Dormetrics

Dormetrics is a Dutch rental-listing verification service aimed at international students and expats who risk losing deposits to rental scammers during the Netherlands' peak intake season. It is a trade name of DoArt, a Dutch sole proprietorship (eenmanszaak) registered with the Chamber of Commerce (KVK 93987641) in Helmond, Netherlands. The service is built around a simple premise: a good scam does not look like a scam, and the typical loss is the full deposit — one to two months' rent — gone before the first viewing. The core offering is a free risk check. A user pastes a rental listing link or the listing text from anywhere rooms are posted — Kamernet, Pararius, Funda, Facebook, HousingAnywhere — and Dormetrics runs it through layered checks in about 60 seconds. These include scam-script language patterns, the asking price versus a €/m² benchmark for 20 Dutch cities, IBAN and payment-method risks, and behavioural red flags such as no-viewing stories and pressure tactics. The output is which flags fired and why. The site illustrates the pattern with a sample report showing a high-risk listing with a legit score of 12/100, a registry owner mismatch, three pressure patterns, an illegal three-month deposit, and a price far below the area floor. The paid offering is an owner check. For any Dutch address, the Kadaster (land registry) records the owner. The user supplies the name their landlord gave them; Dormetrics runs a fresh Kadaster lookup and emails one answer within 24–48 hours: match or no-match. The company states that it never displays the owner's identity, never stores owner data, and never builds an owner database — data minimisation is described as the design, not an afterthought. Dormetrics positions itself explicitly as a risk signal, not a guarantee. It never says a listing is 'safe', because a scammer can impersonate even a verified, public owner. It does not do reverse searches (name to properties), does not handle money or act as escrow, and leaves the decision to the user. The service is marketed around the August–September rush, when the best rooms get faked fastest. It has been covered by Cursor, the news outlet of Eindhoven University of Technology, under the headline 'Student develops website to detect rental scams'.

Dormetrics is a trade name of DoArt, a Dutch sole proprietorship (eenmanszaak) registered with the Chamber of Commerce (KVK 93987641) in Helmond, Netherlands. The service was built for one reason, according to its own about page: international students and expats lose deposits to rental scammers every intake season, and the verification tools that exist are too slow, too Dutch, or too late. The company's public materials describe a two-part model. The free risk check accepts a listing link or listing text from anywhere rooms are posted — Kamernet, Pararius, Funda, Facebook, HousingAnywhere — and runs layered checks: scam-script language patterns, the asking price versus a €/m² benchmark for 20 Dutch cities, IBAN and payment-method risks, and behavioural red flags such as no-viewing stories and pressure tactics. The output is which flags fired and why, in about 60 seconds, free, with no account and no card required. The paid owner check addresses a different question: who legally owns the address. For any Dutch address, the Kadaster (land registry) records the owner. The user gives Dormetrics the name their landlord gave them; Dormetrics runs a fresh Kadaster lookup and emails one answer within 24–48 hours: match or no-match. The company states that it never displays the owner's identity, never stores owner data, and never builds an owner database, describing data minimisation as the design rather than an afterthought. Dormetrics is explicit about its limits. It never says a listing is 'safe', because a scammer can impersonate even a verified, public owner, so a clean check is a strong signal, not a guarantee. It does not do reverse searches (name to properties), does not handle money or act as escrow, and leaves the decision to the user. The service is marketed around the August–September rush, when the best rooms get faked fastest. The site has been covered by Cursor, the news outlet of Eindhoven University of Technology, under the headline 'Student develops website to detect rental scams' in July 2026. The about page was last updated 24 July 2026.

• Dormetrics is registered as a trade name of DoArt, a Dutch sole proprietorship (eenmanszaak), with the Chamber of Commerce (KVK 93987641) in Helmond, Netherlands.

• Cursor, the news outlet of Eindhoven University of Technology, publishes 'Student develops website to detect rental scams' in July 2026.

• The Dormetrics about and methodology page is last updated on 24 July 2026.

A risk signal, not a guarantee — fast, free, data-minimal rental scam screening for international students and expats in the Netherlands.

• Free rental-listing risk check

  Paste a listing link or listing text from anywhere rooms are posted; layered checks run in about 60 seconds and report which flags fired and why. No account, no card.

• Paid Kadaster owner check

  For any Dutch address, the user supplies the landlord's name; Dormetrics runs a fresh Kadaster lookup and emails one answer within 24–48 hours: match or no-match. Owner identity is never displayed or stored.

1. 1Dutch Rental Scam Check — Verify a Landlord | Dormetricsdormetrics.com
2. 2About Dormetrics — who we are & how the checks workdormetrics.com
3. 3Dormetrics — Wikidatawikidata.org