On RTE news today mention of new website www.scamchecker.ie which appears to have been launched by https://bpfi.ie/ and says it is to check if a website or link is legit.
No, you interpreted a website behaving exactly as the law states it must as suspicious. It's difficult to understand how you might interpret that as being right.
Beyond that I don't know why you might think them using a legitimate 3rd party service provider here is in any way unusual. It's very common to do so as it is a specialised service that the BPFI certainly aren't going to replicate.