Website reputation report

hotair.com.au

Last checked 4 days ago · Point-in-time assessment

62/100Technical Safety ScoreIndependent technical assessment, not a visitor rating
● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

Queensland, a hotspot for hot air ballooning, is where HOT AIR's daily adventures take flight over the Atherton Tablelands' Mareeba and the Gold Coast hinterland. We've had the privilege of hosting guests from across Australia and over 27 countries. We offer convenient pickups from Port Douglas, Cairns, Palm Cove, and the Gold Coast, including Surfers Paradise. For those journeying from Brisbane and the surrounding areas, or opting for a self-drive adventure, join us at one of our official meeting points

No listed local patterns observedHomepage-only analysis is not a malware clearance. Read the scope and findings below.

62/100Safety Score
65%Evidence Confidence
Trust Radar evidence profile Eight evidence dimensions from zero to one hundred. Exact values surround the chart. Threat Intelligence55 Domain History0 Infrastructure95 Website Security81 Security Hygiene55 Transparency71 Reputation50 Operational Stability85
Trust RadarEight observed factors. Select one to inspect its evidence.

How to read this report

Safety Score evaluates observed signals. Evidence Confidence measures how complete, direct, fresh, and consistent those signals are.

No automated scan can guarantee that a website is safe.

Current report context

What changed since the last scan

  • No earlier report to compare
What this scan could verify · 5 observed, 1 unavailable
DNS observed
Registration lookup unavailable Reason: stage unavailable
Network observed
TLS observed
Website response observed
Website content observed

Unavailable and unperformed checks are not clean results. The detailed evidence below remains the source for each conclusion.

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Independent evidence brief

What we observed about hotair.com.au

Updated Oct 16, 2026

The latest scan examined 10 public pages on hotair.com.au. Website descriptions below come from the site itself. Registration, connection and threat findings were checked separately.

Purpose and visible content

On its About page, the site says: Queensland, a hotspot for hot air ballooning, is where HOT AIR's daily adventures take flight over the Atherton Tablelands' Mareeba and the Gold Coast…

Registrar and domain history

A reliable creation date was not returned by the registration lookup. The report leaves domain age unverified rather than guessing.

Connection and hosting evidence

The checked homepage returned HTTP 200 in about 1000 ms.

A valid TLS certificate was observed, expiring Jan 14, 2027.

Threat checks and score context

External malware-provider coverage was unavailable. The report does not treat this missing check as a clean result.

Safety Score: 62/100. Evidence Confidence: 65%. These measure different things.

Community reviews of hotair.com.au

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Visitor experiences are separate from the independent technical Safety Score.

Visitor opinions remain separate from the technical Safety Score.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on hotair.com.au

10 of up to 10 pages

We sampled public pages from this website to understand its subject and contact paths. The titles and short descriptions below come from the website itself. They are not endorsements or independent safety findings.

Home | Hot Air Balloon AustraliaAustralia's premier hot air balloon experience. Flights in Gold Coast, Cairns, Brisbane and Port Douglas. CASA certified, 5-star rated operator. Book online today. About Hot Air & Our Team. | Hot Air Balloon Australiahttps://www.hotair.com.au/about-hot-air Our Suggestions for great things to do and see around Gold Coast Queensland | Hot Air Balloon AustraliaThere is so much to see and do on the Gold Coast. We have put together a guide of Gold Coast things to do, places to stay, places to dine and more, especially as locals ourselves, Our Suggestions for great things to do and see around Cairns | Hot Air Balloon AustraliaCairns is a warm, tropical, vibrant city, known worldwide as the gateway to the world famous Great Barrier Reef, Kuranda and the Daintree Rainforest. There so many things to do in Things to See and Do in Brisbane and Surrounds | Hot Air Balloon AustraliaBrisbane is a great city to spend your Queensland holiday.  As Queensland's capital and largest city, Brisbane constantly has a range of different home grown events and must do hol Here’s our suggestions for great things to do and see around Port Douglas | Hot Air Balloon AustraliaPort Douglas, Australia is one of those holiday places that you wish you had known about, a long time ago. “Port” as it’s known to the locals, is the spot that Cairns residents dri Hot Air Balloon Gold Coast | Best Gold Coast Hot Air Balloon RidesExperience the best hot air balloon rides on the Gold Coast with Hot Air Balloon Gold Coast™. Enjoy stunning Hinterland views, a gourmet breakfast at O'Reilly's Canungra Valley Vin Hot Air Balloon Cairns - Cairns Hot Air Ballooning ExpertsIf you've always wanted to one day, fly in a hot air balloon, Cairns is the best place, for both weather and price. Book instant tickets online with Hot Air Balloon Cairns, Austral Hot Air Brisbane - Best Brisbane Hot Air Balloon RidesOfficial Site of Hot Air Balloon Brisbane, offers instant online tickets and gift vouchers. Book your Vineyard Champagne breakfast with a Brisbane hot air balloon ride, with or wit Port Douglas Hot Air Balloon Experts Hot Air Port DouglasBook your Port Douglas hot air balloon ride online today with Hot Air Port Douglas. We offer the experience of hot air ballooning from Port Douglas with the best hot air balloons a

