Trust.Zone VPN Review: Is It Safe and Secure?

For me, the #1 criterion when choosing a VPN is privacy, or if you want, security. A provider must not store any logs, it must provide essential security features, and finally, it must be based in a privacy-friendly jurisdiction, preferably an off-shore country. In this Trust.Zone review for 2024, I can tell you this provider seemingly ticks all the boxes. Sure, it’s an old-school-looking provider, with a website that won’t make you jump in excitement, but its Seychelles-based company indeed promises a lot.

Trust.Zone promises to “make you invisible and keep you anonymous” through the use of various security features as well as a no-logging policy. In addition, it prides itself on being affordable, all while keeping its performance on a satisfying level.

No doubt, this Trust.Zone VPN test will be pretty interesting because we’re talking about a reasonably obscure VPN. I mean, if you aren’t an experienced user, you’ve most likely heard about NordVPN or ExpressVPN but Trust.Zone slipped under your radar.

That will change today, as we’re going to review this service, talk about its security, privacy, and overall performance, and see if it’s worth your money. Before you ask, this IS a premium service but I used its 3-day free test period, which was enough for a full review.

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Trust.Zone VPN User Experience & Device Support

For a provider that isn’t particularly popular or expensive, Trust.Zone VPN definitely has solid device compatibility. However, it’s lacking in the final polish and bringing the user experience to the top level, as is the case with NordVPN, CyberGhost, and ExpressVPN.

Still, Trust.Zone supports lots of platforms and devices, which you can see by clicking on the “Setup VPN” menu on the site. Needless to say, you can install it on Windows, Android, macOS, iOS, and even Linux. Interestingly, the provider will also work on Windows XP!

When it comes to Linux support, you don’t get as many distros. At the time of writing this review, Trust.Zone VPN will work on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Manjaro, with no support for Arch and other popular distros.

Trust.Zone also offers browser extensions but they aren’t great because they’re not full-fledged VPN apps. Instead, we’re talking about proxy extensions that I didn’t find all that useful. In terms of simultaneous connections, we’re talking about very small numbers – three to five.

For me, this is very low, as five is an industry-standard nowadays. In fact, my recent review of Hide.me VPN showed that this provider offers 10 simultaneous connections, while Surfshark has unlimited connections per account, which is even better.

Desktop and Mobile Apps

Let’s talk about the user experience now in this Trust.Zone VPN analysis. I’ll be honest – the provider isn’t particularly polished and it doesn’t have that premium feel, regardless of the platform you’re on. For your information, I’m using it on Windows and it looks like this:

The app comes in the form of a small window with all the servers and locations displayed on the home screen. Right there, you can see that even the server list isn’t very intuitive, although you can switch the view to see only countries and locations, which I found better.

To connect to a server, simply double-click on the location, and in a few seconds, you’ll be connected. Connection times are a bit longer than expected but overall, the provider works well on Windows and I very rarely had any connection issues with it.

Clicking on the Status menu, you can see the status of your connection. It allows you to see the port that you’re using, your subscription details, and a few other details. The final menu here is Settings and when you open it, you’ll just how bare-bones Trust.Zone VPN is.

You can enable or disable a VPN kill switch here or simply change the port. If you want, you can also change some of the behavior of the app and that’s all. Trust.Zone VPN’s simplicity stems from the fact that it’s not feature-rich, so we can’t deem it a good thing completely.

But what about its mobile apps? Believe it or not, its mobile apps are identical to their desktop counterparts, which is both good and bad. Good because you’ll quickly get used to them and bad because you won’t get any features – not even a kill switch!

Overall, I’m all but impressed with the user experience and since the app hasn’t undergone any changes in the last couple of years, I think it’s time to do a little overhaul and modernize it a lot more.

TV Apps

If you’re a fan of streaming and you value this particular benefit of a VPN, at least in terms of device compatibility, it’ll be great. For one, it supports a myriad of streaming devices, including Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Smart TVs in general.

I’m impressed that it actually has a native Android TV app. This means you can visit Google Play and download it without any issues. What’s more, in this Trust.Zone VPN review, I found that it also works on Nvidia Shield TV, which isn’t strange considering it uses Android.

