Verdict
ibtimes.co.in 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 | Main page of a mainstream Indian edition of an international business/news outlet (IBTimes India). Contains topical news sections, headlines, and a visible consent/TCF vendor list. Heavy use of ad vendors and trackers; no sign of credential harvesting or financial incentive schemes. |
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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 | Archived since 20065000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV 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 2006.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
IBTimes India is an established online news publisher presenting Indian and international coverage across news, business, technology, science, sports, entertainment, economy, and politics, with an apparent advertising-supported editorial model that includes display advertising, sponsored content, and personalized advertising.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No phishing, credential-harvesting, malicious-content, blacklist, or impersonation contradiction was observed. The homepage contains news content and a consent opt-in rather than a login, password, payment, or investment form, and no financial-incentive scheme was identified. An automated similarity signal associated the page with time.com, but the observed branding, navigation, and editorial content identify the site as IBTimes India; the signal is therefore not corroborated as an impersonation finding. The available evidence supports an apparently legitimate, low-risk publication, while the real-world operator identity remains likely rather than independently verified.
- The homepage is categorized as “News / Media” and contains substantial topical editorial content with no sensitive form or credential-harvesting indicator.
- External reputation checks recorded no malicious or suspicious detections, no phishing warning, and no confirmed blacklist result for the domain.
- The domain was registered on 2005-12-16 and is approximately 20.66 years old; registration records identify the registrar as Sree Jain Infotech dba bookandhost.com and the organization as IBT Media Pvt Ltd.
- Historical records contain 5,000 snapshots across 17 tracked years, from 2006-04-02 through 2022-02-02, supporting continuity rather than suspicious repurposing.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents itself as a news publisher rather than a financial or investment service, so the absence of a financial license claim is not, by itself, evidence of wrongdoing. The analyzed content does not state a license authority or registration number, and independent operator identity is not fully verified; this is a transparency and verification matter rather than an identity contradiction. Advertising, sponsored-content, and personalized-advertising practices make privacy, consent, and editorial-commercial separation the relevant governance considerations. A separate broker-reputation dataset produced no match, which is contextual reassurance but not a legal or licensing determination.
- The homepage describes news, business, technology, science, sports, and entertainment coverage and does not make a regulated-financial-service claim.
- The site’s hosting resolves through AS396982, Google Cloud Platform / Google LLC, US.
- The transport certificate is Domain Validated, issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, and valid through 2026-10-30.
- The site’s consent interface identifies an IAB TCF consent-management framework and vendor-list functionality for advertising and tracking relationships.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an organization should independently confirm the publisher’s current legal operator through official corporate or publisher records and compare that identity with the site’s own legal and contact disclosures. Contact channels should be cross-checked through independently sourced official social or corporate channels, and privacy, consent, advertising, and sponsored-content terms should be reviewed before any data-sharing decision. Any commercial transaction associated with third-party advertising should be assessed under normal merchant-identity, return-policy, and payment-protection controls.
- The homepage links to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and RSS properties that can be compared against independently sourced official accounts.
- The analyzed page contains one consent opt-in form and no sensitive submission form, making privacy and consent review the principal user-data check.
- The site is presented as a content publisher with advertising and sponsored-content monetization, so commercial offers encountered through advertising should be assessed separately from the publisher’s editorial service.
Summary Verdict
The available evidence supports a high-trust, low-risk posture consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. No scam or impersonation contradictions were observed, although the available evidence does not independently prove the real-world operator identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is hosted on Google Cloud Platform in the United States and resolves to a single identified address rather than a detected CDN edge network. Google’s mainstream hosting environment and the valid Sectigo TLS certificate provide sound transport and infrastructure context, but infrastructure quality is appropriately treated as a mitigating signal rather than proof of ownership or legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing is proportionate to the assessed posture; before submitting credentials or making payments, ordinary independent checks of publisher identity, applicable policies, and payment protections should be completed.
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 | 76/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 76% |
- Trusted social count=2
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 ibtimes.co.in.
- The request stayed on ibtimes.co.in. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Sree Jain Infotech dba bookandhost.com. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by googledomains.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2030-12-16. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2006-04-02. Clear
- It is hosted on GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Sree Jain Infotech dba bookandhost.com |
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| Hosting | GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM - Google LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 130.211.30.107 |
| Name servers | ns-cloud-d2.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-d4.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-d1.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-d3.googledomains.com |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-30 |
| Domain age | 20.66 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2030-12-16 |
| Archive first seen | 2006-04-02 |
| 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 ibtimes.co.in 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.