No specific threat detected
Legitimate 20-year-old UK construction firm with clean antivirus scans and active company registration.
Is draytonconstruction.co.uk legit or a scam?
Legitimate 20-year-old UK construction firm with clean antivirus scans and active company registration.
This is the legitimate website of a registered UK construction company. The domain is 20 years old, the company is listed as active since 2000, and no scam reports or malicious detections exist.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The website appears to be a standard, legitimate-looking corporate landing page for a construction company with no visible indicators of malicious intent or scam activity.
What our vision model saw
4 signalsProfessional corporate landing page for a construction firm
Clean, functional layout with clear branding
No suspicious urgency tactics, fake security badges, or intrusive overlays
Standard 'Contact Us' call-to-action button present
Intelligence
The domain draytonconstruction.co.uk was registered in June 2006 and has remained active for over 20 years. The company Drayton Construction Limited (03968985) appears in official UK business records as incorporated in April 2000 and currently listed as active. Zero of 92 antivirus engines flagged the site, browser blocklists returned clean, and the single positive review found matches the company's services. The page itself is a standard corporate site with no login forms, urgency tactics, or suspicious redirects. The combination of long domain age, verified business registration, and absence of any scam indicators confirms this is a legitimate business website.
Web Research Findings
Independent findings for draytonconstruction.co.uk, 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.
- Drayton Construction Ltd is a registered UK company (03968985) incorporated in April 2000.
- The company provides civil engineering, road construction, and building services in Oxfordshire and surrounding counties.
- The business maintains a physical office address at Windwhistle, Hanney Road, Steventon, Oxfordshire, OX13 6AW.
- Public records and business directories confirm the company's existence and active status.
- No evidence of scam activity or consumer complaints was found; the company has received positive feedback for its professional conduct.
- construction.co.ukopen
"I would like to say how impressed I have been with the very professional way your men have carried out the work. They have all been very courteous & friendly."
Registered as DRAYTON CONSTRUCTION LIMITED (Company Number 03968985) since April 2000.
Search of scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for draytonconstruction.co.uk found no scam reports or complaints. A single positive review was located praising the company's professional conduct. UK business registry records confirm Drayton Construction Limited (03968985) has been active since April 2000 with a listed physical address in Oxfordshire.
Domain Timeline
- Jun 23, 2006Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 20 years old today.
- Jul 26, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
draytonconstruction.co.uk 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
Security Scans
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.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe 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.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (info@draytonconstruction.co.uk).
- Phone number listed (1235 833 888).
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1308http://draytonconstruction.co.uk/
- 2308https://draytonconstruction.co.uk/
- 3200https://www.draytonconstruction.co.uk/
Server Reputation
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 draytonconstruction.co.uk and not a lookalike like d-raytonconstruction.co.uk.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.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
This is the legitimate website of a registered UK construction company. The domain is 20 years old, the company is listed as active since 2000, and no scam reports or malicious detections exist.
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 draytonconstruction.co.uk, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, and the domain is 20.1 years old, registered on June 23, 2006 — 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.
- draytonconstruction.co.uk 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 draytonconstruction.co.uk), 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 draytonconstruction.co.uk 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 draytonconstruction.co.uk 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 — draytonconstruction.co.uk 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.
- draytonconstruction.co.uk is 20.1 years old, registered on June 23, 2006 through Enix Ltd. 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 — draytonconstruction.co.uk presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE2, valid for another 44 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".
- draytonconstruction.co.uk resolves to an IP operated by Framer B.V. in NL (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 26, 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 draytonconstruction.co.uk 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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