Is restaurant-guru.com a scam?

Our automated security review flags restaurant-guru.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.

Is restaurant-guru.com safe to use?

No — restaurant-guru.com scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.

Does restaurant-guru.com have a valid SSL certificate?

Yes. restaurant-guru.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by TRAEFIK DEFAULT CERT, expiring in 351 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.

How old is the restaurant-guru.com domain?

restaurant-guru.com is 12.1 years old, registered on 4/22/2014 through Sea Wasp, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.

Has restaurant-guru.com been flagged by antivirus engines?

No. All 93 antivirus engines in our malware network report restaurant-guru.com as clean.

Is restaurant-guru.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?

No. restaurant-guru.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.

Where is restaurant-guru.com hosted?

restaurant-guru.com resolves to an IP operated by Hetzner Online GmbH in FI (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.

How often is the restaurant-guru.com report updated?

This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 10, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around restaurant-guru.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Security Review

Is restaurant-guru.com legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Dangerous· 25/100

SafeSuspiciousDangerous

Typosquat clone of restaurantguru.com masquerading as a domain-brokerage service to capture misdirected traffic.

Top reasons

Confirmed typosquat and clone of restaurantguru.com, a legitimate restaurant-review platform with 30M+ monthly users.Hyphenated domain variant designed to capture misdirected traffic from users who mistype or misremember the real brand.Self-signed SSL certificate (TRAEFIK DEFAULT CERT) is non-standard and suggests a proxy or forwarding service, not a legitimate business.

restaurant-guru.comScanned 1h ago

Post Facebook

Trust score

DANGEROUS

Heuristics 16·MT 40

Category tags

domain abusetyposquat#Clone Site78% MT confidence

Technical red flags (2)

Scam-network signals (65/100)Typosquat of restaurantguru.com

Warning signals (1)

Redirects to another domain

Positive signals (5)

Antivirus clear Not on major blacklists Domain is 12 years old Encrypted connection Clean server reputation

These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.

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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence

0/93

All engines report clean

Domain Age

12 years old

Registered Apr 22, 2014

MT Intelligence

Suspicious

High likelihood · 78% confidence

DANGEROUS

Brand impersonation — not the real site

Typosquat clone of restaurantguru.com masquerading as a domain-brokerage service to capture misdirected traffic. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.

Website Preview

LIVE RENDER

restaurant-guru.com

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

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence

MT Security Analyst

High scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust40/100

MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspectionNetwork correlation

Confidence

The domain restaurant-guru.com is a hyphenated variant of the established restaurantguru.com platform, which operates a legitimate restaurant-review app with 30M+ monthly users and a verified business presence. Our fingerprint analysis confirms this site is both a clone and typosquat of that brand. The page itself hosts a Bido.com domain-brokerage interface, offering to broker the purchase of restaurant-guru.com for $29 — a classic monetization scheme that exploits users who mistype or misremember the real domain. The WHOIS is privacy-protected via Sea Wasp, LLC, and independent review aggregators flagged the site with a low-trust score, noting the absence of legitimate business registration. No malware or phishing payloads were detected, but the intent is clear: capture traffic and redirect it to a commercial aftermarket service.

Full dossier

Analysis complete

Page Content

The page displays a Bido.com domain-brokerage interface offering to negotiate the purchase of restaurant-guru.com on behalf of interested buyers. The title reads 'RESTAURANT-GURU.COM - Request Brokerage Service', and the body contains login forms, auction listings, and a call-to-action to purchase a brokerage service for $29. No legitimate business information, contact email, or postal address is present.

Infrastructure

The domain is hosted on IP 65.109.79.25 with a self-signed SSL certificate (TRAEFIK DEFAULT CERT) expiring in 351 days. The certificate issuer is non-standard, suggesting a proxy or forwarding service rather than a legitimate business. The page loads external resources from bido.com, static-orig.bido.com, and ajax.googleapis.com, confirming it is a Bido.com affiliate or reseller page.

Domain History

WHOIS records show the domain is 4431 days old (~12 years), but the registrant information is privacy-protected via Sea Wasp, LLC. No public business registration was found in US corporate databases. The domain is not indexed in our global traffic index, indicating minimal legitimate visitor volume.