Most notably, Fire TV Stick support is here but with a caveat. It doesn’t have a native client, so you’ll have to go through the manual setup, which is thoroughly explained on the site. Basically, you’ll utilize the OpenVPN app and select a server from Trust.Zone through it.

The setup isn’t very complex and I found that, despite not offering a native Fire TV Stick VPN app, it still works properly this way. That said, using this provider is possible if you’re a TV user and you can find more setup information on its site.

Gaming Apps

Now, you wouldn’t expect a provider like Trust.Zone to be capable of gaming outside of your Windows PC. Well, you’d be wrong because Trust.Zone VPN indeed supports gaming consoles! You can use it on your PlayStation or Xbox consoles by utilizing a router connection.

However, Trust.Zone VPN encourages you to use an easier method and simply share your VPN connection wirelessly through your Windows or Mac computer. This way, you’ll just enable WiFi on your console, connect to a VPN, and enjoy all of its benefits.

I found that using this method was much easier and I didn’t have to go through the complex VPN installation on my router. Thus, if you need a VPN for playing online games on your console, know that this one will work, although it’s not the best choice.

Router Support

Router support in this Trust.Zone VPN test for 2024 was also great. On its site, you will notice that it supports DD-WRT, Roqos Core VPN Router, Tomato, and Asus Merlin. This is excellent router support, especially because it will work with DD-WRT.

On routers, Trust.Zone uses only OpenVPN and there’s a step-by-step setup guide for each of the aforementioned routers. This allows you to set up and install a VPN fairly quickly provided that you have a supported router or firmware.

If not, you can always flash your router and install DD-WRT. But if you’re a beginner, I strongly advise against doing that. Not only can you void your warranty but you can also brick your router, rendering it useless.

Is Trust.Zone VPN Safe & Secure? All Security Features Examined

Knowing that Trust.Zone VPN is based in Seychelles, so it’s not hard to see that it’s a reputable VPN for privacy. However, privacy is one thing and security is another, so let’s see if the provider is secure enough in terms of security features you get within the app.

AES-256 Encryption

Starting this security analysis, we should talk about the level of encryption you get. As expected, Trust.Zone is on its A-game here, providing so-called military-grade encryption, which means 256-bit AES encryption used by hundreds of premium and free providers globally.

This is the strongest encryption currently available and it’s used by governments and the military to safeguard their sensitive data. With Trust.Zone VPN, you get it as soon as you connect to the server, which ensures no one can track you online or follow in your digital footprints.

Kill Switch

A kill switch is one of the most important features for online security. It’ll shut down all traffic if the VPN connection is lost, which makes you go offline but also saves you from exposing your IP address. Trust.Zone VPN is relatively stable and I had no bigger connection issues.

However, I did experience two disconnects during my review, in which case, the kill switch acted immediately and blocked my connection to preserve my privacy. Thus, I can confidently say it’ll work reliably and with great haste.

DNS Leak Protection & Trust.Zone DNS

Trust.Zone offers DNS leak protection, which is extremely important for preventing your ISP or hackers from finding out your IP address. This feature is easily enabled through Settings and it won’t have any impact on the overall performance, so I recommend keeping it ON.

To make sure you’re browsing the web safely, you can also connect to its proprietary DNS servers. They’ll eliminate the third-party DNS influence and route your traffic through them, which ensures that you aren’t tracked and spied on by Google or any DNS-owning company.

On the site, you can find Trust.Zone DNS servers – there are two of them:

• Primary DNS – 109.236.87.2
• Secondary DNS – 23.237.56.98

You can’t connect to them through the app. Instead, you’ll need to download the OpenVPN client and enter one of these addresses there.

WireGuard/OpenVPN Support

Speaking of the manual setup, Trust.Zone makes your life a bit complicated when it comes to selecting a protocol. In the app, you’ll find the option to select a VPN port that corresponds to the protocol that you’ll use.

For example, port 21 is FTP, while 1194 is OpenVPN. Ports 80 and 443 are for HTTP/HTTPS proxies, while port 22 is here for SFTP, SCP, and SSH. Basically, all you can use in the app boils down to OpenVPN. Other protocols can be used manually.

Once again, on the website, you’ll find manual setup files for L2Tp/IPSec, IKEv2, and WireGuard. In addition, Trust.Zone also offers a SOCKS5 proxy, which is great if you want to download torrents anonymously and gain a bit of a speed boost.

