SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

Security Review

Is cuddly-critters.com legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 91/100

Cuddly Critters Pet Sitting is a long-established local pet care service in South Carolina with clean scans and verified positive reviews.

cuddly-critters.comScanned 2d ago
0
Trust score
SAFE
Heuristics 90·MT 92
Category tags
pet serviceslocal business95% MT confidence
View density

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
25 years old
Registered Oct 4, 2001
MT Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 95% confidence

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust92/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The site presents itself as a real pet sitting company with services, testimonials, and contact details that match the business name exactly. Our scan shows the domain is 9007 days old, which lines up with the business operating since 1998. No antivirus engines or blocklists flagged the page, the hosting IP has zero abuse reports, and SSL is valid. Independent reviews on Yelp and Reddit are positive, the business is registered and active in South Carolina, and no scam reports or complaints appear anywhere. The page loads normal business content without any deceptive patterns or login forms.
Full dossier
Analysis complete

Page Content

The page displays standard pet sitting services, client testimonials, and contact information for Cuddly Critters Pet Sitting. It includes phone, email, and service descriptions consistent with a local business.

Infrastructure

Valid SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt, clean IP reputation with no abuse reports, and no malicious redirects or external scam domains detected.

Domain History

Domain registered over 24 years ago through Cloudflare with no privacy masking, matching the business timeline since 1998.

Web Reputation

Zero scam mentions found; three positive reviews located on Yelp and Reddit plus official business registration in Greenville County, South Carolina.

Risk Factors
1
  • No physical address displayed directly on the homepage.
Positive Signals
5
  • Domain age exceeds 24 years and aligns with stated business history since 1998.
  • Zero detections across our antivirus network and browser blocklists.
  • Active US business registration confirmed with matching name and location.
  • Multiple independent positive reviews on Yelp and Reddit with no complaints found.
  • Clean hosting IP with zero abuse reports and valid SSL certificate.
AI Recommendation
This is a legitimate local business. Use the listed phone or email if you need pet sitting services in the Greenville area.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

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Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for cuddly-critters.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Domain age
24 yrs
Registered Oct 2001
Business registration
Active · US
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
3 positive
Key findings
7 headline facts from open-web research
  • Domain cuddly-critters.com is the official site for Cuddly Critters Pet Sitting, a pet sitting/dog walking service in Taylors/Greenville, SC area.
  • Business founded/operating since 1998 by owner Corinne Smith; bonded and insured; serves Greenville County and surrounding areas.
  • Contact: 864-901-3189, support@cuddly-critters.com; address references include 425 Indian Trl, Taylors, SC 29687.
  • Positive mentions and reviews on Yelp, Facebook (1849+ likes), Nextdoor (137 faves), Instagram, local Greenville media (2016 article), and Reddit.
  • Listed in official Greenville County pet sitters PDF registry with website and contact details.
  • Domain age aligns with business history (nearly 25 years); no scam, complaint, or negative reports found in searches.
  • Services include in-home pet sitting, dog walking, overnights, boarding; testimonials on site and review platforms.
Positive reviews (3)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • Yelpopen

    "Cuddly Critters Pet Sitting is the best pet sitting service in the upstate! When your pets are with Corinne, they are treated like one of the family."

  • Redditopen

    "I use cuddly critters pet sitting for my 3 cats, and highly recommend them."

  • Yelpopen

    "I just used Cuddly Critters for first time last week. My pet sitter Stacey was absolutely wonderful . She contacted me each time she came over to give me an ..."

Business registration
Status: active · US

Cuddly Critters Pet Sitting LLC, Taylors, SC; listed in Greenville County pet sitters registry; operating since 1998

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

Our research found the site belongs to an active US-registered pet sitting business with positive reviews on Yelp and Reddit, and no scam complaints or negative reports.

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.

0Malicious0Suspicious58Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not in pass
ESET-NOD32
Not in pass
Avira
Not in pass
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Clean
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.

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
Has a contact email on its own domain
Emails on site's domainsupport@cuddly-critters.com
Phone numbers2025-07-23
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles2
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Contact email on the site's own domain (support@cuddly-critters.com).
  • Phone number listed (2025-07-23).
  • Links to 4 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age25 years old
RegistrarCloudflare, Inc.
RegisteredOct 4, 2001
ExpiresOct 4, 2026
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · R12
ExpiresAug 3, 2026 (61d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingLiquid Web, L.L.C
Server locationUS
Web serverApache
Platform / CMSWP Rocket 3.21.3

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
Yes
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://cuddly-critters.com/
  • 2200https://www.cuddly-critters.com/cross-domain

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPLiquid Web, L.L.C
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

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 cuddly-critters.com and not a lookalike like c-uddly-critters.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.

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Reputation Sources

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

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
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AbuseIPDB
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Referenced Domains

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

Safety FAQ

Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.

  • Our automated security review found no threat indicators on cuddly-critters.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.

Final Verdict

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Trust / 100
Final Verdict·cuddly-critters.com
SAFE

This is the official website for Cuddly Critters Pet Sitting, a pet sitting and dog walking business serving the Greenville, SC area. The domain is over 24 years old, matches an active registered business operating since 1998, and shows multiple positive reviews with zero scam reports. Contact them directly using the phone and email listed on the site.

This is a legitimate local business. Use the listed phone or email if you need pet sitting services in the Greenville area.

AV engines
92
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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