Verdict
brisbanetimes.com.au 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 | Regional news homepage with extensive journalism content, ad slots, subscription and account links, and navigation to multiple sections (politics, business, sport, lifestyle). |
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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% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 3 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 19 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20075000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36 | 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 2007.
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
Full analysis
Overview
Brisbane Times is a regional news and media website presenting journalism on Brisbane, Queensland, national and international affairs, business, sport, lifestyle, travel, and culture. Its apparent business model is advertising-supported free access supplemented by paid reader subscriptions and subscriber account services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed across the available evidence: there were no phishing, impersonation, malicious-reputation, blacklist, or conflicting-identity indicators. The site's substantial news content, consistent publishing purpose, established public presence, and linked social channels are aligned with a genuine media operation. Three abuse reports were associated with a shared Fastly content-delivery address, but that signal was explicitly attributed to shared infrastructure, had zero confidence, and was not treated as evidence against the website itself.
- Historical captures identify Brisbane Times as a news publisher, with no suspicious repurposing or material change in core purpose.
- The domain is approximately 19.47 years old; its first recorded historical capture was 2007-02-22.
- Historical coverage comprises 5,000 snapshots across 9 tracked years, from 2007 through 2015.
- The homepage contains extensive journalism and section navigation, with no detected phishing indicators, hidden forms, or brand-impersonation signals.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website presents an apparently established publishing operation rather than a service making regulated financial or investment claims. No licensing claim or registration number is evidenced in the supplied site material; for this type of publisher, that is a disclosure and verification consideration rather than an indication of deception. The available technical records associate the domain with Corporation Service Company (Aust) Pty Ltd as registrar and Fairfax Metro Pty Limited as the recorded owner, while the transport certificate identifies NINE ENTERTAINMENT CO. HOLDINGS LIMITED as its subject organisation. These records provide supporting organizational context, but the real-world operator identity remains likely rather than independently verified. No matching broker-reputation record was identified.
- The homepage identifies the service as Brisbane Times and provides navigation to news, business, politics, sport, lifestyle, and related sections.
- Domain registration uses Corporation Service Company (Aust) Pty Ltd; the recorded owner is Fairfax Metro Pty Limited.
- The site's hosting network is Fastly, Inc.; its TLS certificate is issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36 with OV validation and is valid to 2027-01-03.
- The certificate subject organisation is NINE ENTERTAINMENT CO. HOLDINGS LIMITED.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an enterprise or consumer should independently confirm the merchant or subscription counterparty, review the applicable subscription, cancellation, and refund terms, and ensure that payment protections are available through the selected payment method. Official support and contact channels should be confirmed through an independently sourced route, and any account-recovery or payment request should be checked against the service's normal workflow.
- The homepage provides separate links for subscription access and account login, establishing that credential and payment-related interactions may occur.
- The homepage links to social profiles on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, providing channels that can be compared with independently sourced official profiles.
- Automated page analysis found no sensitive form, external password form, wallet interaction, or clipboard-hijacking behavior during the observed sessions.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture for its stated publishing function. The convergence of long-term continuity, substantial page content, clean external reputation, and sound transport security is strong, while the operator identity should remain described as likely rather than proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Fastly CDN/WAF infrastructure. All four observed addresses were CDN edge servers in AS54113, with no origin candidate identified; the confirmed technical endpoint was 151.101.2.133 in the United States. This architecture is a mitigating control that reduces direct origin exposure, but it is not, by itself, proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and ordinary subscription or account activity are proportionate to the assessed posture, subject to the routine independent identity, terms, and payment-protection checks appropriate for any online service.
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.
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 3 reports on hosting IP 151.101.66.133 (Fastly, Inc., Content Delivery Network), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- Trusted social count=3
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 brisbanetimes.com.au.
- The request stayed on brisbanetimes.com.au. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Corporation Service Company (Aust) Pty Ltd. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by awsdns-25.org, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2007-02-22. Clear
- It is hosted on FASTLY, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Corporation Service Company (Aust) Pty Ltd |
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| Hosting | FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 151.101.66.133 |
| Name servers | ns-1230.awsdns-25.org, ns-1898.awsdns-45.co.uk, ns-470.awsdns-58.com, ns-596.awsdns-10.net |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-01-03 |
| Domain age | 19.47 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2007-02-22 |
| Archive snapshots | 5000 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 3 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about brisbanetimes.com.au 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.