Trust.Zone IP and DNS Leak Test: No IP/DNS Leaks Found

Admittedly, Trust.Zone isn’t very feature-rich, although you get a solid selection of protocols. It lacks features like an ad-blocker or even split tunneling. This, however, doesn’t prevent it from being safe and secure and not having any leaks.

To prove what I said, I connected to a server in the US and went to two IP-checking sites. One of them is ipleak.net powered by AirVPN where you can see that the results are flawless.

The screenshot above shows my IP and DNS addresses from the US and I’m located in Eastern Europe. This means my true IP is concealed and I’m anonymous online. The second website I visited was browserleaks.com.

In another screenshot I placed, the results are the same. None of my DNS/IP addresses were exposed, making me completely anonymous. I also got the same result when I intentionally disabled DNS leak protection in the app, which goes to show how secure Trust.Zone is.

Does It Have a No-Logging Policy?

At the start of my Trust.Zone VPN review for 2024, I praised the provider’s focus on privacy. Indeed, this is the case, as we’re talking about a company with headquarters in Seychelles. Seychelles is a well-known off-shore location we all dream of visiting during hot summer days.

Aside from being blazing-hot 24/7/365, the country isn’t under the jurisdiction of the 5 Eyes, so it has no data-retention laws that could jeopardize your privacy. That’s why Trust.Zone can effortlessly maintain a no-logging policy and be a completely sovereign VPN company.

Which Information Isn’t Stored?

Let’s talk about its privacy policy now. I mean, it’s very short and to the point, so you don’t have to go the extra mile to see what the provider stores and what it doesn’t store. As you can expect, Trust.Zone keeps no logs whatsoever, so the following information isn’t stored:

• IP and DNS address
• Browsing history
• Visited websites
• DNS requests
• Geolocation
• Connection timestamps, etc…

To put it simply, the provider collects ZERO information about anything even remotely connected to your online activities, which means you’re 100% secure online when using it. This will be great if you’re using a VPN for Tor and consequently, going on the dark web in complete confidentiality.

Which Information Is Stored?

The information that Trust.Zone VPN stores are almost non-existent. We know that your email is stored, which is necessary for your subscription to work. And… well… that’s it. The provider uses cookies, of course, but they’re used to track your activities on the VPN’s website.

All your browsing activities outside of the site are anonymous, so you can rest assured Trust.Zone has your back in times of government surveillance and severe lack of privacy.

Trust.Zone VPN for Streaming: Streaming Platforms TESTED

Trust.Zone’s promises go far beyond privacy and security. And while I appreciate its honesty in this regard, its claims about allowing you to unblock any site and circumvent geo-blocks aren’t all that honest. Is Trust.Zone VPN good for streaming?

Well, it depends on what you’re going to unblock. If we’re talking about popular streaming services, you won’t be very lucky in most instances. The popular services from the US aren’t going to work in most cases, at least not without excessive tweaking and changing protocols.

However, an average user will want to be able to connect to a server and enjoy streaming effortlessly, as it’s the case with ExpressVPN or CyberGhost. Sadly, the provider is extremely unreliable and you’ll find yourself staring at proxy messages or simply be locked out of the website you’re trying to unblock.

I’ll admit that I had more luck with some TV channels. I watched some UK TV channels abroad, for example, while the most prominent US TV channels didn’t work in most cases. Less popular European TV channels worked and I had no issues with them.

Even though betting sites don’t belong to this category, they actually worked well too. Albeit, betting sites aren’t very hard to unblock, so Trust.Zone didn’t impress me. For streaming, you can find much better services that are more reliable because this one isn’t working properly most of the time.

I recommend ExpressVPN and its 3,000+ streaming-optimized servers with 10 Gbps speeds. You can also check out CyberGhost with special streaming servers for unblocking a variety of TV channels and streaming services no matter where you are.

Speed Tests: Here’s How Fast Trust.Zone VPN Really Is

If you’re thinking about how fast this provider is, this is quite an important part of the Trust.Zone VPN review for 2024. The provider doesn’t have thousands of servers, which should mean it’s easier to overcrowd, and thus, reduce its performance and speeds.

