Verdict
france.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 | France Télévisions streaming portal with live channels and on-demand catalog. Includes cookie consent UI describing trackers, partners, and marketing identifiers (Utiq). Content lists many programs and categories; no signs of credential harvesting or financial solicitation. |
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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 | 16 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | 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
France TV is a public-broadcaster streaming portal presenting live television channels, replay programming, and an on-demand catalogue across genres such as documentaries, cinema, series, and sport; its apparent business model is advertising- and partnership-supported media distribution.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent media-streaming purpose, with no evidence of credential harvesting, financial solicitation, wallet interaction, brand impersonation, or phishing. Observed changes and external communications during interaction are consistent with consent, advertising, and analytics functionality rather than an abuse pattern. Available external reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious detections, supporting a low scam/impersonation risk assessment. The domain is long-established and has a top-tier global traffic footprint, although the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
- Homepage: presents live and replay television content and contains no sensitive credential form or financial solicitation.
- Interaction behavior: no hidden forms, password-exfiltration forms, wallet-provider activity, clipboard manipulation, or cloaking was detected; consent and tracking interactions accounted for the observed page changes.
- External reputation: malicious detections 0, suspicious detections 0, and phishing-status result false; traffic rank 9314.
- Domain registration: registered 2010-05-01 (~16.29 years old).
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available content is consistent with a public broadcaster rather than a financial or investment service. Its privacy and cookie notice explains the use of trackers, advertising partners, personalized advertising, and the Utiq marketing-identifier technology, with mechanisms to refuse or manage consent. No financial-service licence or licence number is claimed in the reviewed content; for this business model, that is a disclosure point for ordinary diligence rather than evidence of deception. The page identifies France Télévisions and France Télévisions Publicité, while registration records associate the organization with France Televisions; the independently verified linkage between the website and the real-world operator remains incomplete. A third-party broker-data check produced no match and should be treated only as contextual reputation information.
- Cookie/privacy notice: describes tracking of browsing and account-related data for audience measurement, personalization, analytics, and advertising, including Utiq.
- Registration record: registrar Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA; organization France Televisions; registrant details privacy-protected.
- Hosting and transport: served on AS20940, AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL; TLS certificate issued by YR2, DV validation, valid to 2026-11-01T02:11:59+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, independently confirm that the intended service is operated by the relevant public-service entity through an official, offline or independently sourced channel. Review the applicable privacy, account, subscription, and refund terms on the site, and confirm that any payment flow uses an expected provider with appropriate payment protections. Where a jurisdiction-specific media or subscription authorization is relevant, validate it through the responsible official register rather than relying solely on on-page claims.
- Identity verification: the available evidence does not independently establish the website’s real-world operator linkage.
- Site privacy controls: the homepage provides pathways to configure, refuse, or later change tracking consent.
- Payment diligence: no financial solicitation or sensitive payment form was observed on the reviewed homepage, so any later payment workflow should be assessed separately.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, and the available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. The conclusion supports normal browsing and ordinary service use, while the operator’s real-world identity should remain treated as unverified rather than proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Akamai CDN/WAF infrastructure, with all observed addresses belonging to CDN edge servers and no origin candidate observed. This is a meaningful exposure-mitigation measure, but protective infrastructure alone is not proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Credential or payment interactions should proceed only after the ordinary independent checks of operator identity, applicable terms, and payment protections have been completed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-10 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 | 25% |
- 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 france.tv.
- The request stayed on france.tv. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by akam.net, across 6 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-05-01. Noted
- It is hosted on AKAMAI-ASN1, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA |
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| Hosting | AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2a02:26f0:e80:7f::17d8:869b |
| Name servers | a3-66.akam.net, a22-65.akam.net, a13-67.akam.net, a8-67.akam.net, a14-64.akam.net, a1-242.akam.net |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-01 |
| Domain age | 16.29 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-05-01 |
| 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 france.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.