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on hotair.com.au

12 phrases

These phrases were extracted locally from sampled public page metadata. They are observations, not search-volume or ranking estimates.

hot air balloonTitle, Meta description10 sampled pages
things toTitle, H1, Meta description4 sampled pages
to doTitle, H1, Meta description3 sampled pages
balloon australiaTitle6 sampled pages
port douglasTitle, H1, Meta description3 sampled pages
greatTitle, H1, Meta description4 sampled pages
great thingsTitle, H13 sampled pages
see aroundTitle, H13 sampled pages
gold coastTitle, H1, Meta description3 sampled pages
cairnsTitle, H1, Meta description4 sampled pages
suggestionsTitle, H13 sampled pages
brisbaneTitle, H1, Meta description3 sampled pages

At a glance

Key findings

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Report is current

The displayed evidence comes from the published immutable scan.

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Confidence is separate

Unavailable evidence is shown as missing and never counted as clean.

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Fully explainable

Why this score?

Versioned weights
Threat IntelligenceWeight 25%
55/100

Threat providers were unavailable. The neutral uncertainty baseline is not a clean verdict.

Domain HistoryWeight 10%
0/100

Evidence is unavailable.

InfrastructureWeight 10%
95/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
81/100

Observed certificate validity and TLS protocol were checked.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
55/100

Observed security header values were checked for basic protective settings. Empty values, disabled HSTS and unrecognized values receive no credit. This is not a complete browser-policy validation.

TransparencyWeight 5%
71/100

Observed site metadata and About page were checked. Publisher-supplied details are not independently verified.

ReputationWeight 5%
50/100

Popularity is weak context, not proof of safety. Unranked sites use a neutral baseline.

Operational StabilityWeight 15%
85/100

Observed HTTP status and final connection scheme were checked.

Server-side analysis

Automated security checks

Local antivirus and phishing checks

ClamAV · homepage HTMLNo signature match in the sampled HTML
Engine version1.5.4
Signature database date (UTC)2026-10-16T06:24:17+00:00
HTML bytes submitted102,202
Phishing.Database · exact hostnameNot listed in this snapshot
Feed downloaded (UTC)2026-10-16T12:00:07+00:00
Hosts in local snapshot386,082

Sampled scripts and pages

Resource analysis incomplete

6 resources checked · 36 script links observed on the homepage. Partial resource coverage.

ClamAV inspects the fetched homepage HTML on our server. New scans also sample up to four linked scripts and two collected internal pages, with size and time limits. Scripts are not executed. Other downloads, private server files and logged-in pages remain outside this check. A signature match needs investigation and can be a false positive. No match is not a whole-site safety guarantee.

Exact hostname lookup uses a downloaded Phishing.Database snapshot. It does not send this domain to an external lookup API or mark sibling subdomains as harmful. Not listed does not mean safe. Snapshot age is download age, not proof that every entry was recently revalidated.

Homepage HTML only · Eight local rule families · local-security-v2

Checks use the fetched page and redirect chain. Scripts are not executed, forms are not submitted, and linked files are not downloaded. This is not a malware clearance.