But, in this test, we’ll see exactly how fast it is for day-to-day use in different conditions. Starting off this part of the review, let’s talk about my location and native speeds. I’m from Europe and my native internet speeds when not using a VPN are the following:

From here, we need to clarify the testing parameters. I used Trust.Zone for 3 days, so I did my testing all 3 days in a row, 3 times a day, using 4 server locations – the UK, the US, South Africa, and Singapore. This ensured I covered both near and distant servers.

It’s also good to mention that I didn’t tweak any settings for this test. Instead, I opened the app, connected to a server, and went to Speedtest.net to perform my testing. In doing so, I made sure I got real-world results, as most users won’t bother manually setting up a protocol or any other settings.

UK:

US:

South Africa:

Singapore:

In the speed test results you see above, you can see that Trust.Zone performs relatively well. For me, the best performance was the server in the UK, albeit, the US server showed a larger speed reduction and increase in latency.

The South African server made the situation worse in terms of latency, while the Singaporean server decreased my latency and speeds a bit more. For a provider with a small server fleet, Trust.Zone VPN performs well, but to be honest, it’s far from being a good performer on a grand scale.

Once again, I recommend reading my review of ExpressVPN as it is the fastest provider on the market. This, I think, will be your best choice if you value extremely fast speeds and network stability, none of which will be achieved by using Trust.Zone.

Is Trust.Zone VPN Good for Gaming?

We can say that Trust.Zone VPN is good for gaming in terms of device support. It will work on gaming consoles and you can always use it on desktop/mobile platforms to play games online. Is it going to be fast and provide a low-ping gaming experience?

Well, to an extent. If you use servers near you or in your country, you won’t have any problems. The ping will be low and you can play games smoothly without a hint of speed reduction. Using servers overseas, which many people will want for gaming, will yield noticeable reductions.

Latency, in particular, will plague your gaming session, and while the speed reduction won’t be that alarming, latency is what kills gaming. This is especially prevalent in fast-paced games where it’s almost impossible to get a kill properly.

Not to mention cloud gaming that’s a complete disaster. Due to very high input lag on PlayStation Now and Xbox Cloud Gaming, playing anything faster than chess will be problematic. But hey, a cheap and non-popular provider like this isn’t a gaming powerhouse and that’s to be expected.

Can I Use Trust.Zone VPN for P2P and Torrenting?

But what about torrenting? If Trust.Zone isn’t the best for gaming, at least it should be good for P2P transfers. Actually, being a premium service, you can expect it to be somewhat decent in this regard, as it puts no limits on bandwidth, allowing you to download torrents endlessly.

On top of that, it is P2P-friendly, so you don’t have to cherry-pick servers and tinker around with settings to get it to work properly. You just have to connect to the closest possible server, visit a torrent site, download a torrent file, and open it in your torrent client.

As you can see, I used a server in Bulgaria because it’s very close to my country and I had no issues downloading Linux Mint. Bear in mind that this is a copyright-free OS, which means it’s safe to download without any repercussions.

In this Trust.Zone VPN review, the provider displayed decent torrenting performance with no noticeable speed reductions. However, I noticed that my upload speeds weren’t great, and in some instances, the upload speeds stayed at 0 b/s for some reason.

However, if you’re not looking to be a seeder and you just want to download a torrent file, Trust.Zone will do a decent enough job. Since every server is torrent-friendly, it’s also easy to use, with no fear of being blocked by torrent sites.

Is It Working in China & Other Censored Countries?

Circumventing censorship in countries like Iran and China has become increasingly hard in 2024. Many VPNs, including a great VPN like CyberGhost, still fail to bypass the Great Firewall of China. We also have many providers like ExpressVPN or NordVPN that work reliably.

That’s because of obfuscation which masks your VPN traffic and fools the firewall into seeing it as ordinary traffic. Obfuscation is the #1 tool for bypassing censorship and in my Trust.Zone VPN test, I found no traces of it on the website.

Moreover, the provider doesn’t have any advanced protocols, Stealth VPN, or any similar feature for this purpose. And before you know it, I’ve sent my subscription to a friend in China who tested Trust.Zone and reported what I already expected – it isn’t working at all!

No matter what he tried, the provider wouldn’t connect, despite manually setting up OpenVPN and IKEv2 protocols that should work. Any attempt to connect to a server was met with unsuccess, which makes it easy to conclude that the provider will not work in China.

