Verdict
dailypost.co.uk 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 for North Wales Live (Reach plc) offering local news, sport, weather, opinion and promotional links; cookie consent and a paid ad-free subscription are presented. |
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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 | 29 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 19995000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Amazon RSA 2048 M01 | 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 1999.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is a regional news and local-media platform presented as North Wales Live, offering news, sport, weather, opinion, traffic and travel coverage, promotional content, and an advertising-funded model with an optional paid ad-free subscription associated with Reach plc.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No phishing, impersonation, blacklist, or other contradiction was observed. The homepage presents coherent editorial content rather than an investment, payment, or credential-harvesting proposition; technical interaction testing also found no login form, sensitive form, hidden form, wallet connection, or clipboard-hijacking behavior. External reputation checks were clean, supporting the assessment that the site is apparently legitimate, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
- Homepage: North Wales Live branding and local news, sport, weather, opinion, and promotional content are presented consistently with a regional publisher.
- Homepage interaction: No login form, sensitive form, hidden form, wallet activity, or brand-impersonation indicator was detected.
- Domain history: Registered 1997; age 29.2 years.
- Web archive: 5,000 snapshots spanning 1999-01-17 to 2021-06-09, covering 23 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents Reach plc as the associated publisher and offers advertising, privacy-consent, and subscription arrangements, but that on-site presentation does not independently establish the legal operator. No regulated-service license claim or license number is presented; for a local news publisher, this is a disclosure and verification point rather than evidence of a scam. The registration record identifies CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. as registrar. Transport security is provided through a valid, known-issuer domain-validated certificate, which supports infrastructure integrity but does not prove corporate identity.
- Registration record: Registrar listed as CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
- Hosting record: Served from AS16509, Amazon.com, Inc. (Amazon Data Services).
- TLS certificate: Issued by Amazon RSA 2048 M01, validation level DV, valid to 2027-01-03.
- Homepage and subscription flow: Privacy-consent choices, advertising arrangements, and subscription terms are presented to visitors.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an institution should independently confirm the publisher identity through an authoritative corporate or industry source, review the applicable subscription, privacy, cancellation, and payment-protection terms, and confirm that any contact route used for account or billing matters is an official channel reached independently of the website. For material commercial use, the relevant business counterparty and payment entity should be matched against the contractual documentation before funds are committed.
- Homepage: Subscription and advertising arrangements are disclosed alongside cookie-consent choices.
- Terms and conditions: The subscription arrangement is referenced from the consent and payment experience.
- Independent identity check: The publisher attribution should be confirmed through a separate authoritative source rather than treated as proof from the homepage alone.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture for ordinary browsing and standard site interaction. The classification is strong, while independent confirmation of the real-world operator remains outstanding.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by AWS CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed addressing limited to CDN edge servers and no origin candidate identified in the analysis. This reduces direct origin exposure and is a mitigating technical control, but it should be treated as protection of the service rather than proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal use is proportionate to the observed posture, subject to ordinary independent checks of merchant identity, subscription terms, and payment protections before credentials or payment details are submitted.
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 | 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 dailypost.co.uk.
- The request stayed on dailypost.co.uk. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by org., across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-06-06. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1999-01-17. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | CSC Corporate Domains, Inc |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 52.213.175.235 |
| Name servers | ns-1051.awsdns-03.org., ns-1702.awsdns-20.co.uk., ns-292.awsdns-36.com., ns-999.awsdns-60.net. |
| SSL issuer | Amazon RSA 2048 M01 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-01-03 |
| Domain age | 29.20 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-06 |
| Archive first seen | 1999-01-17 |
| 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 dailypost.co.uk 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.