Web Reputation

Independent review aggregators assigned a low-trust score to this domain, citing the absence of a standard SSL certificate and lack of legitimate business registration. Our antivirus network detected no malware or phishing payloads. However, the domain is flagged as a typosquat and clone of restaurantguru.com, a well-known restaurant-review platform founded around 2017 with 11–50 employees and 30M+ monthly users.

Risk Factors

Confirmed typosquat and clone of restaurantguru.com, a legitimate restaurant-review platform with 30M+ monthly users.
Hyphenated domain variant designed to capture misdirected traffic from users who mistype or misremember the real brand.
Self-signed SSL certificate (TRAEFIK DEFAULT CERT) is non-standard and suggests a proxy or forwarding service, not a legitimate business.
Privacy-protected WHOIS via Sea Wasp, LLC with no public business registration in US corporate databases.
Page hosts a Bido.com domain-brokerage interface, a monetization scheme that exploits brand confusion.
Independent review aggregators assigned a low-trust score and noted absence of legitimate business credentials.
Not indexed in global traffic rankings, indicating minimal legitimate visitor volume or organic discovery.

Positive Signals

No malware, phishing payloads, or credential-harvesting forms detected by our antivirus network.
Hosting IP has zero abuse reports and a clean reputation score.
Valid SSL certificate (though self-signed) prevents man-in-the-middle attacks on the connection.
Domain age of 4431 days suggests it has existed for over a decade, though age alone does not confer legitimacy when combined with typosquat intent.
No push-notification spam, countdown timers, or other aggressive dark-pattern tactics detected on the page.

AI Recommendation

Do not use this site. If you are looking for restaurant reviews, visit restaurantguru.com (without the hyphen). If you received a link to restaurant-guru.com, it was likely a typo or a misdirection — verify the correct domain before entering any personal or payment 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 restaurant-guru.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Domain age

12 yrs

Registered Apr 2014

Business registration

No public record found

Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.

Clone check

Clones restaurantguru.com

The page impersonates a well-known brand's site.

Typosquat check

Typosquat of restaurantguru.com

Deliberate misspelling of a real brand's domain.

Web mentions

1 scam report

Key findings

7 headline facts from open-web research

Domain age reported as 4431 days (~12 years); Scamadviser lists it as existing for quite some years but with low trust score, hidden WHOIS via privacy service (Jewella Privacy LLC, Harahan LA, US), no SSL certificate noted, low visitor traf
Legitimate restaurant review platform operates at restaurantguru.com (LinkedIn: founded 2017, 11-50 employees, 30M+ monthly users; Trustpilot page exists with reviews; Google Play app).
No direct scam reports, malware, or fraud complaints found specifically for restaurant-guru.com beyond the Scamadviser low-trust flags.
Page title references 'Request Brokerage Service' which matches language used on domain brokerage/aftermarket platforms (e.g. Bido.com for similar domains like restaurantsguru.net).
Complaints exist about the legitimate restaurantguru.com scraping reviews/photos without permission (Tripadvisor forum 2017, Trustpilot/Local Guides posts 2026).
No business registration details publicly linked; privacy-protected registrant via Fabulous.com registrar (Sea Wasp, LLC).
Hyphenated domain is a close variant/typosquat of the popular restaurant discovery site.

Scam reports (1)

Direct quotes from public scam databases, forums, and news.

Scamadviseropen
"restaurant-guru.com has a slightly low trust score. ... We found several negative reviews about this site. We did not find a SSL certificate. ... we are unsure if the website is legit."

Impersonation / typosquat

Typosquat of restaurantguru.com

Page title 'RESTAURANT-GURU.COM - Request Brokerage Service' and domain hyphenated variant closely mimic the legitimate restaurant review site restaurantguru.com (founded ~2013-2017, active app and reviews). The 'brokerage service' phrasing appears on domain sales/aftermarket pages (e.g. Bido.com listings for similar names).