The same applies to censorship in Iran, which Trust.Zone also couldn’t bypass. On the brighter side, it will work in Russia, Turkey, and the UAE, so if you find yourself in these countries, know that you can rely on it to provide decent performance and security.

Servers and Server Locations

The thing that disappointed me during this review was the server fleet of Trust.Zone VPN. Don’t forget that we’re talking about a premium provider, once again, and this very VPN has just around 173 servers in 91 zones all over the world.

Notice that I said zones because the provider says the same on its site. But in reality, you don’t get 91 countries. You get around 35+ countries and 94 locations, mostly in the US, the UK, and Australia. the server number is critically small and I won’t comment on it too much.

The server distribution is “okay” as you get servers in pretty much every popular country. Aside from the locations I mentioned, Trust.Zone VPN is present in Russia, Ukraine, and even India and Hong Kong. You also get some Netflix-optimized servers which, for the most part, aren’t working.

Netflix servers are located in Israel, the US, and a few other countries, but during my review, I couldn’t unblock these libraries either way. Overall, the server distribution isn’t bad but the fact that Trust.Zone packs just 173 worldwide servers is discouraging.

On top of that, we don’t know if these are RAM-based servers but I do know that they don’t offer 10 Gbps speeds – at least not all of them. And if I can mention one tiny nitpick, it’s the fact that I would love to see servers in Argentina and a few more Asian countries.

Customer Support: How to Contact Trust.Zone?

The customer support of Trust.Zone is far from being commendable or particularly great. As you might’ve expected, the provider isn’t available 24/7 through live chat, so getting help if you’re stuck can lead to many hours of waiting – sometimes days.

Instead of live chat support, the company is available through email, which is realized through the ticketing system on the site. You’ll just need to choose Support and you’ll be given the option to enter your email and subject, select the department, and type in your message.

Beware that support isn’t available every day and Trust.Zone works from Monday to Friday, from 7 AM to 5 PM. Thus, if you get stuck during the weekend, you’ll have to wait until Monday to get your problem resolved – quite disappointing.

On the good side, FAQs and guides are available all over the website, and in many cases, you’ll be able to get help using only these methods. Just search for your problem and the provider will most likely have a solution lying somewhere on the website.

Finally, you can also find a Blog section, which is surprisingly active and frequently updated. This will allow you to stay in touch with some interesting news and topics, as well as upgrade your VPN-related knowledge by reading through its articles.

Trust.Zone VPN Pricing Review

If you’re looking for an affordable VPN, Trust.Zone surely isn’t going to cost you a fortune. It is an affordable provider and although it’s not as great as CyberGhost, which is still cheaper, it has some interesting things worth mentioning in this regard.

The pricing of Trust.Zone is shown above and you can see several subscription plans displayed in Euros. We’ll convert them to dollars for you. The monthly plan is around $11, which is okay and is actually the average price for a monthly VPN plan.

The most interesting plan is the longest one, of course, which will cost you around $2.5 a month or around $56 for 2 years. This plan offers 5 simultaneous connections, for example, and is a special discounted offer by Trust.Zone VPN.

Even the annual plan is relatively interesting at around $3.5 a month or around $42 every year. However, this plan has 3 simultaneous connections, which might be too low if you’re using more than one computer or mobile phone, for instance.

I like that Trust.Zone offers a free 3-day test, albeit, with 1 connection per account and a 1 GB bandwidth cap. It requires only a new account, after which, you can download the app for free and use it without paying anything for 3 days.

The provider offers several add-ons as well. You can get 3 more simultaneous connections at under $1 a month, DDoS protection for under $1 a month, or even a dedicated static IP address with port forwarding. The price of the static IP depends on its location.

You’ll find that the most expensive dedicated IP is in Australia at around $6 a month with the cheapest one in the US and Germany at under $3.5 a month. Port forwarding adds another variable and here, you can’t choose Australia but you can get a dedicated static IP at $3/mo in the US.

Available Payment Methods

In this Trust.Zone VPN analysis for 2024, I was pleasantly surprised to see that it offers plenty of payment methods. Aside from credit/debit cards, it supports Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies plus PayPal and PayPro Global.

If you’re using Bitcoin or crypto, you’ll pay a 10% cheaper price and I like that.

