No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is dogservicesrva.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate Richmond VA dog boarding and grooming business with a 13-year domain, clean scans, and 4.5-star reviews from hundreds of customers.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a real local pet-care provider with four Richmond-area locations, phone numbers, service descriptions, and a reservation system. The domain has been registered for 4759 days, far longer than typical scam sites, and the hosting IP shows zero abuse reports. Browser blocklists returned clean and no scam-family patterns were detected. Independent reviews show a 4.5-star rating from over 550 customers plus active social profiles, while zero scam reports were located. A handful of ordinary service complaints appear on review platforms but do not indicate fraud.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for dogservicesrva.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain dogservicesrva.com active for 4759 days (approx. 13 years).
- Business website and social profiles describe dog boarding, daycare, grooming services with 4 locations in/around Richmond, VA; claims founded 1990.
- 4.5-star rating from 558 reviews on Trustindex.io.
- Reddit thread in r/rva discusses boarding experiences with one negative comment citing understaffing and facility issues.
- BBB profile exists for DogServices in Richmond VA but business is not accredited.
- Active presence on Facebook (@DogServicesVA), Instagram, Yelp, LinkedIn, TikTok with recent posts about events and services.
- Yelp reviews include both positive facility comments and complaints about pricing/charges.
- Trustindexopen
"Dogservicesrva.com is trusted by over 558 customers , earning a 4.5-star rating! Explore real reviews and share your own experience."
- Yelpopen
"I have been very happy with Dog Services . The facility was clean, well kept, large play areas, organized, and best of all crawling with staffers."
Security Scans
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.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- Phone number listed (804-997-7103).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://dogservicesrva.com/
- 2200https://dogservicesrva.com/
Server Reputation
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 dogservicesrva.com and not a lookalike like d-ogservicesrva.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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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 dogservicesrva.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- dogservicesrva.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 86/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. dogservicesrva.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 63 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- dogservicesrva.com is 13.0 years old, registered on 5/17/2013 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. dogservicesrva.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- dogservicesrva.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Technologies Inc. in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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