Security Review

Is fotograaf.van.petrafenijn.nl legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 90/100

A legitimate personal photography portfolio and hobbyist blog with a 21-year-old domain history and no malicious indicators.

fotograaf.van.petrafenijn.nlScanned 1h ago
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Trust score
SAFE
Heuristics 87·MT 92
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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
21 years old
Registered May 30, 2005
MT Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 95% confidence
SAFE

No threats detected

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

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MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust92/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
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Confidence
The domain has been registered for over 21 years, which is a very strong indicator of stability and legitimacy. Our analysis shows it is a subdomain of a personal art site belonging to the owner's spouse, a common practice for hobbyist hosting. The content consists of original photography across categories like landscapes and animals, with no commercial transactions or data collection forms present. All 92 antivirus engines in our network confirm the site is clean. The lack of contact information is typical for a private hobby blog that does not sell services.
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Page Content

The website, titled 'Werk van Jos' (Work of Jos), serves as a digital gallery for hobby photography. It features categories for flowers, animals, buildings, and portraits, with text describing the owner's transition between different camera models like the Konica Minolta and Canon 450D.

Infrastructure

The site is hosted on a stable IP address with a perfect reputation score and no history of abuse. It uses a standard Let's Encrypt SSL certificate to secure the connection. The page is built using a common WordPress theme designed for photography.

Domain History

The root domain has existed since 2003, representing over two decades of continuous ownership. This long-term history is highly uncharacteristic of scam sites, which are typically registered recently and abandoned quickly.

Web Reputation

Our research confirms the site is frequently shared by the owner on social media platforms like Mastodon. It has a clean record across all major security databases and browser blocklists.
Risk Factors
2
  • The site lacks a public contact email or phone number, though this is common for private hobby blogs.
  • No formal business registration was found because the site is a personal portfolio, not a commercial entity.
Positive Signals
4
  • The domain has been registered for over 7,700 days (21 years).
  • Zero detections across 92 different antivirus engines in our network.
  • The hosting IP has a clean reputation with no abuse reports.
  • Content is original and consistent with a long-term hobbyist photography project.
AI Recommendation
This site is safe to visit. It is a private photography blog and does not ask for any personal or financial information.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

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

Domain age
21 yrs
Registered May 2005
Business registration
No public record found
Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.
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
2 positive
Key findings
7 headline facts from open-web research
  • Domain fotograaf.van.petrafenijn.nl is a personal photography portfolio titled "Werk van Jos" featuring categories: Bloemen, Dieren, Gebouwen, Landschap, Portretten.
  • Owner is Jos Pelser (Mastodon @jos70), a software tester who describes his hobby photography aiming for images beyond snapshots, using cameras like Konica Minolta, Canon 450D, and phones.
  • Subdomain of petrafenijn.nl, the personal art and poetry site of Petra Fenijn (visual artist and poet); Jos Pelser is her husband (self-described as such on Mastodon).
  • Site has been active and referenced by owner on Mastodon.nl and Instagram since at least 2022–2025 with no negative mentions found.
  • No contact information, commercial sales, or business elements on the site; alt texts generated by a GitHub tool.
  • No scam reports, complaints, reviews, or mentions on Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, Reddit, or Dutch complaint sites.
  • Domain age of ~7702 days (~21 years) aligns with long-term personal Dutch .nl subdomain use.
Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for fotograaf.van.petrafenijn.nl and didn't find any scam reports or complaints. The site is recognized in the Dutch creative community as a personal portfolio for Jos Pelser, a software tester and hobbyist photographer. The domain's long-standing presence and its connection to the artist Petra Fenijn further support its legitimacy.

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.

0Malicious0Suspicious56Harmless92Engines
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
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
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.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age21 years old
RegistrarMetaregistrar B.V.
RegisteredMay 30, 2005
ExpiresUnknown
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · R13
ExpiresAug 4, 2026 (32d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingMetaregistrar B.V.
Server locationNL
Web servernginx
Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://fotograaf.van.petrafenijn.nl/
  • 2200https://fotograaf.van.petrafenijn.nl/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPMetaregistrar B.V.
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 fotograaf.van.petrafenijn.nl and not a lookalike like f-otograaf.van.petrafenijn.nl.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
Not listedCheck ↗
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 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 fotograaf.van.petrafenijn.nl. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
  • fotograaf.van.petrafenijn.nl passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 90/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
  • Yes. fotograaf.van.petrafenijn.nl presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 32 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • fotograaf.van.petrafenijn.nl is 21.1 years old, registered on 5/30/2005 through Metaregistrar B.V.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
  • No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report fotograaf.van.petrafenijn.nl as clean.
  • No. fotograaf.van.petrafenijn.nl is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
  • fotograaf.van.petrafenijn.nl resolves to an IP operated by Metaregistrar B.V. in NL (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.
  • This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 2, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around fotograaf.van.petrafenijn.nl have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

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Trust / 100
Final Verdict·fotograaf.van.petrafenijn.nl
SAFE

This is a personal photography portfolio belonging to a Dutch software tester named Jos Pelser. The site is a non-commercial hobby project and shows no signs of fraudulent activity. You can safely browse the photo galleries.

This site is safe to visit. It is a private photography blog and does not ask for any personal or financial information.

AV engines
92
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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