Verdict
9tv.co.il appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Homepage of 9 Channel, an established Russian-language Israeli news and television outlet covering Israel, international affairs, Ukraine, politics, society, business, health, technology, culture, travel, and sports. The page contains substantial editorial material, frequent advertising placements, Taboola-style native recommendations, and a consent interface disclosing personalized advertising and data processing by many partners. |
|---|
Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | Not availableNo registration record was returned | Noted |
| Web archive | Archived since 20135000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Public web-archive history exists since 2013.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is an established Russian-language Israeli news and television portal presenting current affairs, opinion, and lifestyle coverage, supported primarily by display advertising, native recommendations, and audience-based advertising.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No identity contradictions, impersonation, phishing, malware, or other scam indicators were observed. The homepage contains extensive, coherent editorial material across Israeli and international affairs, Ukraine, politics, society, business, health, technology, culture, travel, and sports. Its longstanding and continuous web presence strongly supports the conclusion that this is an established media property rather than a recently created deceptive site.
- The homepage contained substantial editorial content and no login form, hidden form, sensitive-data form, wallet interaction, clipboard hijacking, or cloaking behavior.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, with no phishing or confirmed malicious-site finding.
- The domain was registered in 2013 and is approximately 13.2 years old.
- Web archives contain 5,000 snapshots from 2013-05-14 through 2025-08-07, representing 13 years of tracked history without detected semantic repurposing.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site operates as an advertising-supported news and television publisher, not as a financial-services or investment platform; consequently, the supplied material does not establish a need for a financial license. The available page analysis identifies About, Contact, and policy sections and reports clear site-ownership cues, although it does not provide the text of a specific legal-entity disclosure. Registration records identify Steve Rekun as the owner and Domain The Net Technologies Ltd as the registrar, with registration maintained through 2028.
- The homepage presents news, opinion, lifestyle, and television content and does not promote deposits, investment returns, or paid financial services as its principal business.
- The site navigation visibly includes About and Contact pages alongside its editorial categories.
- Domain registration records name Steve Rekun as owner, Domain The Net Technologies Ltd as registrar, and 2028-05-30 as the expiration date.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a WE1-issued domain-validated certificate, valid until 2026-10-27.
What to Verify Next
Institutional onboarding may include confirming the publisher’s current legal name and official contact channels through its About, Contact, and policy materials. Privacy review should also assess whether personalized advertising, cross-site processing, and precise-geolocation permissions align with the institution’s data-protection requirements.
- The homepage’s consent interface discloses personalized advertising and data processing involving multiple partners.
- Observed browser disclosures include cookie-consent management, cross-site tracking, and a request for precise geolocation.
- The page uses analytics and advertising-network integrations consistent with its advertising-supported model.
Summary Verdict
The site is a legitimate, established, and trustworthy news publisher. Its durable provenance, coherent editorial identity, clean external reputation, and absence of contradictory or abusive behavior support normal interaction, including account login and standard use where those functions are offered.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Cloudflare’s mainstream CDN/WAF infrastructure. All four observed addresses were Cloudflare edge nodes, so the deployment reduces direct exposure of the origin server; this is a security mitigation rather than independent proof of publisher legitimacy.
- The hosting infrastructure is served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US), with four observed CDN edge addresses and no origin candidate exposed during the analysis.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users may interact with the site normally while applying ordinary privacy preferences appropriate to an advertising-supported news service.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-03 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of 9tv.co.il.
- The request stayed on 9tv.co.il. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Domain The Net Technologies Ltd. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-05-30. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-05-14. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Domain The Net Technologies Ltd |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:10::ac42:926f |
| Name servers | max.ns.cloudflare.com, tara.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-27 |
| Domain age | Not available (no registration date was returned) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-05-30 |
| Archive first seen | 2013-05-14 |
| Archive snapshots | 5000 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about 9tv.co.il at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.