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Is tommy-waters.com legit or a scam?
Official campaign site for sitting Honolulu City Councilmember Tommy Waters on an eight-year-old domain with verified registration.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page presents standard campaign content for Tommy Waters, including his bio and donation links through ActBlue. Domain registration dates back 3030 days with a clean hosting IP and valid SSL certificate. Evidence confirms an active business registration for Friends of Tommy Waters at the listed P.O. Box and matches official city council records. No scam families, blocklist hits, or complaints were detected. The site loads expected external resources without suspicious redirects or forms.
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 tommy-waters.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain tommy-waters.com is the official campaign website for Tommy Waters, Honolulu City Council District IV member (elected 2019, Chair since 2020).
- Domain age listed as 3030 days (~8.3 years); site content confirms long-term use for his political campaign.
- Official Honolulu City Council page (honolulucitycouncil.org/district4) and Ballotpedia confirm his role and link to campaign activities.
- Campaign contact details: Friends of Tommy Waters, P.O. Box 240451, Honolulu, HI 96824; email and phone listed on site.
- 2026 news coverage (Hawaii News Now, Civil Beat) discusses his reelection bid and term-limit eligibility challenge; no scam/fraud mentions.
- Separate unrelated site tommywaters.com exists for a Florida custom home builder.
- No scam, complaint, or fraud references found in targeted searches including Reddit.
Political campaign committee 'Friends of Tommy Waters', P.O. Box 240451, Honolulu, HI 96824
Our research confirmed this is the official campaign website for Tommy Waters. No scam reports or complaints were located. Business registration for the campaign committee was verified as active.
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 phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://tommy-waters.com/
- 2200https://www.tommy-waters.com/cross-domain
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 tommy-waters.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- tommy-waters.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 86/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. tommy-waters.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 54 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- tommy-waters.com is 8.3 years old, registered on 2/18/2018 through Squarespace Domains II LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. tommy-waters.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- tommy-waters.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Technologies Inc. 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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