hotpads.com
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Business details
- Founded
- 2005
- Domain age
- 26 years
- Address
- Not foundNo address found using the trading company name
- Email address
- Not found
- Phone number
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- Website
- hotpads.com
- Social media
- Not found
Customer reviews
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Is hotpads.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 76 out of 100, high truth signals: 7 of 11 public checks clear, 1 to be cautious about, 1 not found, 2 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied.
hotpads.com's website address was registered 26 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. Be cautious: its 41 reviews on SmartCustomer average only 2.3 stars out of 5. We could not find social media profiles, an address, an email address or a phone number.
Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.
Positives
- Its website address was registered 26 years ago.
- No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.
Be cautious
- A low number of independent reviews (41 on SmartCustomer), but it falls short with only 2.3 stars out of 5.
Not found
- Social presence information was not found from our checks.
- Address information was not found from our checks.
- Email address information was not found from our checks.
- Phone number information was not found from our checks.
How to check if hotpads.com is legit
To check if hotpads.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews, visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about hotpads.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.
Who they are
Company detailsFounded in 2005 (Wikipedia)
Domain registrationIts website address was registered 26 years ago
- Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else
- Domain age
- 26 years
- Domain transfer lock enabled
- Yes
Website detailsFound: https enabled
- HTTPS enabled
- Yes
- Contact phone number found
- Not found
- Contact page found
- Not found
Reputation and track record
Customer reviewsRated 2.3 stars out of 5 from 41 reviews on SmartCustomer
| Platform | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Trustpilot | Unknown | 3 |
| SmartCustomer | 2.3 out of 5 | 41 |
| G2 | Not found | |
| Capterra | Not found | |
| Reviews.io | Not found | |
| Feefo | Not found | |
| Trustindex | Not found | |
| Not checked |
App StoreIts app, HotPads - Apartment Rentals, is on Apple's App Store, rated 4.8 out of 5 from 55 ratings. App ratings are not counted as reviews.
- App
- HotPads - Apartment Rentals
- App Store rating
- 4.8 out of 5
- App Store ratings
- 55
Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months
- Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
- It is among the 10,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)
- Popularity among Chrome users
- top 50,000 sites
- First known user traffic
- Feb 2021 or earlier
- Months with real traffic, of the last 24
- 24
- Traffic pattern
- sustained
- Rank jump in the last 12 months
- none
- Rank drop in the last 12 months
- none
- Popularity across the internet
- top 10,000 sites
Web history and authorityFound: wikipedia page
- Wikipedia page
- yes
Social presenceWe were unable to find out how big its social media following is.
nothing recorded
Safety
Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.
- Malware or phishing threat status
- None
Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company
- Known data breaches found
- 0
Domain and email securityIts email is only partly protected: mail forged in its name is reported but not blocked
- Its email identifies its real senders, but mail forged in its name is not blocked
- MX records
- Yes
- SPF record
- Yes
- DKIM key
- Yes
- DMARC record
- Yes
- DMARC policy
- none
- Security certificate browsers warn about
- No
- Certificate issuer
- DigiCert Inc
- Certificate type
- OV
- Certificate expires
- 6 Nov 2026
- Nameservers
- ns-1256.awsdns-29.org
ns-1870.awsdns-41.co.uk
ns-434.awsdns-54.com
ns-530.awsdns-02.net - Address
- 18.154.84.69
18.154.84.94
18.154.84.96
18.154.84.110