Page resource inventory

Linked scripts36
Inline scripts10
Embedded frames1
External script hosts3

Counts describe the sampled HTML, not every resource loaded by the browser. External resources are common and are not automatically harmful.

No listed local patterns observed. The limited rule set cannot detect every threat or behavior.

External threat intelligence

Provider coverageNot checked

Local checks do not query external reputation databases. An unavailable check is never a clean result.

Registration

Domain information

Public RDAP observation
Canonical domainhotair.com.au
RegistrarUnavailable
RegisteredUnavailable
Domain ageUnavailable
ExpiresUnavailable
Registry statusesUnavailable
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address104.20.39.231
Autonomous systemUnavailable
Network organizationUnavailable
Observed countryUnavailable
CDNCloudflare
Web application firewallNot detected

At a glance

Infrastructure summary

Observed during this scan

A compact view of the connection, DNS and security surface. These observations describe what the scanner could verify at scan time and do not prove ownership or ongoing availability.

HTTP response200 · https://www.hotair.com.au/
Endpoint104.20.39.231
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFCloudflare · Not detected
DNS surface21 records · 2 nameservers · 7 mail exchangers
Protection signals2 security headers · 4 technologies · DNSSEC unknown

Page telemetry

Observed page statistics

Safe metadata only

These counters describe the fetched response and sampled HTML. Script counts describe references in the markup, not a complete browser network log. Cookie counts cover observed response headers.

Response size102,202 bytes
HTTP check duration1,000 ms
Cookies observedUnavailable
Script resources36 · 3 external hosts
Frames and sampled checks1 frames · 6 resources checked

Encrypted transport

TLS certificate

Valid when observed
StatusValid when observed
ProtocolTLSv1.2
IssuercountryName=US, organizationName=Google Trust Services, commonName=WE1
Valid fromOct 16, 2026
Valid untilJan 14, 2027
Certificate names*.wind.hotair.com.au · hotair.com.au · wind.hotair.com.au

Resolution

DNS footprint

DNSKEY status unknown

DNSKEY presence does not verify the DNSSEC signature chain. Missing records can mean no record was returned or the lookup was unavailable.

A104.20.39.231TTL —
A172.66.171.157TTL —
AAAA2606:4700:10::6814:27e7TTL —
AAAA2606:4700:10::ac42:ab9dTTL —
NSjean.ns.cloudflare.comTTL —
NSmatt.ns.cloudflare.comTTL —
MX1 aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX10 aspmx2.googlemail.comTTL —
MX10 aspmx3.googlemail.comTTL —
MX10 aspmx4.googlemail.comTTL —
MX10 aspmx5.googlemail.comTTL —
MX5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
TXT1bb490a8-fcb1-4613-932c-2f4ae0f26b29TTL —
TXTbrevo-code:0f49e4af01de9d880f6643c28a2ccbbfTTL —
TXTfacebook-domain-verification=tq6k71tpp3tnqfv09vf4ltn4pr27mxTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=TrSUJN3TBvPkWcWIO25EoSQUmY6VZUK-7FTSDH2B2cwTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=ZrLZDanFwA79xMGaR-t9q7w0nWRiIulVcNoFRzE3KA0TTL —
TXTMS=47209BE4C45A3A7F86A52F6074B980AFA53B6702TTL —
TXTv=spf1 ip4:52.62.78.112 ip4:52.65.162.122 ip4:3.225.161.160 ip4:54.206.42.24 include:spf.autopilothq.com include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com -allTTL —
TXTzoho-verification=zb78399106.zmverify.zoho.comTTL —

DNS observations · no external lookup API

Domain email protection

Exact-host SPF and DMARC observations help the owner investigate email impersonation risks. They are separate from website malware checks and do not change the Safety Score.

SPFPolicy record observed, not fully validated
DMARCMonitoring-only DMARC policy

What to do next

Review the records with your mail administrator. Inventory legitimate senders and test SPF and DKIM alignment before enforcing a stricter DMARC policy. Fix duplicate records and investigate overly permissive SPF rules.

This bounded check does not send email, probe SMTP, evaluate recursive SPF includes, verify DKIM signatures or apply organizational-domain DMARC inheritance. A missing subdomain record does not prove that no inherited protection exists. A DNS timeout is unknown, not an absent record. A policy record is not proof that messages authenticate successfully.

