No threats detected
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Is thegrotoninn.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate 12-year-old hotel site for The Groton Inn with verified business registration and positive TripAdvisor and Yelp reviews.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as the official page for The Groton Inn, a 60-room boutique hotel and restaurant in Groton, MA. The domain is over 12 years old with valid SSL and a clean hosting IP that has zero abuse score. Our research confirms an active US business registration, consistent physical address, and matching listings on TripAdvisor, Yelp, and local tourism sites. Two positive guest reviews were found with no complaints or scam reports anywhere. No login forms, redirects, or scam-family triggers appeared in the scan.
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 thegrotoninn.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official site thegrotoninn.com for The Groton Inn boutique hotel at 128 Main Street, Groton, MA 01450 (phone 978-448-6600, email info@thegrotoninn.com)
- 60-room property opened May 2018; rebuilt after original 1678 inn destroyed by fire in 2011
- Listed on Wikipedia, TripAdvisor (#1 hotel in Groton), Booking.com, Yelp, Facebook, Instagram, local tourism sites (grotonhill.org)
- Domain registered ~12.75 years ago (4656 days); active hotel website with booking via synxis.com
- Guest reviews on TripAdvisor and Yelp describe charming, spacious rooms and good service (mixed notes on pricing/feel)
- No scam, fraud, or clone reports found across web searches including Reddit
- TripAdvisoropen
"The inn is charming, well appointed and tastefully decorated . The rooms and common areas are spacious and welcoming with local art and antiques on display."
- Yelpopen
"A completely lovely experience. Service with a smile and a top notch experience checking in. Rooms are bigger than the norm with many nice amenities including ..."
Operational 60-room boutique hotel/inn in Groton, MA; rebuilt and opened 2018 on historic 1678 site
Our research found the site listed as the official page for The Groton Inn on TripAdvisor and Yelp with two positive guest reviews. No scam reports, complaints, or clone warnings appeared in any searched sources. Business registration confirms an active 60-room hotel in Groton, MA.
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.
- Phone number listed ((978) 448-9200).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://thegrotoninn.com/
- 2200https://thegrotoninn.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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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 thegrotoninn.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- thegrotoninn.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 93/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. thegrotoninn.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 52 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- thegrotoninn.com is 12.8 years old, registered on 8/28/2013 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. thegrotoninn.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- thegrotoninn.com resolves to an IP operated by WPEngine, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). 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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