How to Get a Refund from Trust.Zone

If you’re dissatisfied and you’d like to get a refund, you should know a few things. The first one is that there’s a 10-day refund policy for premium plans and the other one is that you can get a refund simply by contacting the support team as I described earlier.

However, getting a refund is possible only if you didn’t consume more than 1 GB of bandwidth during these 10 days, which is a bit confusing. If you actively use Trust.Zone VPN for 10 days, chances are that you’re going to spend significantly more than 1 GB of bandwidth, so most likely, you’ll not be refunded.

Although, in its Terms of Service, the company says that only in “exceptional cases”, you’ll be able to get a partial refund after spending 1 GB of bandwidth. Either way, the refund policy isn’t the most consumer-friendly as is the case with ExpressVPN or CyberGhost.

What We Don’t Like About Trust.Zone VPN

As we slowly approach the end of this Trust.Zone VPN review, I think it’s time to talk about the things we don’t like about it. First of all, we don’t like the overall user experience and its apps that feel a bit unfinished, accompanied by the need for manual setups for protocols and advanced settings.

While Trust.Zone supports a lot of platforms, we’d like to see native support for Fire TV Stick and more feature-rich apps. Speaking of which, the service lacks split tunneling, which we don’t like, and to use WireGuard, you have to download config files and implement them manually.

In addition, Trust.Zone has average streaming capabilities and in most cases, it won’t work with popular streaming services. This is further exacerbated by average performance, putting it far below the likes of NordVPN or ExpressVPN.

We also don’t like its customer support. It’s not available 24/7 and doesn’t work on weekends, making the process of getting help more complicated. Finally, its refund policy is a bit “flimsy” and if you consume over 1 GB of bandwidth in 10 days, getting a full refund is impossible.

How Do Other People Rate Trust.Zone

We said that Trust.Zone isn’t a particularly popular provider and that is reflected in its online reviews. When searching for other people’s opinions about this service, we found that there are only a few opinions online. For example, we went to Trustpilot first.

Here, Trust.Zone has 4 reviews in total, out of which, 3 reviews are 5 stars and only one review is 1-star feedback. On average, Trust.Zone got 3.6 stars, with users praising its affordable prices and security, while this 1-star reviewer, strangely, complained about anonymity.

On the Apple Store, the provider has 3.3 out of 5 stars and recent reviews show us that users are generally satisfied. They say that Trust.Zone is secure, works great, and is reliable. Those that complain usually mention the app not working at all, which seems to have been a certain bug from the past.

If we search for Trust.Zone VPN on Google, we’ll see that it has 2.8 stars on Google Play. Yet, when I visit its Google Play page, I can’t access the reviews. It’s worth mentioning that the app has 50,000+ downloads and 330+ votes.

Yet, with 2.8 stars, it seems like users aren’t very satisfied. It could be due to the glitch that plagued its iOS app or something else. Either way, ExpressVPN has 4.3 stars out of 324,000 reviews, so it’s a much better VPN for your Android phone or tablet.

Conclusion: Very Secure, But Lacking in Features

Concluding this Trust.Zone VPN review for 2024, we can’t say we’ve had an overly bad experience with it. The provider is based in one of the most privacy-friendly jurisdictions and has a clear no-logging policy, which makes it a very good choice for privacy.

It, however, lacks in-app security features such as split tunneling, while advanced protocols require manual setup, which inexperienced users might find intimidating. Trust.Zone is indeed affordable but it’s not great for streaming and comes with average speeds.

In the grand scheme of things, Trust.Zone VPN feels unpolished, unfinished, and somewhat rushed. It needs more care from the developer, especially considering that it hasn’t changed in years. Its outdated interface isn’t attractive and with merely a few simultaneous connections, it fails to follow the trends.

For privacy and security, the provider is definitely a good choice that won’t cost you a fortune. However, if you’re after streaming, blazing-fast speeds, polished and good-looking apps, and much more, I’m afraid this choice isn’t the best for you.

I’ll once again remind you of ExpressVPN, which is my #1 alternative to Trust.Zone. With its 49% discount and 3 free months for the annual plan, you can save quite a bit of money and enjoy this superb provider at a reasonable price.

Alternatively, you can go for CyberGhost or NordVPN, pay less, and still get better performance and more security features. All three providers are miles ahead of Trust.Zone, yet, the latter two are priced similarly, making this service pretty much obsolete.