sterlingedgemarkets[.]com

This domain, sterlingedgemarkets.com, was registered through Dynadot LLC on 28 July 2025 and remains active as of the 12 July 2026 reporting date. DNS resolution points to the IPv4 address 188.138.39.187, which is announced by AS29066 belonging to velia.net Internetdienste GmbH and geolocated to France. The authoritative name servers are dns1.afeeshost.ltd, dns2.afeeshost.ltd, and dns3.afeeshost.ltd, and the zone publishes a single MX record that routes mail to the same domain. HTTPS is provided by a Let’s Encrypt certificate (R12) and the HTTP endpoint returns a 302 redirect. The page title reported by crawlers is “Sterling Edge-Markets- Home”. The site is classified as a crypto‑scam that impersonates the brand Aave. It appears on one security blocklist and has been blocked by PhishDestroy. VirusTotal analysis shows that two of ninety‑five scanners flagged the domain. Additional reputation services assign a Gridinsoft trust score of zero out of one hundred, indicating a high likelihood of malicious activity. The evidence confirms that the infrastructure is deliberately set up to host a high‑risk brand‑impersonation campaign. Because the domain is still operational, defenders should add the host to blocklists, monitor DNS queries for the associated A records and MX record, and enforce TLS inspection to capture the redirect. Continuous re‑scanning with multi‑engine services is recommended to detect any changes in detection rates. Attribution beyond the registrar and hosting AS is not currently available.