Responsible disclosure

security.txt

RFC 9116 observation

No readable security.txt file was observed at the standard locations. This is informational and is not evidence of malware.

Browser protections

Security headers

2 observed
x-content-type-optionspresent nosniff
x-frame-optionspresent SAMEORIGIN

Response headers

Cookie protections

Passive observation

No Set-Cookie header was observed on the sampled homepage response. Other pages may set cookies separately.

Detected stack

Technologies

Bootstrap 80% Cloudflare 98% Google Analytics 94% Google Tag Manager 96%

Versions are shown only when publicly exposed by the page or response headers. An observed version is not, by itself, proof of a vulnerability.

JavaScript library advisories

JavaScript advisory analysis could not be completed or no eligible script files were sampled. No clean result is implied.

About this website

What the site says about itself

Queensland, a hotspot for hot air ballooning, is where HOT AIR's daily adventures take flight over the Atherton Tablelands' Mareeba and the Gold Coast hinterland. We've had the privilege of hosting guests from across Australia and over 27 countries. We offer convenient pickups from Port Douglas, Cairns, Palm Cove, and the Gold Coast, including Surfers Paradise. For those journeying from Brisbane and the surrounding areas, or opting for a self-drive adventure, join us at one of our official meeting points for a morning immersed in the exceptional world of hot air ballooning.

View the site's About page ↗

This is publisher supplied information. The independent safety findings are shown separately.

Publisher supplied

Public contact details

These details were observed on the website, not independently verified as an active support channel.

Phone0740399900Source: https://www.hotair.com.au/
Phone2061756361508Source: https://www.hotair.com.au/

Structured facts

Website identity & response

Public page metadata
Page titleHome | Hot Air Balloon Australia
First headingExplore Gold Coast flights
DescriptionAustralia's premier hot air balloon experience. Flights in Gold Coast, Cairns, Brisbane and Port Douglas. CASA certified, 5-star rated operator. Book online today.
Canonical URLhttps://www.hotair.com.au/
Final URLhttps://www.hotair.com.au/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=UTF-8 · 1000 ms
Languageen
Structured typesOrganization
Page page detectedhttps://www.hotair.com.au/port-douglas/destination-guideAbout page detectedhttps://www.hotair.com.au/about-hot-air
missing100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
en100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions policy present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.hsts present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors wildcard origin100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors credentials with wildcard100% evidence confidence
21100% evidence confidence
2100% evidence confidence
7100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
4100% evidence confidence

Connection path

Redirect chain

1 recorded hops
Hop 1https://www.hotair.com.au/

The chain is shown exactly as observed by the scanner. A redirect is not itself a malware finding, but unexpected domains or an HTTP downgrade deserve review.

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Compared with the previous scan

What changed

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Explainable matching

Digital fingerprint

fingerprint-v1
deep-harbor-web-762

Comparable components help find technically related websites. A match does not prove common ownership.

DnsHashed private comparison value
TechnologiesHashed private comparison value

Material changes only

Change history

Show change history

No meaningful changes recorded yet.

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Visual evidence

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Questions about hotair.com.au

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Is hotair.com.au safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 62/100 with 65% Evidence Confidence. This is a point-in-time assessment of observed technical signals, not a guarantee. Check the exact address and avoid entering payment details if anything looks unusual.

Did the scan detect malware on hotair.com.au?

ClamAV found no signature match in the sampled homepage HTML. External scripts, downloads and private server files were not checked. This is not a whole-site malware clearance.

When was hotair.com.au registered?

The registry lookup did not provide a reliable creation date in this scan.

Did hotair.com.au have a valid TLS certificate?

The scanner observed a valid TLS certificate using TLSv1.2. A valid certificate alone does not establish that the site is safe.

How does hotair.com.au describe itself?

The website's About page describes its purpose in the report above. This is publisher-supplied information and is separate from independent security findings.

Can a paid listing change this website's score?

No. Premium placement and owner-supplied pages are labelled separately. Technical evidence, the Safety Score and moderation decisions remain independent.

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