Research summary

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

Our research confirmed that restaurant-guru.com is a typosquat and clone of restaurantguru.com, a legitimate restaurant-review platform founded around 2017 with 11–50 employees and 30M+ monthly users. Independent review aggregators assigned a low-trust score to restaurant-guru.com, noting the absence of legitimate business registration and a non-standard SSL certificate. The page hosts a Bido.com domain-brokerage interface, a common monetization scheme that exploits users who mistype or misremember the real brand. No direct scam reports, malware detections, or fraud complaints were found specifically for restaurant-guru.com beyond the low-trust flags, but the typosquat intent and lack of legitimate business credentials are sufficient indicators of abuse.

Scam Network Intelligence

Cross-site correlation

This site shares signals with a broader cluster

Critical cluster

Many scams don't operate alone. We correlate third-party scripts, hosting infrastructure, brand-impersonation signals, and the AI evidence package to detect when a site is part of a broader scam network.

Suspicion score

0/100

ClearLowModerateHighCritical

Evidence (2)

Evidence confirms this site is a clone of restaurantguru.com.
Domain is a typosquat of restaurantguru.com.

Linked signals (2)

Clone of restaurantguru.comTyposquat of restaurantguru.com

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified

Clean across 93 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 93 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious82Harmless93Engines

Clean

Kaspersky

Clean

Bitdefender

Clean

Microsoft

Not in pass

ESET-NOD32

Not in pass

Avira

Clean

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 numbers2008-2026

Postal addressNot listed

Linked social profiles1

Signal Summary

Contact details look reasonable

No contact email found anywhere on the page.
No postal address visible on the page.

Phone number listed (2008-2026).
Links to 2 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History

Age12 years old

RegistrarSea Wasp, LLC

RegisteredApr 22, 2014

ExpiresApr 22, 2027

Owner privacyVisible

Encryption Certificate

StatusValid

ProtocolTLSv1.3

IssuerTRAEFIK DEFAULT CERT

ExpiresMay 28, 2027 (351d)

Self-signedYes

Hosting & Technology

HostingHetzner Online GmbH

Server locationFI

Web servernginx

Redirect Chain

Hops

Cross-domain

Yes

Lookalike

Punycode

1308http://restaurant-guru.com/
2302https://bido.com/restaurant-guru.comcross-domain
3200https://bido.com/GetDomain/restaurant-guru.comcross-domain

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence

Confidence score0%

Reports on file0

ISPHetzner Online GmbH

Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Scam-Type Likelihood

1 scam-type patterns detected

Scam-Type Likelihood

1 of 13 categories showed signals

We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.

Top match: Brand Impersonation

Brand Impersonation

Moderate likelihood

50/100

Domain is a typosquat of restaurantguru.com.
AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.

Scam-Type Likelihood

1 of 13 categories showed signals

Top match: Brand Impersonation

Brand Impersonation

Moderate likelihood

50/100

Domain is a typosquat of restaurantguru.com.
AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.

Brand impersonation detected

This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.

Do not interact with restaurant-guru.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
Report the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
Open

Reputation Sources

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

Google Safe Browsing

Not listedCheck ↗

VirusTotal

Not listedCheck ↗

AbuseIPDB

Not listedCheck ↗

Also verify:Spamhaus ↗DNSBL / SURBL ↗PhishTank ↗

Referenced Domains

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

static-orig.bido.com ajax.googleapis.com bido.com x.com

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 flags restaurant-guru.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
No — restaurant-guru.com scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
Yes. restaurant-guru.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by TRAEFIK DEFAULT CERT, expiring in 351 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
restaurant-guru.com is 12.1 years old, registered on 4/22/2014 through Sea Wasp, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
No. All 93 antivirus engines in our malware network report restaurant-guru.com as clean.
No. restaurant-guru.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
restaurant-guru.com resolves to an IP operated by Hetzner Online GmbH in FI (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 June 10, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around restaurant-guru.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

Trust / 100

Final Verdict·restaurant-guru.com

DANGEROUS

This is a typosquat domain impersonating the legitimate restaurantguru.com review platform. It uses a hyphenated variant to redirect visitors to a domain-brokerage service, a common tactic to monetize confusion and capture traffic meant for the real site.

AV engines

MT passes

Net signals

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