Verdict
arte.tv 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 | ARTE public broadcaster site with catalogue listings for films, documentaries, concerts and series; includes newsletter sign-up, corporate links, and social links. Co-funded by the European Union. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- 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 | 22 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 201342 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Corporation Service Company RSA OV SSL CA 2 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2013.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
ARTE is a European culture television service offering free, on-demand access to films, documentaries, concerts, and series, supported by editorial, corporate, social-media, and newsletter features and presented as co-funded by the European Union.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictory scam, phishing, impersonation, or malicious-reputation indicators were observed. The site’s presentation is consistent with a public cultural broadcaster rather than a solicitation-driven or transaction-heavy operation; the observed form is a newsletter sign-up, with no sensitive login form, hidden form, wallet connection, or credential-collection mechanism identified. A superficial automated similarity signal was not corroborated by the page content, which consistently presents ARTE media programming. The overall evidence therefore supports an apparently legitimate, low-risk website, while not independently proving the real-world operator identity.
- Domain registration: registered 2004-04-27 (~22.3 years old), with expiry recorded as 2027-04-27.
- Web-archive record: 42 snapshots spanning 2013–2025 (13 years tracked).
- Homepage and page behavior: content-focused media presentation, one newsletter form, no sensitive form, no wallet activity, and no cloaking or suspicious script indicators.
- External reputation checks: 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no phishing-site result recorded; traffic placement is within the global top 1 million, with rank 5010.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage and corporate/about areas provide an apparent institutional context for ARTE, including the European culture-channel description and an EU co-funding statement. No financial-services license or regulatory registration claim was identified, which is consistent with the site’s stated media and broadcasting purpose rather than evidence of misconduct; the operator’s real-world identity remains likely rather than independently verified. The available evidence is consistent with an established site, and the absence of a broker-related reputational match provides additional contextual reassurance without constituting a legal or licensing determination.
- Hosting telemetry: served from AS396982, Google Cloud Platform / Google LLC, US.
- Transport security: TLS certificate issued by Corporation Service Company RSA OV SSL CA 2, validation level OV, subject organization ASS RELATIVE TELEVISION EUROPEENNE, valid to 2026-12-23.
- About, corporate, and legal navigation: institutional and legal-information routes are present on the site.
- Page-authority telemetry: authority classified in the high band.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, the prospective user should independently confirm that the legal entity identified through the site’s corporate and legal pages corresponds to the intended ARTE service, review applicable service and privacy terms, and confirm that any payment or subscription flow uses the expected provider and offers appropriate payment protection. Official social channels should be reached through the site’s own navigation rather than through unsolicited messages or advertisements.
- Corporate/about pages: available as the primary on-site route for confirming the stated organization and service context.
- Legal-information pages: available for reviewing terms, privacy provisions, and applicable user conditions.
- Social-navigation controls: links are provided to Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, and TikTok for independent channel comparison.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website with a high-trust and low-risk posture. The classification is well supported by converging domain continuity, clean external reputation, substantial public presence, institutional page content, and sound technical controls, although operator identity is not independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by a CDN/WAF arrangement, with observed CDN edge servers and a potential origin candidate. This architecture is a mitigating control that reduces direct exposure of the service infrastructure, but it is not, by itself, proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and routine use are proportionate to the assessed posture, while ordinary independent checks of entity details, service terms, and payment protection should precede credential or payment interactions.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-11 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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 80/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 40% |
- Trusted social count=4
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 arte.tv.
- The request stayed on arte.tv. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Gandi SAS. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by rcode0.net, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-04-27. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-06-29. Clear
- It is hosted on GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Gandi SAS |
|---|---|
| Hosting | GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM - Google LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 34.40.38.97 |
| Name servers | sec1.rcode0.net, sec2.rcode0.net, dns1.sdv.fr, dns2.sdv.fr |
| SSL issuer | Corporation Service Company RSA OV SSL CA 2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-23 |
| Domain age | 22.30 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-04-27 |
| Archive first seen | 2013-06-29 |
| Archive snapshots | 42 |
| 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 arte.tv 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.