Is sitetobuy.com safe?
http://sitetobuy.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (60 of 92 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Site To Buy is a young website-selling marketplace with vendor phishing flags and mixed customer reports of poor support and low-quality delivered sites
Site To Buy presents itself as a marketplace where visitors can 'Buy A Site' or 'Build A Site', promoted with a '$300 Off Our Services' offer and a mailing-list pop-up offering $20 store credit. The domain is only about two years old, the operator is not disclosed on the site, and the site's own contact details were not reviewed. Independent security vendors have flagged the domain with phishing and suspicious labels, and one customer complaint describes paying for a store with numerous issues and receiving no support response despite a promised 24-hour reply. Other reviewers report positive experiences, so the picture is mixed rather than uniformly negative. Because the site sells digital storefronts with no verifiable operator identity, adverse vendor flags, and credible support complaints, it sits in the Moderate Risk band rather than Safe.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 52/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 3 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Strong1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "I contacted Site To Buy for self-named access four days ago, and I have yet to receive a response. Their website promises a reply within 24 hours. I DO NOT…"
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "The Scam Detector website Validator gives sitetobuy.com a low trust score on the platform: 18.5. It signals that the business could be defined by the following…"
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe operator is not disclosed on the website, the domain is about two years old, and the site's own contact details were not reviewed.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Site To Buy presents itself as a marketplace where visitors can 'Buy A Site' or 'Build A Site', promoted with a '$300 Off Our Services' offer and a mailing-list pop-up offering $20 store credit. The domain is only about two years old, the operator is not disclosed on the site, and the site's own contact details were not reviewed. Independent security vendors have flagged the domain with phishing and suspicious labels, and one customer complaint describes paying for a store with numerous issues and receiving no support response despite a promised 24-hour reply. Other reviewers report positive experiences, so the picture is mixed rather than uniformly negative. Because the site sells digital storefronts with no verifiable operator identity, adverse vendor flags, and credible support complaints, it sits in the Moderate Risk band rather than Safe.
What the site sells and how it monetizes
The site's own page blocks advertise two core services: 'Buy A Site' and 'Build A Site'. A supplemental block promotes '$300 Off Our Services', and a pop-up offers $20 in store credit for joining a mailing list and entry into monthly free website giveaways. This is a transaction-based digital marketplace: visitors are expected to pay for pre-built stores or for site-building work.
The commercial CTA graph shows the monetization stays on the same host, with the 'Buy A Site' block as the explicit monetization point. There is no evidence of cross-domain order routing or affiliate redirects in the supplied graph, so the primary commercial risk is the transaction itself rather than a hidden redirect chain.
Adverse vendor flags and customer complaints
A saved antivirus observation records an adverse result from an independent antivirus family, naming Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Gridinsoft, and URLQuery. The detection is real but stale, so timing should be confirmed. Separately, a Scam Detector validator entry gives the domain a low trust score of 18.5 and tags it as new, suspicious, and dubious.
A customer complaint states the user contacted Site To Buy for access and received no response after four days, despite the site promising a reply within 24 hours, and warns that the company sells stores with numerous issues and leaves buyers without real-time support. This is a specific, adverse customer report about post-purchase support and delivered quality.
Counterbalancing that, a review summary reports that reviewers overwhelmingly had a great experience, praising staff professionalism, helpfulness, and responsiveness. The operator's public reputation is therefore polarized rather than uniformly negative, which is why the score is Moderate Risk rather than High Risk.
Technical checks versus operator transparency
Technical checks are clean: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. These mean no detections were observed at scan time; they do not establish that the operator or the transaction is safe.
The registrable domain is about two years old, and the operator is not disclosed on the website. The site's own contact details were not reviewed, so no conclusion can be drawn about what contact information the site does or does not list. The combination of an undisclosed operator, a young domain, and adverse vendor flags raises the risk of paying a party whose identity and accountability cannot be verified.
Why the score is 52
1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
3/ 92
detectionsSaved analysis from October 2, 2026 - stale
3 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 1
- Suspicious
- 2
- Total
- 92
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| Forcepoint ThreatSeekerMalicious | phishing |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
| URLQuerySuspicious | suspicious |
All 92 engine results
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - phishing - Malicious
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- URLQuery - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerphishing and other frauds
- BitDefenderonlineshop
- Googleshopping
- Sophosonline shopping
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
Get $20. Join our mailing list to get access to exclusive deals and gain entry to our monthly free website giveaways. Also receive $20 store credit!
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Get $20. Join our mailing list to get access to exclusive deals and gain entry to our monthly free website giveaways. Also receive $20 store credit!
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Premium Shopify Stores and Websites – Site To Buy
- Meta description
High quality digital asset marketplace. Buy domains, websites and Shopify stores from a reliable trusted marketplace.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/policies/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/policies/refund-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Premium Shopify Stores and Websites – Site To Buy
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.
What independent research found
3 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Fake Shop & Commercial Deception
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 011 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
- 02The operator is not disclosed on the website, the domain is about two years old, and the site's own contact details were not reviewed.
- 032 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "I contacted Site To Buy for self-named access four days ago, and I have yet to receive a response. Their website promises a reply within 24 hours. I DO NOT…"
Web research findings
Independent findings for sitetobuy.com, 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.
- Trustpilotopen
"I contacted Site To Buy for self-named access four days ago, and I have yet to receive a response. Their website promises a reply within 24 hours. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS COMPANY! They sell stores with numerous issues and leave you without any real-time support."
- Scam Detectoropen
"The Scam Detector website Validator gives sitetobuy.com a low trust score on the platform: 18.5. It signals that the business could be defined by the following tags: New. Suspicious. Dubious."
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The 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.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainsitetobuy.com
- Redirects tositetobuy.com
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencesfonts.shopifycdn.com · shop.app
Domain Timeline
- Nov 12, 2024Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 1.9 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 23, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for sitetobuy.com.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Chat, reviews and email
- Klaviyo
Payment providers the page loads
- Shop Pay
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://sitetobuy.com/
- 2200https://sitetobuy.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "I contacted Site To Buy for self-named access four days ago, and I have yet to receive a response. Their website promises a reply within 24 hours. I DO NOT…" · 2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "The Scam Detector website Validator gives sitetobuy.com a low trust score on the platform: 18.5. It signals that the business could be defined by the following…"
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 3 of 92 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 23, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 23, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 23, 2026 |
| Independent research | 3 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Oct 23, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result3 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 23, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 23, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 23, 2026
- Independent research
- Result3 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 23, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is sitetobuy.com a scam or is it safe?
Is sitetobuy.com safe to use?
Has sitetobuy.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is sitetobuy.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Site To Buy is a young website-selling marketplace with vendor phishing flags and mixed customer reports of poor support and low-quality delivered sites
Site To Buy presents itself as a marketplace where visitors can 'Buy A Site' or 'Build A Site', promoted with a '$300 Off Our Services' offer and a mailing-list pop-up offering $20 store credit. The domain is only about two years old, the operator is not disclosed on the site, and the site's own contact details were not reviewed. Independent security vendors have flagged the domain with phishing and suspicious labels, and one customer complaint describes paying for a store with numerous issues and receiving no support response despite a promised 24-hour reply. Other reviewers report positive experiences, so the picture is mixed rather than uniformly negative. Because the site sells digital storefronts with no verifiable operator identity, adverse vendor flags, and credible support complaints, it sits in the Moderate Risk band rather than Safe.
09 · Community
Community
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