Verdict
championat.com 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 | Russian-language sports news portal covering football, hockey, tennis, live scores, and Olympics content. Appears to be a mainstream editorial site with advertising and mobile app presence; no signs of high-risk financial services or credential-harvesting elements. |
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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 | 21 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020 | 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).
- 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
This is a Russian-language sports news portal presenting football, hockey, tennis, live scores, Olympic coverage, and related sports media. Its apparent business model is mainstream editorial publishing supported by advertising, promotional placements, and mobile application distribution rather than financial services or user-deposit activity.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents coherent sports-media content, with no detected brand impersonation, phishing indicators, credential-harvesting forms, wallet activity, or high-risk financial-service mechanics. External reputation checks were clean, and the site's strong audience footprint is consistent with an established media property. The elevated volume of external requests and some non-standard network activity are reasonably attributable to advertising, analytics, and media-site integrations; they were not accompanied by cloaking, hidden forms, clipboard manipulation, or wallet-draining behavior.
- The homepage identifies the service as a sports-news publication covering football, hockey, tennis, live scores, and the Olympics.
- The homepage contained no sensitive forms, external password forms, hidden forms, or detected login-harvesting behavior.
- Reputation checks recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, with no phishing or impersonation finding.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site's apparent function is editorial sports publishing, so the reviewed content does not indicate a regulated financial or investment service requiring the type of licensing disclosure associated with those activities. No licensing claim or registration number was presented in the reviewed site content; this is a transparency item rather than evidence of a scam. The public registration record lists LLC “SIM” and the registrar Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER, but the available evidence does not independently verify that registrant as the real-world operator of the publication. A separate broker-oriented reputation dataset produced no match, which is contextual only and not a legal or regulatory determination.
- Registration records show the domain was created on 2005-07-25 and identify LLC “SIM” as the registrant organization.
- The homepage describes an advertising-supported news and media model and shows no financial product, deposit, investment, or broker-service offering.
- The reviewed content contains no stated license authority or license number.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an enterprise or consumer should independently confirm the operator’s identity against the publication’s official corporate or legal information, review the applicable terms and privacy disclosures, and confirm any relevant licensing position with the competent registry if the interaction extends beyond ordinary editorial use. Contact channels should be confirmed through an independently sourced official route, and payment-protection and return terms should be checked where a commercial transaction is involved.
- The homepage presents editorial news and media functions rather than a regulated transaction service.
- The registration record provides a named registrant organization and registrar for comparison during independent identity verification.
- The reviewed page shows no sensitive transaction form, so any later request for payment or credentials should be assessed against the site’s independently confirmed purpose.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website with a high-trust, low-risk posture and no observed scam or impersonation contradictions. The convergence of long-term domain continuity, substantial audience presence, clean reputation, substantive editorial content, and sound transport security supports normal browsing and ordinary site use, while the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves through RAMBLER-TELECOM-AS, operated by Rambler Internet Holding LLC in Russia, with no detected CDN or WAF vendor and three likely origin addresses. Direct hosting is not inherently adverse; the identified infrastructure is a mitigating technical signal when considered alongside the site’s clean behavioral and reputation results.
- Hosted on AS24638, RAMBLER-TELECOM-AS – Rambler Internet Holding LLC, RU.
- TLS uses GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020 with DV validation, valid to 2027-02-14.
- Infrastructure resolution identified 3 unique IP addresses, 0 edge IP addresses, and 3 likely origin IP addresses.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary independent identity, terms, and payment-protection checks should precede credential submission or any payment interaction, particularly where the activity extends beyond routine consumption of the site’s editorial content.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-13 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 championat.com.
- The request stayed on championat.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by rambler.ru, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-07-25. Noted
- It is hosted on RAMBLER-TELECOM-AS, from a server in RU. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER |
|---|---|
| Hosting | RAMBLER-TELECOM-AS - Rambler Internet Holding LLC, RU |
| Country | RU |
| Server IP | 81.19.86.0 |
| Name servers | NS2.RAMBLER.RU, NS3.RAMBLER.RU, NS4.RAMBLER.RU, NS5.RAMBLER.RU |
| SSL issuer | GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-02-14 |
| Domain age | 21.06 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-07-25 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| 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 championat.com 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.