Verdict
ibtimes.sg 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 | Homepage for the Singapore edition of International Business Times, featuring international news, politics, business, technology, sports, entertainment, science, and opinion content. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | 11 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| 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).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
International Business Times Singapore is an established digital news publisher presenting international reporting, analysis, and coverage across business, technology, politics, sports, entertainment, science, lifestyle, and opinion, with a business model based on advertising, sponsorship, syndication, and audience engagement.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage behaves as a conventional news and media publication, with substantive editorial content, no login or sensitive-data form, no wallet interaction, and no detected phishing or high-risk transaction mechanism. External reputation checks were clean, supporting the conclusion that the site is legitimate rather than an impersonation or abuse-oriented property.
- The homepage identifies the Singapore edition of International Business Times and provides substantial reporting across multiple editorial categories.
- The homepage contains no login form, hidden form, password submission, or wallet-connection activity.
- External checks recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, with no blacklist or phishing finding.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site's apparent role is media publishing rather than a regulated financial service. Its content describes editorial, policy, contact, corporate, advertising, and audience-engagement functions; no financial license claim is presented. This is a scope and disclosure point, not evidence of deception. The domain and transport infrastructure provide additional signs of an established web presence.
- The domain was registered on 2015-10-21 and is approximately 10.79 years old; the registrar is Key-Systems GmbH.
- The site is served from AS396982, Google Cloud Platform, Google LLC, United States.
- TLS uses a DV certificate issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, valid through 2026-10-31.
- The site’s content presents editorial, policy, contact, corporate, and advertising information.
What to Verify Next
For formal institutional engagement, confirm the relevant publishing or commercial counterpart through the site’s corporate and contact information, and apply standard vendor onboarding and content-use checks. If a transaction involves a separately regulated service promoted through the site, verify that service independently with the applicable regulator.
- The homepage provides navigation for regional editions and distinct editorial sections, supporting separation between publishing content and any external commercial engagement.
- The site links to established social platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- The publisher’s stated model centers on advertising, sponsorship, syndication, and audience engagement.
Summary Verdict
The site has a high-trust posture and reads as a legitimate, established news publisher. The available evidence supports normal interaction, including account login where applicable and standard use, without indicators of impersonation, phishing, or abusive intent.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to Google Cloud infrastructure with one identified address and no detected CDN or edge-IP layer. This is a straightforward hosting posture; the infrastructure context is a mitigating technical signal, not independent proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing, login, and standard use are appropriate, with ordinary enterprise onboarding controls retained for formal commercial relationships.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-03 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.sg.
- The request stayed on ibtimes.sg. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Key-Systems GmbH. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by googledomains.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-21. Noted
- It is hosted on GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Key-Systems GmbH |
|---|---|
| Hosting | GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM - Google LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 34.117.233.204 |
| Name servers | ns-cloud-d1.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-d2.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-d3.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-d4.googledomains.com |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-31 |
| Domain age | 10.8 years |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-21 |
| 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 ibtimes.sg 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.