Can Baselayer identify whether a business website is legitimate?

Website analysis is designed to separate a real, operating business website from a placeholder, an abandoned domain, or a site set up to look legitimate. The signals it evaluates:

• Domain age. A domain registered days or weeks before the application is a classic fraud indicator.

• Build status. Whether the site is active, a coming-soon or template page, or inactive.

• SSL certificate validity and whether the domain is parked.

• Email deliverability: whether the website’s domain can receive email. A business site whose domain has no mail configured is a signal worth noting.

• Contact consistency. Whether the address, phone, and email on the site match what the applicant told you.

• Presence signals. Social profiles and review listings linked to the business, and the site’s depth and breadth.