded around 2016-2017.

What this means for you

This is a legitimate construction company website. The domain age, clean security scans, and presence in government records all support authenticity. Contact information is absent from the homepage, which is common for construction firms that prefer project inquiries through forms rather than public phone numbers.

Recommendation
The site appears legitimate for its stated purpose as a construction company. If you are considering doing business with them, request references and verify their credentials through normal construction industry channels.
Editorial assessment
SpecificEvidence-led

Web Research Findings

Independent findings for barnsleygroup.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.

Business registration
Active · United States
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
No scam reports found
No complaints, no negative coverage turned up in our sweep.
Key findings
5 headline facts from open-web research
  • Barnsleygroup.com is the website for 'Barnsley Construction Group', a construction and design-build firm based in Georgia, USA.
  • The company is frequently listed in public government procurement documents, such as sign-in sheets for construction projects in Fayette and DeKalb counties, Georgia.
  • The firm is listed in the Georgia Sheriffs' Association annual directory as a provider of public infrastructure and correctional facility construction.
  • Business data indicates the company was founded around 2016-2017 and employs approximately 21-50 people.
  • No evidence of scam activity, complaints, or malicious intent was found; the domain is consistently associated with legitimate construction industry activities.
Business registration
Status: active · United States

Identified as Barnsley Construction Group (or Barnsley Consulting LLC), a construction firm based in Georgia, USA.

Research summary
Editorial synthesis of the sourced facts above

We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for barnsleygroup.com and didn't find scam reports or complaints. The domain is referenced in official Georgia government procurement documents and industry directories as a legitimate construction firm.

Domain Timeline

  1. Nov 11, 2016
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 9.7 years old today.

  2. Jul 23, 2026
    Latest security review — Reviewed as safe

    This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.

barnsleygroup.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.

Threat Detection

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious57Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not queried
ESET-NOD32
Not queried
Avira
Not queried
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Not queried
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

Technical Details

The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.

Contact Verification

We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles3
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No phone number listed on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Links to 3 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age10 years old
RegistrarGoDaddy.com, LLC
RegisteredNov 11, 2016
ExpiresNov 11, 2026
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WE1
ExpiresAug 31, 2026 (39d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingGoDaddy.com, LLC
Server locationUS
Web servercloudflare
Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://barnsleygroup.com/
  • 2200https://barnsleygroup.com/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPGoDaddy.com, LLC
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

What to do

Still, stay alert

No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.

  • Double-check the exact URL in your address bar

    Confirm you are actually on barnsleygroup.com and not a lookalike like b-arnsleygroup.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.

  • Use a password manager

    Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.

  • Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

    Open

Final Verdict

94
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·barnsleygroup.com
SAFE

Barnsleygroup.com is the legitimate website for Barnsley Construction Group, a real construction firm based in Georgia, USA. The domain is 9.7 years old, hosted on clean infrastructure, and appears in official government procurement records. No scam reports or malicious indicators were found.

The site appears legitimate for its stated purpose as a construction company. If you are considering doing business with them, request references and verify their credentials through normal construction industry channels.

AV engines
92
Domain age
10 yrs
Flagged
0
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Safety FAQ

Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.

  • Our automated security review found no threat indicators on barnsleygroup.com, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, and the domain is 9.7 years old, registered on November 11, 2016 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
  • barnsleygroup.com passed our automated checks with a trust score of 94/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
  • Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from barnsleygroup.com), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from barnsleygroup.com is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
  • No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report barnsleygroup.com as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
  • No — barnsleygroup.com is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
  • barnsleygroup.com is 9.7 years old, registered on November 11, 2016 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
  • Yes — barnsleygroup.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, valid for another 39 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
  • barnsleygroup.com resolves to an IP operated by GoDaddy.com, LLC in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
  • This report is a record of the scan run on July 23, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about barnsleygroup.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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