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Is shearexcellencerantoul.com legit or a scam?
Established local hair salon website in Rantoul, IL with seven-year-old domain, clean scans, and confirmed business registration.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page presents itself as a standard hair salon offering cuts, color, waxing, and spa services with a local phone number and booking form. The domain has been registered for 2612 days and shows no malicious detections from our antivirus network or browser blocklists. Our research confirms an active US business registration, an Illinois cosmetology license, a physical address, and positive mentions on review platforms. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators appear in the evidence. The combination of age, clean infrastructure, and matching real-world business records supports a safe classification.
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 shearexcellencerantoul.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain shearexcellencerantoul.com active with salon site since at least 2015 (domain age 2612 days)
- Physical location: 417 S Century Blvd, Rantoul, IL 61866; phone (217) 236-6617
- Active social media: Facebook (ShearExcellenceSalon1281, ~3060 likes), Instagram (@shearx_salon)
- Local recognition: Named Rantoul Area Chamber of Commerce New Business of the Year (WCIA 2018); certified BodiBronze Salon
- Illinois state records: Cosmetology CE sponsor license; Shear Excellence Salon Corp received PPP loan and state contracts
- Listed on Yelp, MapQuest, Fresha with services matching page title/description
- No scam, fraud, or complaint mentions in searches for domain or business name
- Yelpopen
"“I have been a client of Shear Excellence for several years and have always had excellent service first by Bridget ..."
Listed as Shear Excellence Salon Corp in Rantoul, IL; holds Illinois cosmetology/esthetics CE sponsor license #19000914; received PPP loan
Our research found no scam reports or complaints for shearexcellencerantoul.com. A positive review appears on Yelp, and Illinois state records list Shear Excellence Salon Corp as an active business with a cosmetology license and prior PPP loan. The physical address, phone, and services match the website content exactly.
Antivirus Engines
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.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed ((217) 893-3850).
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://shearexcellencerantoul.com/
- 2200https://shearexcellencerantoul.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.
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Reputation Sources
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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 shearexcellencerantoul.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- shearexcellencerantoul.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. shearexcellencerantoul.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 49 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- shearexcellencerantoul.com is 7.2 years old, registered on 4/8/2019 through Wix.com Ltd.. 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 shearexcellencerantoul.com as clean.
- No. shearexcellencerantoul.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- shearexcellencerantoul.com resolves to an IP operated by Linode 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.
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